OT: script languages

2006-08-02 Thread chiappa
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 anothe

fetchmaiconf

2000-12-16 Thread chiappa
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

gnome-errors

2000-12-15 Thread chiappa
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

cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread chiappa
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 --

RE: exim (II)

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
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

RE: exim (II)

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
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

RE: exim

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
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 variable

exim (II)

2000-12-10 Thread chiappa
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

exim doesn't deliver

2000-12-06 Thread chiappa
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,

exim+logrotate

2000-12-05 Thread chiappa
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

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
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

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
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

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
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! Marce

logs

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
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