Re: get an alert when a mail arrives from certain addresses

[Eric S Fraga]

On Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 at 05:39, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> So I guess I will have to investigate in fetchmail and/or procmail...

Also have a look at mailfilter in lieu of procmail.

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Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

[prueba]

El 2019-11-22 16:41, Brian escribió:

Try this for the kernel boot options:

 "iso-scan/filename=$iso_path priority=low"

In other words, replace two of the options with iso-scan/filename=. It
works for me when the ISO, vmlinuz and initrd.gz are all in /boot.


This
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841135
would explain why it works for you, as well as in other cases.

It seems to only work at maximum level 1 directories; further, as in my 
case, no longer works.

Pity...

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

[Brian]

On Sat 23 Nov 2019 at 11:00:58 -0600, pru...@finsakxim.com.mx wrote:

> El 2019-11-22 16:41, Brian escribió:
> > Try this for the kernel boot options:
> > 
> >  "iso-scan/filename=$iso_path priority=low"
> > 
> > In other words, replace two of the options with iso-scan/filename=. It
> > works for me when the ISO, vmlinuz and initrd.gz are all in /boot.
> 
> This
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841135
> would explain why it works for you, as well as in other cases.
> 
> It seems to only work at maximum level 1 directories; further, as in my
> case, no longer works.
> Pity...

Thank you for the link. I had not seen this report before. One bit of it
is the statement:

 > From what I understand now, iso-scan is not meant to use
 > any iso filename supplied to it via grub command line, but
 > it rather prefers to scan the USB stick for usable images
 > itself, and then present the user with a menu.

My understanding is that iso-scan/filename= simply says which ISO is to
be searched for. But, additionally, iso-scan needs to be told where to
search by being informed of the device or partition to use or by getting
it to look at every device/partition on the system or by extra kernel
command line options.

I put two Debian ISOs in /boot/iso and had a similar grub.cfg to yours:

  iso_path=/boot/iso/debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso
  export iso_path
  search --set=root --file "$iso_path"
  loopback loop "$iso_path"
  menuentry "Test" {
 linux /boot/vmlinuz  iso-scan/filename=$iso_path priority=low
 initrd /boot/initrd.gz
  }

I get a list of sixteen partitions and devices and choose the one that I
know holds the ISOs (/dev/sdg1). This comes up with (as it did for you):

 > The quick scan for installer ISO images, which looks only
 > in common places

But a full disk search immediately scans /dev/sdg1 and presents a choice
between the two ISOs.

If our experience differs, I cannot explain why.

-- 
Brian.

Re: get an alert when a mail arrives from certain addresses

[Brian]

On Sat 23 Nov 2019 at 12:03:25 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 at 05:39, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> > So I guess I will have to investigate in fetchmail and/or procmail...
> 
> Also have a look at mailfilter in lieu of procmail.

Why? They do different things.

-- 
Brian.

Re: get an alert when a mail arrives from certain addresses

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 23 November 2019 15:39:28 Brian wrote:

> On Sat 23 Nov 2019 at 12:03:25 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > On Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 at 05:39, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> > > So I guess I will have to investigate in fetchmail and/or
> > > procmail...
> >
> > Also have a look at mailfilter in lieu of procmail.
>
> Why? They do different things.

And mailfilter will soon be overwhelmed due to the maximum size of its 
reject file.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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