Re: [OT] Sendmail help

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Calber Chainy wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I have problems with sendmail.  I searched for a forum, mail list or
> some other help where I can ask some questions but failed.
> 
> Does anyone know of any list, forum or something like it about sendmail?

 From the sendmail faq:

Q2.1 -- What is this newsgroup?

   Date: May 28, 1996

   The Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail is dedicated to the discussion
   of the program named "sendmail" in all its various forms. It is most
   commonly found on computers running a flavor of the Operating System
   known as Unix, or derived from Unix.

Q2.4 -- How do I access comp.mail.sendmail by email?

   Date: November 24, 1996

   Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "sub
   comp-news.comp.mail.sendmail full-US-ordered-email-address" as the
   body of the message (with your correct address in place of the
   "full-US-ordered-email-address", and omitting the double quotes in all
   cases of this example).

   E-mail you want posted on comp.mail.sendmail should be sent to
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> When my server receives a mail from anyone to the adress
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to send a mail back telling this person that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] will disappear and will be
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Is there a procedure, configuration file, script or all mixed together
> that allows me to do this?

Also from sendmail faq:

Q4.2 -- How can I set up an auto-responder?

   Date: March 23, 1996
   Updated: February 16, 1999

   This is a local mailer issue, not a sendmail issue. Depending on what
   you're doing, look at procmail (see Q4.9), ftpmail, or Majordomo.

   The latest version of Majordomo can be found at
   ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo/. It is written in Perl and
   requires either Perl 4.036, and appears to run with only minor tweaks
   under 5.001a or later. Make sure to check out the web interface for
   Majordomo called LWGate at
   http://www.netspace.org/users/dwb/lwgate.html. The latest versions of
   Perl (both 4.x and 5.x) can be found in
   http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/src/. More information about Perl can
   be found at http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html

   The latest version of ftpmail can be found at
   ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ftpmail or any comp.sources.misc
   archive (volume 37).


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Re: [OT] Sendmail help

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Calber Chainy wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I have problems with sendmail.  I searched for a forum, mail list or
> some other help where I can ask some questions but failed.
> 
> Does anyone know of any list, forum or something like it about sendmail?

 From the sendmail faq:

Q2.1 -- What is this newsgroup?

   Date: May 28, 1996

   The Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail is dedicated to the discussion
   of the program named "sendmail" in all its various forms. It is most
   commonly found on computers running a flavor of the Operating System
   known as Unix, or derived from Unix.

Q2.4 -- How do I access comp.mail.sendmail by email?

   Date: November 24, 1996

   Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "sub
   comp-news.comp.mail.sendmail full-US-ordered-email-address" as the
   body of the message (with your correct address in place of the
   "full-US-ordered-email-address", and omitting the double quotes in all
   cases of this example).

   E-mail you want posted on comp.mail.sendmail should be sent to
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> When my server receives a mail from anyone to the adress
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to send a mail back telling this person that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] will disappear and will be
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Is there a procedure, configuration file, script or all mixed together
> that allows me to do this?

Also from sendmail faq:

Q4.2 -- How can I set up an auto-responder?

   Date: March 23, 1996
   Updated: February 16, 1999

   This is a local mailer issue, not a sendmail issue. Depending on what
   you're doing, look at procmail (see Q4.9), ftpmail, or Majordomo.

   The latest version of Majordomo can be found at
   ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo/. It is written in Perl and
   requires either Perl 4.036, and appears to run with only minor tweaks
   under 5.001a or later. Make sure to check out the web interface for
   Majordomo called LWGate at
   http://www.netspace.org/users/dwb/lwgate.html. The latest versions of
   Perl (both 4.x and 5.x) can be found in
   http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/src/. More information about Perl can
   be found at http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html

   The latest version of ftpmail can be found at
   ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ftpmail or any comp.sources.misc
   archive (volume 37).


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Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Satish Iyer wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After following 
> the directions (from the howto's and faq's) I am still unable to get it functioning.
> 
> I tried with PAP as well as CHAP.
> 
> An error is returned from the [chat] section as Incorrect Input/Output parameters : 
> I/O Error.

Seems your modem is not recognized

 
> Also, how do I get it to read my modem correctly?
> 
> How do I rectify the error. Else, is there a more detailed FAQ / help for the same?

What kind of modem you are using?

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Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Ian Melnick wrote:

> Hello, all
> 
> Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the
> resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode?
> 

I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf:

# Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, )
#
# vga=ask
# vga=9
# vga=normal
vga=791

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Re: User dialup access

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote:

> I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup
> priveledges from debian.  I use wvdial to connect as root. 
> I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME.  The user can
> successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started
> it exits with error code #2.  From man pppd this code
> corresponds to mutually exclusive options being passed to
> pppd.  Doesn't really make sense to me since root probably
> passes the same options to pppd when using wvdial
> successfully.  Finally, I have pppd setuid as per the pppd
> docs.
> 
> What is missing here?

Try in /etc/sudoers:

userwithnoname  ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wvdial


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Re: Some kernel compile questions

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2003, Sukrit wrote:

> 
> hi listers,
> 
> i have some kernel related questions, i have read the fine manunal
> (kernel-howto) but didn't get answers to these.
> 
> 1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is
> to be edited? (i am thinking that i'll compile support for lots of
> devices - cd-writer, different network cards - as modules that way i
> won't have to recompile kernel when i add those devices. So i don't
> want all my modules to be loaded at boot time. Also, i don't want to
> dynamically and automatically load/unload modules)
[...]

I only can recommend the debian way like it is described in 
"Debian reference" by Osamu Aoki

[...]
# apt-get install debhelper modutils kernel-package libncurses5-dev
# apt-get install kernel-source-<2.4.18>   # use latest version
# vi /etc/kernel-pkg.conf# input my name and email
$ cd /usr/src# build directory
$ tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-<2.4.18>.tar.bz2
$ cd kernel-source-<2.4.18># if this is your kernel source
$ rm -rf */pcmcia
# [OPTIONAL] if one wants to use modules from pcmcia-cs or no pcmcia
$ cp /boot/config-<2.4.18-386> .config # get current config as default
$ make menuconfig# customize as one wishes
$ make-kpkg clean# must run (per: man make-kpkg)
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -<486> --initrd \
--revision= kernel_image \
modules_image # modules_image is for pcmcia-cs* etc.
$ cd ..
# dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb pcmcia-cs*.deb # install
[...]

For the make menuconfig startup I recommend to copy the config file of a
debian standard kernel from /boot/config to /usr/src/linux and loading it.

Then go through all the single points and decide for yourself which parts
should be compiled as modules and which should be compiled in the kernel.
It is a long way but you learn a lot.

Afterwards you can run modconf to load the modules you need (the kernel error
messages will tell you)

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Re: sendmail upgrade: SMTP_AUTH + version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading sendmail because of the sendmail bug, some things with 
> SMTP_AUTH and TLS go strange: I get a "self signed certificate" when 
> sending a mail from my client-sendmail through the relay-sendmail. 
> Before upgrading, everything worked fine with this configuration:
> 
> The client-sendmails config:
> 
> /etc/mail/mailertable
> [...]
> aol.com relay:[199.10.14.2]
> [...]
> 
> /etc/mail/access:
> AuthInfo:199.10.14.2 "U:user" "P:password"
> 
> sendmail.mc:
> define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl

Try using the feature:

FEATURE(`authinfo')
and the auth-info file ... that worked for me.

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Re: sendmail upgrade: SMTP_AUTH + version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:

> Marcus Schopen wrote:
> After upgrading sendmail Debian's sendmail maintainer set pwcheck_method 
> to PAM in /etc/mail/sasl/Sendmail.conf instead of leaving my 
> "pwcheck_method: sasldb" configuration untouched. :-/
> 
> Marcus

Uh ... ;-(
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Re: Cannot load initrd with kernel 2.4.20

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kurt Huwig wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Using Woody and a vanilla 2.4.20, I cannot boot with an initial ramdisk.
> The kernel was built by
> 
> make-kpkg --initrd --config menuconfig --append-to-version -fwrs
> kernel_image
> 

Did you have this in your kernel-config file:

# Additional Block Devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y


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Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

> I'm missing something.  What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20
> kernel?  That's what comes as the default in woody and I want to tweak
> it.  I can find headers, patches (what good are patches w/out source
> to patch?), ReiserFS and PCMCIA modules, but no source.  What gives?
> 
> Jeffrey
> 
> 

apt-cache showpkg kernel-source-2.2.20:

Package: kernel-source-2.2.20
Versions: 
2.2.20-5(/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.0%20r0%20%5fWoody%5f%20-%20Unofficial%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20020721)_dists_woody-secured_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Reverse Depends: 
  ibcs-source-2.2,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-tekram-dc3x5,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-ext3-2.2,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-ethernet-drivers,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-2.2.20-powerpc,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-2.2.20-m68k,kernel-source-2.2.20
  kernel-patch-2.2.20-arm,kernel-source-2.2.20
Dependencies: 
2.2.20-5 - binutils (0 (null)) bzip2 (0 (null)) fileutils (2 4.0) libncurses-dev (16 
(null)) ncurses-dev (0 (null)) kernel-package (0 (null)) bin86 (0 (null)) libc-dev (0 
(null)) gcc (0 (null)) make (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
2.2.20-5 - kernel-source-2.2 kernel-source 
Reverse Provides: 


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Re: Unresolved symbols in ... & alsa

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Egor Tur wrote:

> Hi folk.
> I compile alsa module and try install it.
> When I do
> dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.20_0.9.0rc7-2_i386.deb
> I have:
> Configuration file for ALSA 0.9 exists.
> Attempting to start.
> 
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-emu10k1-synth.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-emu8000-synth.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-emux-synth.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-gus-synth.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-trident-synth.o
> 
> What do these means?
> dpkg cannot configure package, but package install on my systems & I use alsa & it 
> works fine.
> 
> Thanx.

What kernel-version are you running?
Is it 2.4.16 - then you are using the wrong alsa-module-version.

Alsa is searching for this modules but cannot find them in your actual
kernel-configuration.
If you compiled this sound-modules as modules in your kernel try to load
them via e.g modconf but I think you have to compile them into the kernel
not as modules.

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Searching a good inn2 HOWTO

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,
can somone point me to a good inn2 HOWTO.
I am running leafnode and want to change to inn2.

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Re: Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Christopher Swingley wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual 
> (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)?

1) Running mutt and typing F1.
2) vim /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
3) gunzip /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz and then less
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt

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Re: how to change beep noise

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote:

> Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise
> it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very
> loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is
> there an alteration I can make within debian to change/disable this noise?
> 

I use setterm -blength to disable the bell/beep.

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Re: default login manager

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:

> hi there:
> 
> I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable.
> However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the
> default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to
> kdm?

1) Install kdm
2) dpkg-reconfigure kdm
3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove
4) update-rc.d kdm defaults

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Re: default login manager

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote:

> Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove
> 
> This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a
> security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for
> xdm, conclude that the package was never installed, and recreate the
> links, leaving you back where you started.  You need to make sure that
> at least one link is left behind (like the K links in runlevels 0 and
> 6) so this doesn't happen.

So from my point of view this behavior is a bug isn't it?

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Re: Sendmail's host status cacheing (HostStatusDirectory)

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it just me and my Sendmail (the one in stable), or does it seem to 
> cache rather aggressively the host status of other mail relays?
> 
> We've got an intermediate SMTP relay that relays down to clients, and a 
> client's SMTP server blew up and was repaired at 2pm, and at 5pm, our 
> Sendmail was still considering it to be down, purely because of what was 
> in the HostStatusDirectory.
> 
> I notice that the Sendmail default is to have this switched off, however 
> the Debian default is to turn it on. Would the Sendmail maintainer like to 
> comment on the efficacy of this option, and indeed the rationale behind 
> enabling at the default?

Hi,

I had difficulties with this option too and because of the fact that
I do not need I disabled it.

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debian-pkg kernel-patch debianlogo was Re: (half-solved) Re: Compiling kernel with patches

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003, Christophe Courtois wrote:

Hi all,

late but ... I tried to install the debian package called
kernel-patch-debianlogo and after I searched the archives for a solution to
the install problems I found your email. Thanx!

> - I had a PATCH_KERNEL=YES in my compilation script, instead of
> PATCH_THE_KERNEL
> - Anyway, it did not work anymore, whatever the value of --added-patches
> on the command line.
> - The debianlogo patch can be applied and un-applied without any problem,
> and it compiles. (For some unknown reason, sometimes it failed, when
> applying or unapplying... I had to re-untar the source to reverse the
> patch)
>  - The 'right' solution is to add 'patch_the_kernel=YES' in
> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf. Now the patch is automatically unapplied in a
> 'make-kpkg clean', and applied when compiling.

O.K., after a lot of testing I found out how to install a kernel-patch the
right way.
Here is what I did:

install the kernel-source-2.2.20.tar.bz2
install the kernel-patch-debianlogo
tar xvfj kernel-source-2.2.20.tar.bz2
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/ /usr/src/linux
cd /usr/src/linux

Regrading man make-kpkg and /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.2.20/debian.README.gz
you have to add "patch_the_kernel=YES" in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf

Now run:

fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 --config=menuconfig kernel_image

and the patch will be included.

>  The real question for me is why '--added-patches=debianlogo' is not
> enough. Is it some typo too obvious to be seen ?

The --added-patches option is set to give you the chance to choose a
special/single patch if there are existing more of them


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Re: debian-pkg kernel-patch debianlogo was Re: (half-solved) Re: Compiling kernel with patches

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote:

> y$Now i simply extract the debianlogo and do a patch -p1 in the kernel source.

Thanx ...

1) Now i simply extract the debianlogo and do a patch -p1 in the kernel source.

2) $ PATCH_THE_KERNEL=3DYES fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=3D3:custom.1.0
--config=3Dmenuconfig kernel_image

3) fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 --config=menuconfig kernel_image


... why are these suggestions/solutions/instructions not added to the
package-documentation? I think it is not clearly explained.

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Re: Unidentified subject!

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rthoreau wrote:

> Dear:  Julia or cuddly_kitten1956 
> 
> By all means please add your name and card numbers for cross reference; 
> a phone number won't hurt either.
> 
> I can only wonder what in the world this got posted, guess I will whois 
> her butt and send in a abuse report.  Maybe next time she will post her 
> vital info so it wil be worth my time, those new AMD 64 boards look 
> good.


HaHaHa ... that was a great one ... gave me a good start in the morning when
I read it!

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ppp, fetchmail and sendmail with timeout problems

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,

I am using ppp, fetchmail, sendmail to get my mails from my email account. I
am dialing in (Freenet) via ppp and namserver-method dynamic-dans within
ppp.

The problem is:
I boot up my maschine, dial in and fetch my emails. Everything works fine. I
do poff, read emails in mutt and write new ones.
Then I do a pon Freenet again, try to fetch new emails and get after 5 or 6
minutes a timeout from fetchmail. Sam thing on the sendmail site (sending
mail): mails is being refused to be sent with:

MDeferred: Connection timed out with mail.mail.mail.

After rebooting the maschine everything works fine again - except doing pon
Freenet a secound time (like described above).

I have no clue what it is or where else to look at.

Can anybody give me a hint?


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Re: sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vivek Kumar wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> I am using sendmail for my mails. I was told that if i want to use
> spamassassin and redirect the rejected mail to some user account (like
> spam user) I need to use procmail.
> I installed procmail but I don't understand that can i use this for
> entire domain or procmail is only good for one user as when i was trying
> to configure it, it talked about .forward file and .procmailrc file in
> the user home directory.
> What i want it to do is install spamassassin and send all the rejected
> mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. (.xxx could be a noewly created
> email address).

 From /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README you get:

[...]

4. If you already use procmail, skip to step 6.  If not, ensure procmail
is installed using "which procmail" or install it from www.procmail.org.

5. Create a .forward file in your HOME DIRECTORY containing the below
lines:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user"

6. Edit or create a .procmailrc file in your HOME DIRECTORY containing
the below lines.  If you already have a .procmailrc file, add the lines
to the top of your .procmailrc file:

:0fw
| /home/user/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c /home/user/bin/SpamAssassin/rules

  The above line filters all incoming mail through SpamAssassin and tags
probable spam with a unique header.  If you would prefer to have spam
blocked and saved to a file called caughtspam in your home directory
instead of passed through and tagged, append this directly below the
above lines:

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

7. Now, you should be ready to send some test emails and ensure everything
works as expected.  First, send yourself a test email that doesn't contain 
anything suspicious.  You should receive it normally, but there will be a
header containing X-Spam-Status: No.  If you are only tagging your spam,
send yourself an obvious spam mail and check to be sure it is marked as
spam.  If your test emails don't get through to you, immediately rename
your .forward file until you figure out cause of the the problem, so you
don't lose incoming email.

[...]


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Macro index X | spamassassin -r shows zazor-report failed ... undefined Razor::Client

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,

I am using the woody package spamassassin and razor. In my .muttrc I have
set the macro:
macro index X "| spamassassin -r" "report message to Vipul's Razor"

Since about a week now this macro is not working anymore instead shows me the
error message: razor-report failed ... undefined Razor::Client
I cannot figure out why I am not able to run spamassassin -r anymore.
Can anybody give me a hint to a solution of this problem?

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Re: .procmailrc

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How do I make procmail sort out the debian user list?
> I've tried:
> 
> #Debian user
> :0
> * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> debian
> 
> But it doesn't work.

Hi,
I use for example:

:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian

:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-news

:0:
* ^TO_(debian-security-announce|debian-security)@lists\.debian\.org
debian-security

If you are using the digest-form:

  :0:
  * ^Subject:.*debian.*Digest
  | formail +1 -ds >>debian

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Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I've noticed when you forward a message in mutt, it strips off the
> very first header, the envelope From.  Is there a way to change this?


Hi,

I do not know for sure if I am pointing to the same header you mean ... but
let us see:

For example the original headers with the first From line that is missing
when forwarding:

From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Fri Jul 11 06:01:46 2003
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:14:25 +0200 (MEST)
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (automatisch erzeugte E-Mail)

looks like this after forwarding:

To: Bob Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Bcc: 
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ihre Rechnung Juni 2003 steht bereit.]
Reply-To: 

- Forwarded message from automatisch erzeugte E-Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]

So the first line

From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Fri Jul 11 06:01:46 2003

is missing. But this first line has got nothing to do with the original
email header. From the mutt manual you get:

[...]
  4.6.  Mailbox Formats

  Mutt supports reading and writing of four different mailbox formats:
  mbox, MMDF, MH and Maildir.  The mailbox type is autodetected, so
  there is no need to use a flag for different mailbox types.  When
  creating new mailboxes, Mutt uses the default specified with the
  ``$mbox_type'' variable.

  mbox.  This is the most widely used mailbox format for UNIX.  All
  messages are stored in a single file.  Each message has a line of the
  form:

   From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:44:56 PST

  to denote the start of a new message (this is often referred to as the
  ``From_'' line).
[...]

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Re: Euro symbol

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote:

> The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have 
> specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o 
> and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this 
> work fine in emacs.

Hi,
first install the euro-support package(s) ... and see also:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2001/debian-kde-200110/msg00423.html.

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Re: Euro symbol

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote:

> The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have 
> specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o 
> and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this 
> work fine in emacs.

Hi again,

edit your /etc/environment (see mine as example):

### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
# by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
LANG=de_DE@euro
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15
LANGUAGE=de-DES@euro
LC_TYPE=de_DE@euro

Install the package:
kde-i18n-de or kde-i18n-fr

Now set in kde-control-center in personalization your country and your
language (be sure to use a code with euro.

For kedit or kword you have to set the language separately.

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Re: Euro symbol

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote:

> The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have 
> specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o 
> and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this 
> work fine in emacs.

Hi again,

edit your /etc/environment (see mine as example):

### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
# by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
LANG=de_DE@euro
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15
LANGUAGE=de-DES@euro
LC_TYPE=de_DE@euro

Install the package:
kde-i18n-de or kde-i18n-fr

Now set in kde-control-center in personalization your country and your
language (be sure to use a code with euro.

For kedit or kword you have to set the language separately.

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Re: F*****g locales ....

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Fowler wrote:

> Is it just me, or are locales and their setup a serious afterthought on
> Linux.  I havn't yet met a single distro which can sensibly set up
> locales the way I want them.  Considering Linux was started by a Fin,
> you'd think this would have been sorted by now ... calm down, calm
> down.  Ok that's the shouting over !  Pissed off after fruitless hours
> :-(
> 
> It probably is just a question of finding the right setup.  This is what
> I am trying to achieve:
> 
> I live in Germany and would like to use German standards (e.g for date
> formating) as well as have all German, French, Spanish and the Euro
> symbols at my disposal (both in X and on terminal).  I wish to retain
> English (British version if poss.) as the default system language
> though.  
> 
> I've figured so far that I should use ISO-8859-15 (or Unicode .. is that
> available) char sets.  
> 
> Trying to reconfigure the system using dpkg-reconfigure locales just
> generates locales but does nothing more (doesn't seem to set them up for
> use).  This morning I found a reference to localedef and tried that with
> en_GB@ISO-8859-15 and set it up which resulted in a mess: now even a
> simple "ls" in an xterm results in a weird mix of characters - more or
> less incomprehensible 
> 
> 
> Anyway .. has anybody succeeded in such a situation - what's the answer
> ?  Otherwise, does anybody know of good documentation which explains the
> how and why behind all this stuff ??
> 
> 
> Help much appreciated,
> 
> Andy

Regarding your euro-problem:

Install the euro-support packages and read it.

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Re: OT: Travel in china (Was:*****SPAM***** We help you to realize the dream of travelling in China)

[Oliver Fuchs]

Cooking with debian ... see [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-)

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Re: locales and accented charaters

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely
> borked.  messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up
> in ascii codes like this:
> 
>   Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer
>   Kenntnisse, zur Beratung. Nur wenn wir sicher sind, dass Sie das
>   mitbringen, was wir voraussetzen, k\366nnen wir Ihnen den Zugang zum
>   Studium \366ffnen.
> 
> when replying to an email, the same text when quoted looks fine (the
> accented characters render as what they're supposed to be).  weird.
> 
> i tried `dpkg-reconfigure locales`, and generated en_US.ISO-8859-1 and
> en_US.UTF-8 ... still the same problem.  i really don't have any
> further ideas ... can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi,
have a look at /etc/inputrc:

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

and comment this one out.

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Re: locales and accented charaters

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Oliver Fuchs wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> > i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely
> > borked.  messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up
> > in ascii codes like this:
> > 
> >   Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer
> >   Kenntnisse, zur Beratung. Nur wenn wir sicher sind, dass Sie das
> >   mitbringen, was wir voraussetzen, k\366nnen wir Ihnen den Zugang zum
> >   Studium \366ffnen.
> > 
> > when replying to an email, the same text when quoted looks fine (the
> > accented characters render as what they're supposed to be).  weird.
> > 
> > i tried `dpkg-reconfigure locales`, and generated en_US.ISO-8859-1 and
> > en_US.UTF-8 ... still the same problem.  i really don't have any
> > further ideas ... can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Hi,
> have a look at /etc/inputrc:
> 
> # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
> # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
> # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.
> 
> # set convert-meta off
> 
> and comment this one out.

Hi,
here is what I did:
run dpkg-reconfigure localeconf
set all questions about languages to de_DE.ISO-8859-15
If that works do the same procedure but setting it to
en_US.ISO-8859-1 and
Hope you succeed.

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Re: locales and accented charaters

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote:

[...]
> so can someone now come up with a locale for me? i am based in
> switzerland, want (british) english as the primary language, Euro
> support, C sorting, and don't believe in the am/pm time system? oh, my
[...]

Regarding euro support install the euro-support packages and read the
very good documentation ... afterwards you should be able to use the
euro (¤) sign. There is also a euro-test program included.

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Re: cannot start mysql

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, i-cable wrote:

> dear sir
> i am a new user in debian, i was install mysql in ".deb"
> and, .../safe_mysqld & -- .../mysql -u root
> 
> " ERROR 2002: Can't connet to local Mysql server through socket 
>'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'(111)"
Hi,

what packages did you install? I think you missed to install
mysql-server.

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Re: mutt trouble

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 02 Nov 2002, sandip wrote:

> mutt does not recognize my alias file!
> 
> here are relevant sections from .muttrc file:
> 
> # Alias ###
> set sort_alias = alias
> set reverse_alias = yes
> set alias_file = "~/.alias"
> #set alias_format = "%4n %t %-10a   %r"
> 
> here is a sample entry in ~/.alias file:
> 
> alias someuser RealName <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> now, when at To: prompt, i type some and hit tab, nothing happens!
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> thanx in advance
> 
>From mutt manuals you get:

set alias_file=~/Mail/aliases
# Type: path. Default: "~/.muttrc". The default file in which to save aliases created
# by the `` create-alias'' function.
# Note: Mutt will not automatically source this file;
# you must explicitly use the `` source'' command for it to be executed.

source ~/Mail/aliases
# Usage: source filename. This command allows the inclusion of initialization commands
# from other files. For example, I place all of my aliases in ~/.mail_aliases so that
# I can make my ~/.muttrc readable and keep my aliases private.
# If the filename begins with a tilde (``~''), it will be expanded to the path of your 
home directory.
# If the filename ends with a vertical bar (|), then filename is considered to be an
# executable program from which to read input (eg. source ~bin/myscript|/).

set sort_alias=address
# Type: sort order. Default: alias. Specifies how the entries in the `alias' menu are 
sorted.
# The following are legal values:
#   address (sort alphabetically by email address)
#   alias (sort alphabetically by alias name)
#   unsorted (leave in order specified in .muttrc)

set alias_format="%4n %2d %t %-12a  %r"
# Default: "%4n %t %-10a %r". Specifies the format of the data displayed for the 
`alias' menu.
# The following printf(3)-style sequences are available:
# %aalias name
# %nindex number 
# %raddress which alias expands to
# %tcharacter which indicates if the alias is tagged for inclusion 

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Re: log

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, Emanuele Boieri wrote:

> I just install the a new kernel 2.4.19. But when I rebooted again I saw some errors 
>but I couldn't see well because it ran too fast. Is there a log file where I can read 
>what happened?
> Thanks in advance
> Emanuele

Try
dmesg > /tmp/kernel-message
vi /tmp/kernel-message

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mc: /dev/gpmctl: Connection refused

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,

I am using debian woody and I receive this error log but do not know to
realize from where it is coming:

mc: /dev/gpmctl : Connection refused

Does it mean midnight commander is not able to start gpm?

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Re: How can I get rid of the frame buffer?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How can I keep the kernel from using the video frame buffer in Woody?
> In particular, is there a configuration file that controls use of the
> frame buffer.  I cannot find it and I have looked high and low.
> 
> Regards,

At boot-up prompt or in lilo define:

vga=normal

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Re: some german keys don't work..?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Pierre Burri wrote:

> Thanks a lot Oliver!
> dpkg-reconfigure locales first didn't work because I hat to reinstall the 
> package console-tools. I had to rerun install-keymap. After that everything 
> was fine. Thanks again.
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 6. November 2002 12:03 schrieb Olivier Esser:
> > On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:50, Pierre Burri wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > despite that I have set the keymap (with install-keymap) to
> > > de-latin1-nodeadkeys, some keys don't work like ö (oe) ä (ae) ü (ue) etc.
> > > Under Debian 2.2, I remember that I had to put the variable LANG=de_DE in
> > > the file /etc/environment. It doesn't seem to work anymore with 3.0.
> > > I would greatly appreciate some help.
> > > Pierre.
> >
> > Hi me again,
> >
> > I have forget to mention that you have to configure the font correctly. You
> > have to choose ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 if you want the euro symbol. This
> > depend of the application you use; in case of problems please re-email
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Olivier Esser

What about /etc/inputrc?

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

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Re: How can I get rid of the frame buffer?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How can I keep the kernel from using the video frame buffer in Woody?
> In particular, is there a configuration file that controls use of the
> frame buffer.  I cannot find it and I have looked high and low.
> 
> Regards,

At boot-up prompt or in lilo define:

vga=normal

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Re: some german keys don't work..?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Pierre Burri wrote:

> Thanks a lot Oliver!
> dpkg-reconfigure locales first didn't work because I hat to reinstall the 
> package console-tools. I had to rerun install-keymap. After that everything 
> was fine. Thanks again.
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 6. November 2002 12:03 schrieb Olivier Esser:
> > On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:50, Pierre Burri wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > despite that I have set the keymap (with install-keymap) to
> > > de-latin1-nodeadkeys, some keys don't work like ö (oe) ä (ae) ü (ue) etc.
> > > Under Debian 2.2, I remember that I had to put the variable LANG=de_DE in
> > > the file /etc/environment. It doesn't seem to work anymore with 3.0.
> > > I would greatly appreciate some help.
> > > Pierre.
> >
> > Hi me again,
> >
> > I have forget to mention that you have to configure the font correctly. You
> > have to choose ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 if you want the euro symbol. This
> > depend of the application you use; in case of problems please re-email
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Olivier Esser

What about /etc/inputrc?

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

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Re: listmaster helps not, maybe you will

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002, masta_dry wrote:

> Is it possible to get only those mails, which ones are replies to my question 
> only? I don't plan to have an extra e-mail account only for the list's mails. 
> I read the list rules, but found nothing about this. I hope something can be 
> done to avoid having about 100 mails a day.
> Thanks in advance.
> masta_dry

Maybe there is a workaround ...you send mail to the list with a
message-id including a valid fqdn.
In your case it is:

Message-Id: <20021107223131.LHUQ2706.viefep16-int.chello.at@there>

So everyone replying to has this message-id as reference in his/her
mail.
Set up procmail to filter this mails to you mailbox and send the rest to
where ever you want them to.

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Re: Unsuscribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

You cannot read ... and you even cannot write.

So why I am writing this?
Because every time I get one of this dump "ususcribe" messages I have to
pay money for it ...and I have to delete you from my folder ... what can
be done against such dumpas.* ... I filter them straight to /dev/null
... with the condition that they are stupid but have the ability to
write ... damm it I am getting sick of them ... hope they are going to
burn in /dev/null forever.

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Re: Unsuscribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote:

> It certainly is annoying, but I'd bet that most
> are just random acts of mistyping rather than concerted conspiracies of
> stupidity.

I think it is an international conspiracy of stupidy that tries to
destroy us ... maybe they are even sent from an alien planet?

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Re: SUBSCRIBE

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:

> Sergey A. Ovchar wrote:
> 
> >Hello ,
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> ?  ""
> 
> man procamil
> 
> ;)

man /dev/null - burn.

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Re: ot: german isp's

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, ben wrote:

> can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany?
> 
> ben
> 

Freenet


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Re: Unsuscribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, deFreese, Barry wrote:

> I know, it's the next Microsoft consipiracy!!  Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist
> that one!!

Maybe "unsuscribe" is a new Microsoft Windows Office Program:

UNSU - Illiterate Outlook for unsu peaople.

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Re: unsubcribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Frederic Lavoie IMAP wrote:

> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I do not get it ... the next one ... are they brothers ... what do you
think does this mean? Oh, funny siganture the debians have ... whish I
could do it on my own ... oh, but I cannot do it because I cannot
wright.

Hint:
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request
request

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Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
>   I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly.  If any email in
> the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be purged from
> the mailbox.  I am thinking using cron + procmail to do the job, but I
> don't know how.  Anyone one?
> 
Hi,
if you are using mutt you can add this macro to your .muttrc:


macro index q " ~d>60d"

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Re: muttrc parse error - why??

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jonathan Matthews wrote:

> Hi all -
> 
> I'm having a problem with my .muttrc config.
> 
> When starting mutt, it barfs over the line
> send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> complaining 
> "b: not supported in this mode".
> 
> What's wrong with it?
> Can I not use ~ notation in a send hook?

I think you cannot use the ~b option here:

   ~b EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message body

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Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
> client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
> move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
> cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor of the
> box, who then went broke three months later. I need to get Windows
> working (certain key files were clobbered by yet another virus -
> including explorer.exe - likely others, but I'm finding them
> one-at-a-time) to at least extract some key data before re-partitioning,
> and currently, for some strange reason, Windows can't see the cd-rom at
> all (while 2DiskXWin does, so I know that the hardware is okay - only M$
> is $crewed ;)
> 

Remove the battery.

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Tool showing directory size of the complet drive

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,
I am looking on Debian woody for a tool which can show me the size of
folders/files of my complete drive to proof where my disk-space is
wasted.
I am now on 75% and I do not have a clue where my space is wasted.
Can I scan my hole drive and show the largest files in sorting order.

Can anyone recommend a tool for that?


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Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote:

> Charlie Reiman wrote:
> > If you just want to see all files and their sizes, try 'find . -ls'. Sorting
> > this is left as an exercise for the reader.
> 
> ls -l puts the size in the 5th columns, so piping the output through 
> sort -n -k 5
> will put them in ascending order.
> 
> Which brings me on to another little gripe:
> Does anyone else find that files >100MB (requiring more than 8 digits in the
> size column) break the alignment of ls -l's output?  Example:
> 
> drwxrwx--x2 glyn glyn 4096 Nov 17 22:10 bin
> drwxrwx--x9 glyn glyn 8192 Nov 20 11:37 src
> -r--r--r--1 glyn glyn 110215168 Nov 20 00:21 sessions_1-4.iso
>   ^^
 Thanx for the ls hint ... I did it with:

 ls -ahRS > /tmp/ls.txt

It was a huge file ... thought there would be a nicer way to find my
disk-space.

But thanx

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Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi guys,

thanx for the immense input you gave ... uh ... I think the winner is:

du


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Re: german ispell with mutt

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> so i've recently started writing emails in german, and would like to
> spellcheck them from within mutt, like i can using 'i' bound to ispell
> for english messages.  however, piping it to `ispell -d deutsch`
> (which works from the command line, with a filename) at the send menu
> doesn't work.  i've tried a few combinations thereof and checked out
> the manpages ... any tips from the Deutschsprachige out there?
> 

Hi,
I asked the same question on the mutt user mailing list and this is the
answer they gave me for .muttrc:


Ispell german and english dictionary
macro compose I 'set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell -x -d 
deutsch"set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell"'

Be sure to set the default dictionary to english or american with:

update-ispell-dictionary

Actually I am using spellchecker within .muttrc like this:

set ispell = /usr/lib/mutt/mailspell

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Re: german ispell with mutt

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:07:59AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs insinuated:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > so i've recently started writing emails in german, and would like
> > > to spellcheck them from within mutt, like i can using 'i' bound to
> > > ispell for english messages.  however, piping it to `ispell -d
> > > deutsch` (which works from the command line, with a filename) at
> > > the send menu doesn't work.  i've tried a few combinations thereof
> > > and checked out the manpages ... any tips from the
> > > Deutschsprachige out there?
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I asked the same question on the mutt user mailing list and this is the
> > answer they gave me for .muttrc:
> > 
> > Ispell german and english dictionary
> > macro compose I 'set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell -x -d 
>deutsch"set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell"'
> 
> perfect -- exactly what I was looking for!  thanks.
> 
> > Be sure to set the default dictionary to english or american with:
> > 
> > update-ispell-dictionary
> 
> done, thanks.
> 
> > Actually I am using spellchecker within .muttrc like this:
> > 
> > set ispell = /usr/lib/mutt/mailspell
> 
> what's that?

I have it from /usr/lib/mutt/mailspell.

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Du shows me /var/lib with 1.2G

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi all,
as mentioned I tried du to get information about my lost free space
(better than lost in space) ... I was kind of shocked when I saw that
/var/lib/ got 1.2G ... it is very huge ... o.k. my /usr/ directory is
824M ... but I still think it is too big and there are too many packages
on my box. Are there any good tools except deborphan an debfoster to
delete or control my huge amount of packages?

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Re: switch xdm off

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Johan van der Walt wrote:

> Xdm on my pc comes up with KDE. I would like to change that to, say,
> Windowmaker. How can I change that?
> 
> Johan

Here is what I did:

install the windowmaker packages (in dselect search for wmaker or simply
wm for the applications)
install wdm
dpkg-reconfigure wdm (should be done already with 'install wdm' in
dselect)
update-rc.d -f xdm remove

After restarting your x-session choose wmaker in wdm's 'Start WM'.

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Re: Du shows me /var/lib with 1.2G (solved)

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, nate wrote:

> Oliver Fuchs said:
> > Hi all,
> > as mentioned I tried du to get information about my lost free space
> > (better than lost in space) ... I was kind of shocked when I saw that
> > /var/lib/ got 1.2G ... it is very huge ... o.k. my /usr/ directory is 824M
> > ... but I still think it is too big and there are too many packages on my
> > box. Are there any good tools except deborphan an debfoster to delete or
> > control my huge amount of packages?
> 
> try finding out exactly what is using the space
> 
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -s -h
> (if you see anything unusual, go into that dir and do the same
> command, you could try doing du on all the directories but to me
> that makes it harder to read)
> 
> one of my systems has a TON of packages(552) and yet /var/lib
> is only 60MB(by comparison my /usr is 972MB)
> 
> perhaps its not even a package file(s) that are taking all the space.

Hi Nate,

after the first shock-wave has gone I found out what caused my disk-space to
be gone up in smoke:

/var/lib/htdig with 1.2G

Thanx for showing the direction,

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Re: login to desktops

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, M.Wegmann wrote:

> hi, 
> 
> I moved from suse to debian, better I am still on the way. Up to now I have two 
>questions. 
> After the installation (which looked fine for me) i get a text login. Is that 
>correct? no graphical login? 
> and second, if the text login is correct, how do I start windowmaker or kde? 
> 
> thanks for your help, cheers Martin
> 

In dselect choose wdm or xdm. After the graphical login on tty7 you can
choose kde or windowmaker.

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Re: ms windows

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:41:10AM +0900, O.B.Gilmour wrote:
> >Please send-me a mail thank you
> 
> Yee-haw, the surreal spam is back.
> 

Maybe we should do him a favor.

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Re: (fwd) unsubscribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Lukas Ruf wrote:

> Is he silly?

Another jackass ... is it against the law to hit stupid people?

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Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, csj wrote:

> Why doesn't the following .procmailrc recipe work?
> 
> :0fwh

it has to be

:0 fwh

> | sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:/I ; s/mailto://'

What exactly do you want to do here?

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Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, matt wrote:

> first off, thanks everyone for trying to help me figure out my ssh2
> delema.  completely reinstalled woody and used openssh and the problem
> persists.  but at least i now know it's not the debian machine.
> 
> easy question...I need to load two kernel modules (mga.o and sb.o) but
> they don't show up in the modconf menu like in potato.  where are they? 
> lsmod dosn't show them.  where/how can i download them?  there's mention
> in the installation manual of being able to load the kernel and modules
> over the network (http/ftp) but never tells you how :(
> 
> thanks guys,
> -matt
> --

Did you compile them as modules?

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Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, csj wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:24:11 +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, csj wrote:
> > 
> > > Why doesn't the following .procmailrc recipe work?
> > > 
> > > :0fwh
> > 
> > it has to be
> > 
> > :0 fwh
> > 
> > > | sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:/I ; s/mailto://'
> > 
> > What exactly do you want to do here?
> 
> Easy. I want to rewrite the email header (field) List-Post so
> that I can use it with my MUA's automatic "To:" insertion. The
> header in question generally takes the non-useful from of
> "List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> 
> Basically I want to extract the contents of List-Post minus the
> "mail-to:" to create a header like "X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>." I can then tell my MUA to use this in replies to
> list mail. This I feel is a better solution than attempting to
> make an elephant dance.

Ah, o.k ... looking at the header of your mail I found this:

X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/247813

So it is already there ... is this what you wanted?
Using mutt you have the possibility:

  list-reply (default: L)

  Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses
  which match the addresses given by the ``lists or subscribe''
  commands, but also honor any Mail-Followup-To header(s) if the
  ``$honor_followup_to'' configuration variable is set.  Using this when
  replying to messages posted to mailing lists helps avoid duplicate
  copies being sent to the author of the message you are replying to.

See also man formail:

   To supersede the Reply-To: field in a header you could use:
  formail -i "Reply-To: foo@bar"

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Re: unsubscribe

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lukas Ruf wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christian L?pez wrote:
> 
> > -- 
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> obviously, the Debian User Base disposes of some people that still do
> not know reading the emails!
> 
> I am really getting sick of all this unsubscribe emails.  Wouldn't it
> be possible to just knock out all the "Subject: unsubscribe" emails?

Procmail:

:0
* ^Subject:.(un[- ]?subscribe|remove me|SUBSCRIBE)
/dev/null

They should burn.

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Re: Sending mail as a particular user

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, McRae, Darren A wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is the a way of mail being sent as a particular user no matter what the
> linux username is? So if I log in as root or daz or pete it sends mail
> signed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> This needs to be done via sendmail, as that is what I'm using.

You can setup your genericstable in /etc/mail e.g.:

daz@localhost   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pete@localhost  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

For more details see cf.README

[...}
genericstable   This feature will cause unqualified addresses (i.e., without
a domain) and addresses with a domain listed in class {G}
to be looked up in a map and turned into another ("generic")
form, which can change both the domain name and the user name.
Notice: if you use an MSP (as it is default starting with
8.12), the MTA will only receive qualified addresses from the
MSP (as required by the RFCs).  Hence you need to add your
domain to class {G}.  This feature is similar to the userdb
functionality.  The same types of addresses as for
masquerading are looked up, i.e., only header sender
addresses unless the allmasquerade and/or masquerade_envelope
features are given.  Qualified addresses must have the domain
part in class {G}; entries can be added to this class by the
macros GENERICS_DOMAIN or GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously
to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below).
[...]

You can also use the -f switch with sendmail.

Using mutt you have the possibility to set your name in .muttrc:

[...]  
  6.3.55.  from

  Type: e-mail address
  Default: ""

  When set, this variable contains a default from address.  It can be
  overridden using my_hdr (including from send-hooks) and
  $reverse_name.

  Defaults to the EMAIL environment variable's content.
  
  6.3.179.  realname

  Type: string
  Default: ""

  This variable specifies what "real" or "personal" name should be used
  when sending messages.

  By default, this is the GCOS field from /etc/passwd.  Note that this
  variable will not be used when the user has set a real name in the
  ``$from'' variable.

  6.3.43.  envelope_from

  Type: boolean
  Default: no

  When set, mutt will try to derive the message's envelope sender from
  the "From:" header.  Note that this information is passed to sendmail
  command using the "-f" command line switch, so don't set this option
  if you are using that switch in ``$sendmail'' yourself, or if the
  sendmail on your machine doesn't support that command line switch.
[...]

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Re: Mutt: font color

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Qian Gong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use the following line to define the foreground color for xterm.
> xterm*foreground:   #afafaf
> 
> It works well. But in mutt or pine, the white font is bright (#ff, I
> think). Is there a way to preserve the color #afafaf of xterm in mutt or
> pine? For vim, it preserves the color #afafaf. 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
I use this color-setup in my .muttrc:

#
# Color #
#

mono  messagebold
color messagewhite  red
color error  brightyellow   red
color indicator  white  red
color tree   brightmagenta  default
color signature  reddefault
color attachment brightyellow   red
color search brightyellow   red
color tilde  brightmagenta  default
color markersbrightmagenta  default
color quoted white  default
color quoted1magentadefault
color quoted2reddefault
color quoted3green  default
color quoted4cyan   default
color quoted5blue   default
color quoted6magentadefault
color quoted7reddefault
color quoted8green  default
color quoted9cyan   default
color hdrdefault brightred  default
color header brightyellow   default  "^(from):"
color header brightblue default  "^(to):"
color header green  default  "^(subject):"
color body   brightcyan default  \ 
"((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\\.)[-a-z@0-9_.:]*[a-z0-9](/[^][{} 
\t\n\r\"<>()]*[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>().,:])?"
color body   brightcyan default  "[-a-z_0-9.+]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
color body   reddefault  "(^| )\\*[-a-z0-9äöüß*]+\\*[,.?]?[ \n]"

#color underline  green  default
#color header defaultdefault  "[ \t]+[^:]*$"
#color bold   brightblackdefault


Try which part of the message should be changed.

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Re: Mutt: font color

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Qian Gong wrote:

> Is it possible to define a customized color in mutt by specifying the RGB
> value? Thanks.
> Qian
> 

>From mutt manual you get:


  Mutt also recognizes the keywords color0, color1, ..., colorN-1 (N
  being the number of colors supported by your terminal).  This is
  useful when you remap the colors for your display (for example by
  changing the color associated with color2 for your xterm), since color
  names may then lose their normal meaning.

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Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, csj wrote:

> I've checked that one out. It seems you still need some sed
> tricks.

Hi,
I added your .procmailrc receipe and tested your configuration:

:0 fwh
| sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:/I ; s/mailto://'
sedprocmail

And it worked:

X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/247813
List-Post: 


X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/247813
X-Mailing-List-Post-Address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

So where is your problem. The receipe is done very well but I do not if
this is what you need in emacs as starting point for your reply.

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Re: Newbie needs help badly!

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fred Sloniker wrote:

> I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my
> previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you.  There's a good
> reason for that, though: Debian ate my email.
> 
> I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to
> focus on something more basic, specifically getting fetchmail up and
> running.  It grabbed the 300-some mail in my box and put them...
> somewhere.  I don't know where.  My user account, the one they should
> have been sent to, has no mail.  Neither does root.

Your .fetchmailrc file should look something like this:

set postmaster "memyself"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll pop.mail.isp.aka with proto POP3
   user 'myispname' there with password 'secret' is 'mydebianuser' here options 
fetchall

So your mydebianuser should have received the mail.
If not look at your .procmairc file ... what is it saying.
Try to locate your mailbox.
What does the log say (sendmail or exim).

> I can't even boot into Linux now because fetchmail will eat more of my
> email. 

I do not understand why you are not able anymore to boot your debian box
- this could not be caused by fetchmail. Or do you mean you do not want
to boot it again because you are afraid your mails will be eaten again?

> Would someone please tell me what I need to do to get those
> 300-odd messages delivered so I can stop using Windows? 

Give more info.

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Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, John Foster wrote:

> I have set the variables in /etc/environment to the following
> 
> ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
> # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
> # by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
> # FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
> # localeconf" line.
> LANG=en_US
> ### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
> CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2
> GCC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2
> CPP=/usr/bin/cpp-3.2

Hi,
the /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.0-base/README.Debian.gz says:

How are the default compilers selected?
---

[...]
This may seem confusing, but what it allows you do to is install two
versions of the GCC compiler suite at the same time, making sure you are
always using the one preferred for that architecture. To use the other
compiler, simply set CC=gcc-3.0, or similar.
[...]

That seems to be in your file. If you have installed the gcc-3.2 why not simply
link /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc-3.2.

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Re: WindowMaker Menu

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I installed OpenOffice on my desktop. I downloaded the tarball, I
> didn't use the apt-getable package (I tried, it didn't work...).
> 
> After I installed it, my menu in WindowMaker doesn't include
> OpenOffice in the submenu Apps (eventhough I apt-getted install menu).
> So I tried to add it with Wmakerconf. Then it gives me 3 choices :
> Start with empty menu, Convert current menu, and Use predefined menu.
> I tried the 3 of them, but it seems it would crash my current menu,
> which I don't want.

After you have started Wmakerconf point your mouse to the menu and the
right mouse bottom lets you "Insert Debian Menu" or "Insert KDE menu".
I added both of them and they hold most of the programs that are
installed in the menu.
Maybe you are lucky.

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Re: configuring vga16fb

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Hamster wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to configure the vga16fb frame buffer device thats compiled into
> the 2.4.18-bf24 kernel that comes with Woody.
> 
> Reading Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt suggests I need to do this via lilo
> using the option append="video= "
> 
> However I cant find anywhere the format that the arguments to that append need
> to take! I have read the docs in Documents/fb, I've read the boot-paramaters
> HOWTO. 
> 

Hi,
for me works:

in lilo set vga=791
run lilo.

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Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alan Chandler wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On Friday 29 November 2002 1:37 pm, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating.  But it also
> > looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch.  So maybe someone
> > else has done it already?
> >
> > I'm using sarge and I'd like to use initrd to be able to boot the
> > same kernel on different hardware.  So, for example, I don't need to
> > compile in both ide and scsi support because some machines boot from
> > one, some from the other.
> >
> > I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, could
> > they be pilfered for my purpose?
> > --
> > ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis)
> 
> Just look at the standard debian kernels + the initrd-tools package.  then 
> look at mkinitrd command.

See also man make-kpkg and option --initrd:

   --initrd
  If  make-kpkg is generating a kernel-image package, perform any actions 
necessary for a kernel loaded
  using initrd.  This may include extra dependencies, and modifications to 
maintainer scripts.  It  has
  no  effect  when  make-kpkg  is not making a kernel-image package. The 
same effect can be achieved by
  setting the environment variable INITRD to any non empty value.  To 
avoid a warning at install  time,
  please read kernel-img.conf(5), and add a warn_initrd directive in that 
file.

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Re: Advanced procmail question

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:

> What would be a good example procmail rule to automatically delete
> messages 72 hours old or more?
> 

Using mutt adding this macro to your .muttrc answers your question:


macro index q " ~d>3d"

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Re: Advanced procmail question

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:46:19AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > Using mutt adding this macro to your .muttrc answers your question:
> > macro index q " ~d>3d"
> 
> Ok, this is definately a start.  Now, how to go about limiting it to
> just one folder?
> 

How about:

folder-hook myfolder push 'D~d>10d'

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Re: Advanced procmail question

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On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:46:19AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > Using mutt adding this macro to your .muttrc answers your question:
> > macro index q " ~d>3d"
> 
> Ok, this is definately a start.  Now, how to go about limiting it to
> just one folder?
> 

How about:

folder-hook myfolder push 'D~d>10d'

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Re: Euro-sign...

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002, Tom wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For a while now, I've been trying to enable the Euro-sign on my
> machine. I regenerated the right locales, environment variables are
> set up well and the iso-8859-15 charset is enabled in my kernel.
> 
> What else could I possibly do? I can see and produce the friggin'
> thing in Mozilla, but that's it. Not on the command line, not in
> knode, not in mutt, not in an [x|a]term. Is there anyone who has
> managed to fully support the Euro-sign on his/her system? Wouldn't
> that person be able to write a small webpage about it?
> 
> The world would be grateful. And I, too, for any tips...
> 
> Greets,
> Tom

Hi,
first install the euro-support packages.
To enable the euro symbol on console you have to:

Edit in /etc/console-tools (depending on what you have installed - the
console tools or kbd) the config file and add:

SCREEN_FONT_vc1=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc2=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc3=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc4=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc5=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc6=lat0-16

Edit you /etc/environment like this:

LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15
LANGUAGE=de-DES@euro
LC_TYPE=de_DE@euro

Install the kde package that supports German language. Choose
iso-8859-15 and set it extra in some applications like kedit.

This is only a short descriptions of what I have done to enable the
euro-symbol. For more details see the euro-support packages.

Have fun and success.

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Re: dselect wants to uninstall everything?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002, Brian Kendig wrote:

> I have a fresh install of Debian Linux 3.0.  I want to use dselect to 
> install some additional packages... but it appears that, by default, 
> dselect wants to *uninstall* most of my Debian installation, unless I 
> go through the list by hand and tell it to keep each installed package!

How did you install Debian Linux 3.0.
As far as I can remember after the base configurations you are asked to
run tasksel or dselect. Then you have the possibility to choose your
packages.

> I run 'dselect' from a command line and I can get it to load and 
> display the list of available packages.  But if I don't change the list 
> of packages at all, and instead go directly to the 'install' option, 
> then it tries to deinstall hundreds of packages (including basic stuff 
> like 'at' and 'adduser' and 'cpp' and 'dc').  If I go back to the 
> 'select' list and try to tell it to keep any of these packages, it 
> complains about dependency problems and lists a lot of packages which 
> seem to have nothing to do with the one I'm trying to keep prevent 
> being deleted.

If there are unsolved dependencies or conflicts then dselect tries to
solve them.

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Re: Advanced procmail question

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002, Oliver Fuchs wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:46:19AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > > Using mutt adding this macro to your .muttrc answers your question:
> > > macro index q " ~d>3d"
> > 
> > Ok, this is definately a start.  Now, how to go about limiting it to
> > just one folder?
> > 
> 
> How about:
> 
> folder-hook myfolder push 'D~d>10d'
> 

and/or additional:

folder-hook myfolder 'macro index q " ~d>1d"'

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Re: clearing the screen

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2002, Dominic Iadicicco wrote:

> How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it
> will clear the screen first?
> 

Hi,
I did this in my ~/.bash_profile:

alias exit="clear;exit"


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302 Moved temporarily

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,

I am using Debian 3.0 with apt sources-list:


deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-8 
[...]
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

Since the debian server burned down I get this error message
whenever I run in dselect "update":


deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
302: Temporarily moved

When I update dselect the second time it will be o.k..

Does anyone know the reason for this?

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Re: How can I disable framebuffer on the boot?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Listas wrote:

> Hi guys, How can I disable framebuffer on the boot?
> What parameter I need to put on lilo.conf to do that?
> I try to search on lilo documentations but I got no clues :(
> I am using woody with 2.4 kernel, I need to disable fb because here we 
> use dataflex program which is not working well on fb.
> My woody autodetect VGA16 fb with 80x30 lin/col
> My dataflex program use 80x25 lin/col
> 
> I need to disable FB or configure it to run in 80/25 mode
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 

Hi,
I think a:

append="video=vga"
vga=normal

in your lilo.conf should do this.

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Re: color in concole

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Dominic Iadicicco wrote:

> How do you get a user other then root to user the ls --color
> automatic+ly?  I have uncommented all of the alias in the .bashrc
> file for the user but it still doesn't work.
> 
> any help would be appreciated.

In your ~/.bash_profile set:

alias ls="ls --color=auto"

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Re: What [OT] stands for?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, hiranokazunari wrote:

> Thanks everybody!
> 
> Now I understand OT generally means Off Topic.
> I thought it was "on tap", "on target", "on television",
> "on telephone", "on tenterhooks", "on term", or
> "on tablets":)

Yeah, sure it is "on tablets" ... uauauauah. That was the best thing
I have read here.
Any suggestions for FYI?
Or RTFM?

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Re: how to rename multiple files

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, drew cohan wrote:

> How do I rename all files in a directory matching the pattern
> *.JPG to *.jpg in a bash shell script?  Thanks to you guys I can
> check for the existence of jpgs in a directory, but can't seem get
> 'mv' to rename them for me (always complains that the last
> argument must be a directory).
> 

Hi, see man rename:

[...]

DESCRIPTION
"rename" renames the filenames supplied
according to the rule specified as the first argument.  The
perlexpr argument is a Perl expression which is expected to
modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the
filenames specified.  If a given filename is not modified by
the expression, it will not be renamed.  If no filenames are
given on the command line, filenames will be read via
standard input.

For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip
the extension, you might say

   rename 's/\e.bak$//' *.bak

   To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use

   rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

[...]

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Re: crontab

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, Steve wrote:

> I set up a crontab to run at hourly intervals as both user root and user 
> news. This is to run leafnode. By accident I noticed that there was a daily 
> cronjob set up I guess by the Leafnode deb, but I don't understand how it 
> works - it references the debian-config in my /etc/news/leafnode directory.
> 

The leafnode cronjob file is found in /etc/cron.daily.
It first says

# Get configuration
. /etc/news/leafnode/debian-config

Here in /etc/news/leafnode/debian-config the type of connection is
defined:

# What sort of network connection do we have?  Valid values are PPP,
# permanent and none.
NETWORK=PPP

The next part regards texpire and newsgroup touching.

The definition of the network-type definitions is found in
/usr/share/doc/leafnode/README.Debian:

[...]

Network connection type
---

The Leafnode package can be configured for use on two kinds of network 
connection - PPP and permanent.  The option chosen controls when
fetchnews is run.  If you select PPP, it will be started every time you
bring up a PPP connection (or any other type of network connection which
runs the scripts in /etc/ppp).  Otherwise, it will be run daily from the
cron.daily scripts.  The setting can be changed running 'dpkg-reconfigure
leafnode'.

[...]

As I found out if you want to change the network option the
'dpkg-reconfigure leafnode' is not working for the network-type.

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Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> FYI - (to) Further Your Insanity 
> 
> e.g. Just FYI, remember that all /usr/bin paths during compilation on a
> Debian system will be changed to /usr/local/bin, unless the program is
> installed from a deb, in which case it will be installed in /usr/bin. If
> you compile a deb from source, however, the install path will still be
> /usr/bin, unless you compile from source without using the debian
> building rules in which case it will be /usr/local/bin. This could, of
> course, be modified depending on the program in question, which may
> choose to instead install in /usr/local/sbin, or /sbin, or /usr/sbin
> depending on the program and the packaging system. If, however, the
> alternatives system is used, this is all moot. :)

That is also a goody ... I thought F stands for the f-word and y ...
I do not know ... are children here on the list?
> 
> RTFM - Realign the Frequency Modulator (aka, turn the tuning knob on
> your radio. ;)
> 
> That's the best I could come up with on the spot. :)
> 
> -Alex

The 'on tablets' is still unreached.

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Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:06, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > That is also a goody ... I thought F stands for the f-word and y ...
> > I do not know ... are children here on the list?
> 
> f-word? "Firetruck"?

g/Firetruck/s/iretr//g

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Re: spamassasin help needed

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

> i would like to know if i can:
> 
> - automatically move these messages to a particular folder - say
>   spam
> 

Hi,
add this to your .procmailrc file:

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

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Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, D. wrote:

> BTW as a check of the kids today, I ask my 13 year old
> daughter what word started with f and ended with uck. 
> You know her response was  and when I told her the
> answer was firetruck she was shocked.
> Don

Now she knows that f...ck is only the abbreviation for firetruck.

Oliver o.t.

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No modem beep with pon

[Oliver Fuchs]

Hi,
I am using pppd and pon/poff to get internet access on Debian woody.
What happened is that I hit a key on my keyboard while I was dialing in with
pon ... and from then on I do not receive any modem beeping like I did
before.
Does anybody know the key combination to unsilent (make it noisy again) my
modem again?

Thanx in advance

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Re: No modem beep with pon - solved

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Shaul Karl wrote:

>   I guess that a better description for beeps would be all kind of
> whistles, doesn't it? I would try to inspect the modem initialization
> string and explicitly set the controls of the speaker to on. It could be
> that your modem use the PC built in speaker. However I don't know what
> control characters have to be given in the terminal in order to switch
> it on or off. 
>   Can you hear the modem when sending faxes or when dialing out with 
> other apps like minicom?

Hi,
thanx for replying ... I found because of the/your "speakers" hint the problem
... I am using a toshiba laptop and while trying to change to another
console I used the Fn hotkey that mutes the speaker ... so thanx again for
your hint.

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Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003, Michael D Schleif wrote:

> I don't know about any of you; but, I really want the opportunity -- up
> front -- to decide *FOR MYSELF* whether or not I consider the email sent
> to me from these sites to be spam.

To control the spam-emails before they are send to /dev/null I put this in
my .procmailrc:


# Spamassassin #

:0fw
| spamc

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

So using mutt I can deceide on my own if spam delivered to folder caughtspam
should be definitive deleted.


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Re: setting time via internet ?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, dave selby wrote:

> Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via 
> the internet every time I log on?
> 

Have a look at the chrony package.

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Re: Mutt select language for ispell

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Joao Clemente wrote:

> Is there a way to select the language ispell uses for spell checking? 
> I have both English and Portuguese dictionaries installed, but I don't
> see a way to tell mutt to choose "Portuguese" when I want to.. It always
> uses English, that is the default one...

I use a macro to change between german and english (defualt is english)
... maybe you like it.

# Ispell german and english dictionary
# macro compose I 'set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell -x -d 
deutsch"set ispell="/usr/bin/ispell"'

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Re: Euro-sign

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a possibility to use the euro-sign? Of yes -> what do I have to
> install?
> 

Hi,
install the three euro-support packages provided by debian and read the
HOWTO.

For console-euro use you also have depending on your configuration to add
this to /etc/console-tools/config:

SCREEN_FONT_vc1=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc2=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc3=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc4=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc5=lat0-16
SCREEN_FONT_vc6=lat0-16

See also this msg mentioned in the HOWTO:

[...]

El Mié 24 Oct 2001 11:15, javi escribió:
> Hi all!!
>
>   We have to say that we don't get the euro under KDE. We
> have tested all the possibles configurations, and we have
> read all the documents, included
> http://koffice.kde.org/kword/euro.phtml.
>   We have the euro correctly supported under terminal, we
> have installed all fonts, transcoded included and wee need
> truetype fonts, and iso8859-15. We are able to see Euro
> displayed on a xterminal when we run:
>   #xterm -fn
> -mix-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-15
>
>   But is impossible that all the fonts show the Euro at all.
> This is confusing!!
> When we run xfd, an aplication that displays all the
> characters of a map, we can see the Euro symbol displayed in
> all the fonts iso8859-15, but when selecting those fonts the
> Euro symbol simply doesn't appear.
>   Summing up, when trying to get the euro under KDE all that
> we can see is '?' (a little circle with 4 marks) or an '?'.
> All of these is anoying, we don't know what to do now.
> Anybody has got configured Euro symbol, with all fonts (M$
> truetype included) under KDE2 and a woody distribution?
>
> Thanks in advance again, any advice would be apreciate...

Javi,

  I have finally suceeded in rendering and using the ¤ (euro sign) and I
should say that it is thanks to Hendrik Sattler, although the settings for
German and Spanish differ in several aspects. I am using woody (Debian 3.0) +
KDE 2.2.1 (from sid).

 These are my settings. It may be possible that some are not necessary:

1) /etc/locale.gen:
es_ES ISO-8859-15
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15
en_US ISO-8859-1

Run locale-gen after modifying this file.

2) /etc/environment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-15
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

this allows that KDE aplications read tke variables on startup. The settings
for LC_ALL and LANG must be exactly as I show them. Any other combination
does not work. I do not know if the last two items are needed.

3) Install package user-es. If you run "/usr/bin/castellanizar" you will get
a file called "/etc/language-es" which should be called by /etc/bash.bashrc
and /etc/profile.

/etc/language-es  (some of the entries):
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export LC_ALL
LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-15
export LANG

4) Install xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded

5) Modify in Kcontrol -> Personalización -> País e Idioma from ISO-8859-1 to
ISO-8859-15

6) Some individual applications from KDE may need that you change the
codification from ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-15 (like kmail or kedit)

7) This is NOT necessary to be changed. The entry in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/de
should say:

key  {[   e,   E  ],
   [EuroSign,cent  ]   };

which is the default one. If you change EuroSign by currency it does NOT
work. Here it differs from the German case.

With these settings you will get ¤ on applications like kmail, kword,
kedit,... but if you type Alt-Gr E on konsole you will get the circle with
four corners in the form of X. If you copy and paste this sign from konsole
to kmail the symbol is pasted as ¤. In kdm you cannot type ¤ because it does
not work there, but I guess nobody needs it there :-)

regards,

Pablo de Vicente
KDE spanish translation team.

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Re: stopping attached files with sendmail

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Listas wrote:

> Anyone here knows how I can stop attached files on email with sendmail?
> 

What do you mean?:
stop receiving email with attachments
stop sending email with attachments
Where do you want this action to take place (only local, ...)

One possibility would be to limit the size of messages:

confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZEMaxMessageSize  [infinite] The maximum size of messages
that will be accepted (in bytes).


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