logs
Hi to all! I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Dec-2000 Time: 16:28:42 --
.gnome-error
Hello I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in module_path='libpixmap.so'" "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" What does they mean? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Dec-2000 Time: 16:34:54 --
Re: .gnome-error
Thank you David! it was exactly your guess. After installing the gtk-engines-pixmap the error has gone. And my desktop theme is looking much better... :P On 03-Dec-2000 David Z Maze wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MC> I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error > file and > MC> I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: > MC> > MC> "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in > MC> module_path='libpixmap.so'" > > My guess on this one is that you're trying to use the 'pixmap' Gtk > theme, but don't have it installed. Try installing the > 'gtk-engines-pixmap' package, or changing your theme in the GNOME > control center, or (last resort) tweaking or removing the .gtkrc file > in your home directory. > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
Re: logs
Well, after your suggestion I looked for logrotate and yes, it is installed. In the logrotate.conf appear the following lines: # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 because my potato system is younger than 4 weeks I will wait before doing anything. Thanks for the help! On 03-Dec-2000 Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:33:05PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to >> Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems >> to >> write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does >> exists >> a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? > > Sounds like you haven't installed the logrotate package? It will rename > & compress logs and allow you to keep only a set number of days worth. > It's pretty much an "install-and-forget" type package - I never had to > change anything in there... > > Hope this helps -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim+logrotate
Hello!
I have a few questions, and I will appreciate very much any help:
1) I have entries for exim in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily/ and
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d. I can understand the last entry, it starts exim when I
dial-up my ISP. Why the first two?
2) I have an entry for logrotate in /etc/cron.daily, this entry starts
logrotate with /etc/logrotate.conf as its argument. The file
logrotate.conf is at the end of this message. I would like to know if it
is a normal logrotate.conf file, or if it is necessary to change anything,
because there exist logs in /var/log with entries older than 4 weeks...
Thanks in advance for the help!
Marcelo
logrotate.conf file:
***
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# send errors to root
errors root
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own wtmp or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
logrotate.conf: unmodified, readonly: line 1
rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be configured here
**
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exim doesn't deliver
Hello, I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in /var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages, all of them saying the following: "local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has wrong uid (0 != 1000) *** Frozen" What should be the correct uid? how can I change it? Any help will be very appreciated! Thanks Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Dec-2000 Time: 21:39:54 --
exim (II)
Hello!, I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate very much any help regarding this matter! 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I receive still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount myISP.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) what could be wrong? 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this a problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. This is normal? Again, any help will be very appreciated!! Cheers, -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Dec-2000 Time: 18:20:45 --
RE: exim
I think this is a very good idea! I would like to have a look to a working dialup exim.conf file too. Can someone help us? :) Thanks a lot in advance! On 11-Dec-2000 A R wrote: > Can someone provide a simple exim.conf sample file, where pop3, > smtphost, local user, remote user, password variables -over a dialup > connection to at&t server- are set? Regards, Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Dec-2000 Time: 18:34:15 --
RE: exim (II)
Gregory, thank you very much for your comment. Below is the first part of my exim.conf file. Could you take a look to it please? is it OK? After Tim's comment I realized that my ISP username and the name of my account (localhost?) in my system are the same. Could be this a problem? Please note that "centroin.com.br" is my ISP. (I think I missed the real meaning of the word localhost) Thanks in advance for your help and time!! :) Regards Marcelo qualify_domain = centroin.com.br # qualify_recipient = local_domains = localhost:centroin.com.br local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true #relay_domains = #relay_domains_include_local_mx = true never_users = root host_lookup = * # headers_check_syntax #rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com #rbl_reject_recipients = false #rbl_warn_header = true host_accept_relay = localhost # percent_hack_domains=* trusted_users = mail smtp_verify = false gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*) gecos_name = $1 smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 freeze_tell_mailmaster = true >> -Original Message- >> From:Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent:102000 5:50 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: exim (II) >> >> Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? >> If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most >> definitely explain the error you're describing. >> >> Cheers! >> >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > Hello!, >> > >> > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make >> > exim >> > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will >> > appreciate >> > very much any help regarding this matter! >> > >> > 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I >> receive >> > still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails >> > from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount >> > myISP.com >> > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) >> > 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). >> > reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to >> > localhost >> > failed >> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com >> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) >> > >> > what could be wrong? >> > >> > 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the >> > MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this >> > a >> > problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. >> > >> > 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, >> goes >> > to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. >> > >> > 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file >> > /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. >> This >> > is normal? >> > >> > Again, any help will be very appreciated!! >> > >> > Cheers, -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Dec-2000 Time: 18:40:53 --
RE: exim (II)
Tim, if localhost is my account in my system, then yes, my ISP username and my localhost one are the same. I think I need to solve the problem in the same way you did. Please, how can I entry to the alias file? is an alias for what? Thank you very much for your help!! Cheers Marcelo On 11-Dec-2000 Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all > incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I > added an entry to the alias file, and all was well. > > Tim > >> -Original Message- >> From:Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent:102000 5:50 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: exim (II) >> >> Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? >> If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most >> definitely explain the error you're describing. >> >> Cheers! >> >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > Hello!, >> > >> > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make >> > exim >> > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will >> > appreciate >> > very much any help regarding this matter! >> > >> > 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I >> receive >> > still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails >> > from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount >> > myISP.com >> > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) >> > 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). >> > reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to >> > localhost >> > failed >> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com >> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) >> > >> > what could be wrong? >> > >> > 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the >> > MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this >> > a >> > problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. >> > >> > 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, >> goes >> > to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. >> > >> > 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file >> > /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. >> This >> > is normal? >> > >> > Again, any help will be very appreciated!! >> > >> > Cheers, -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Dec-2000 Time: 19:08:00 This message was sent by XFMail --
cron vs anacron
Hi! Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13-Dec-2000 Time: 21:35:40 This message was sent by XFMail --
gnome-errors
Hello! What is the meaning of the following lines in my .gnome-errors file? Unable to bind port 16001 /dev/dsp: No such device subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device Thanks in advance! Marcelo
fetchmaiconf
Hi! running fetchailconf 1.23 with the "novice configuration" I get the following output when I test fetchmail (always from inside fetchmailconf) fetchmail:/home/chiappa/.fetchmailrc:7: parse error at = Done. I will appreciate very much any help. Regards, Marcelo
OT: script languages
Hello, I need to write several scripts for file manipulation, for example: change name files, read specific columns and write them in a new file, call fortan programs to read these files, etc. Because I have to learn how to do this, I wonder what scrip language is better: Perl or Phyton? or another one? (no flame war please!) Thanks in advance Marcelo Aqui na Oi Internet você ganha ou ganha. Além de acesso grátis com qualidade, ganha contas ilimitadas de email com 1 giga cada uma. Ganha espaço ilimitado para hospedar sua página pessoal. Ganha flog, suporte grátis e muito mais. Baixe grátis o Discador em http://www.oi.com.br/discador e comece a ganhar. Agora, se o seu negócio é voar na internet sem pagar uma fortuna, assine Oi Internet banda larga a partir de R$ 9,90. Clique em http://www.oi.com.br/bandalarga e aproveite essa moleza!
