Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-08 Thread David Maslen
I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. I can pipe incoming mail through procmail, into various folders. I've tested it and it works, sorting my incoming mail into several folders. Currently I use emacs + vm to read mail. It takes mail from my ~/Mailbox, and copies it to ~/Mail/i

file system copying nightmare

1998-02-08 Thread David Maslen
Hamish Moffatt writes: > I would do it with the rescue disk, mounting the two partitions > as /mnt and /mnt2, except that the rescue disk (poorly named?) > seems to have a cut down cp with only -r, and no tar! I found the 'rescue' disk a bit lacking in this respect. Personally I would have tho

lists

1998-02-07 Thread David Maslen
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Problems using adduser with NIS

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
Hi, I'm having difficulty adding users to my network which runs nis. I have a mail server which also stores the home directories. This is where I set up new users, but users cannot log into this machine. They access their directories over NFS, and get their mail the same way through qmail's Mailbox

Unidentified subject!

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
I'm trying to keep my system, on the stable distribution. I found myself recompiling a couple of packages such as qmail so as to be able to do this. I've tried to recompile gimp0.99 and it doesn't seem to work. ./debian/rules build seems to go ok, complaining it can't find something to do with xd