apt cache obese?

Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating junk food? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt cache obese?

On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:56, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and >

Re: apt cache obese?

On Friday 13 February 2004 00:12, Dave Thorn wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du a

Re: apt cache obese?

On Friday 13 February 2004 00:20, Ray wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 16:37, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > > with du and f

Re: apt cache obese?

On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19, David wrote: [...] > that can be put in either ~/.aptitude/config or /etc/apt/apt.conf, > > Aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update That is useful - I'll give it a try. Thanks -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

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Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

On Friday 13 February 2004 20:51, Sam Halliday wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > > > > [oh yes: It hadn't occured to me that > > people here speak english.] > > why people still get annoyed about this kind of thing is bey

Re: debian sarge notebook

On Friday 14 February 2003 15:35, spinella wrote: > Non riesco ad installare la distibuzione in oggetto sul mio portatile hp > pavilion ze4354ea. In sostanza mi si pianta non appena compare la schermata > per la scelta della tastiera. Appena prima che questa schermata apparisse > avevo provato ad i

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17:03, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KG> People don't use command line any more? Hmm. I'm more familiar with the > KG> command line version of all my PCs / servers than i am with a mouse ;) > KG> She wants my body and you

Re: Not sure whatn I'm looking for (WWW related)

On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:13, Brett Carrington wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:10:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I run a small leased machine for my own web/mail services as well as > > anything else that strikes my fancy. I do provide a few mail accounts to > > friends and family

Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

On Thursday 19 February 2004 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-19, David Z Maze penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, > >> aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, >

Re: CLI

On Thursday 19 February 2004 16:04, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DTG> ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... > DTG> % i'll give you a hint. it's numerical binary, not alphabetical. > & DTG> % placement plays a role. > DTG> How about >

Re: Thanks

On Friday 20 February 2004 04:12, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 19 February 2004 19:12, Chris Metzler wrote: > > A lot of people come to testing that way (in fact, I did the same as > > you). But yeah, that's not quite right. > > I did

Kaddressbook suicide

Anyone else had problems with this lately? I upgraded sid a week or so ago and my whole address book in KDE vanished. I have been unable to work out where on the disk it is supposed to be to look for the old file -- it seems not to be in ~/.kde/share/apps, which is where I thought it might be.

Re: tar and excluding a directory

On Saturday 21 February 2004 16:07, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [...] > (I detest info; I particularly > detest the tar info, which requires multiple levels of digging to find > anything.) Hear! Hear! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

On Saturday 21 February 2004 16:57, Graham Campbell wrote: [...] > due to fuzzy thinking and fumble fingers, I no longer have the version that > caused the problem, so I cannot guess what the change was that caused the > problem. However the Mouse configuration entries were the same between the > t

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:52, Peter Billson wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > Rats! I've never had a wheel working under linux, and I was following > > this thread sure the solution would be revealed... > > Richard, > To make the wheel work under X change you

Re: Stolen debian logo?

On Sunday 22 February 2004 16:50, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:56AM -0500, David P James wrote: > > The Debian project would probably have grounds for copyright > > infringement since the logo is not being used to refer to the Debian > > project. > > Trademark. > > Sorry, I'm al

Re: Stolen debian logo?

On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:20, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > 1. > I would recommend against nitpicking with the " " missing from the "-- " > above your sig. It invites more of the same ;-) Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by th

Re: Stolen debian logo?

On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:53, John Hasler wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > I would recommend against nitpicking with the " " missing from the "-- " > > above your sig. > > ... > > Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being st

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

On Monday 23 February 2004 09:26, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Hm, more testing... trailing spaces on any line in the pager are > > > stripped, not just on sig dashes. That's annoying. Not that it's > > > happening,

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:07, David Purton wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know of a tool to add bookmarks to an existing pdf under > linux? Good question. I was about to ask here the more general question if anyone knows any pdf and/or ps editing tools. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

gimp2

My recent update of my sid system has brought a number of changes to my life, including gimp 2.0.0. Benjamin Sher's question to gimp experts prompts me to ask the same people for help. The new gui for gimp seems to me to have lost the elegant minimalism of the old. The various tool windows ar

Re: Can't stop apache Daemon

On Sunday 25 April 2004 07:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi mike, > > What kernel version are you running? > I have just updated to 2.6.5 and noticed a similar thing, but I am in > the middle of updating stable --> testing --> unstable using aptitude > and at some stage I noticed Out of memory error

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

On Sunday 25 April 2004 08:56, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:07, David Purton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know of a tool to add bookmarks to an existing pdf >

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:07, Jules Dubois wrote: [...] > I still have this question: > > If I can find some combination of installable or upgradable packages > which removes a "broken" condition, can I just go ahead and install > them? (I must have a reliable system for the next three weeks or s

Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)

On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:46, Deboo wrote: >I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now >using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it >hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being >news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists an

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

On Sunday 25 April 2004 11:09, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] > I know of three ways to edit PS/PDF files. The first requires running > a PS file through pstoedit, which can convert it to several editable > formats (such as xfig or svg). I had dismissed this rather hastily - partly because I know n

Re: Newbie question..

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 22:14, Silvan wrote: > On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:24 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I just installed debian from Knoppix-3.4 CD. Seems to work. > > > > I want to add tetex packages to the system. I read the man pages > > but picture is not clear. > > > > Would any some kind

Re: mouse doesnt work in console

On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:05, Andres LG wrote: > I cant use mouse in console, even though I installed gpm. > this is my /etc/gpm.conf > > device=/dev/psaux > responsiveness= > repeat_type=raw > type=imps2 > append="" > sample_rate= [...] Derek usually answers these - but he sounds a bit fed up with

Re: PS/2 Mouse Problem!

On Monday 10 May 2004 02:55, Kaveh Gh wrote: > Hi! (Again) > > In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, the mouse device has been > defined according to the following lines: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option

Re: Need Help

On Monday 10 May 2004 05:01, DaMoZ 666 wrote: > Hello. > I have a problem. After i successfully install debian, it comes up with a > debian login but its in a DOS sort of thing. I would like to know how to > switch to the graphic user-interface. Thank you for your time. Welcome! Have you tried lo

printer puzzle

I am constantly puzzled by printer configuration. Every time I get it right, I then discover that there are exceptions - applications that do not use the general settings. Can anyone explain to me why the gimp always has its own list of pinters and usually can print even when nothing else can

printer queue immortal - help!

Help! I have an epson stylus c62 local on a sid box. Mozilla sent it a raw postscript file as text. THis means dozens of pages of garbage. I tried to cancel the printjob: - from CLI as the user whose job it was - failed - from CLI as root - ditto - by deleting files from /var/spool/cups

Re: printer puzzle

On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:32, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [..] > > Mozilla does not print. It uses xprint exclusively, that is where > your problem lies: in what X believes your printers are. But if you > google for that you'll find this has been covered lots of times in > this list. Thanks - I'll do th

Re: Mutt's internal pager and accented characters

On Thursday 06 May 2004 21:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: [...] > > Where would I get legal values for LC_CTYPE? The instructions said to > > read my /etc/locale.gen file and what I have is definitely listed there. > > fr_CA ISO-8859-1 ..

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

On Friday 07 May 2004 01:51, Joost De Cock wrote: [...] > That's why you have to be in the chroot jail, to make sure your running the > lilo on your disk, and not the lilo on your knoppix cd. > > If you forgot to run lilo, just use knoppix again, check if all is ok in > lilo.conf and punch in the 4

ipod mount and udev

I'm sure someone here knows how to do this. Two days of trawling google have given me many examples to crib but none have worked. I recently acquired an ipod nano (2nd gen.) 4GB. With grip and gpod, or just with lame and a lot of painful manual renaming and gpod, I can put tracks from CDs on it.

Re: ipod mount and udev

On Fri, August 24, 2007 11:50, Wackojacko wrote: [...] The problem is, of course, that it doesn't >> always >> appear at /dev/sdb2, as it did at first. I have tried adding a file >> /etc/udev/rules.d/060-ipod.rules containing >> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="iPod", KERNEL="sd*", NAME="%k", >> SYM

Re: ipod mount error

OT and hijacking my own thread... Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch SOunds like a text message from a pickpocket to me. But it seems to indicate a problem that prevents unmounting/ejecting the ipod. I suppose, therefore that I am risking corru

big brother yahoo

It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements If you are having difficultie

using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

I've been trying to solve this for about three years now. Every few months, when I have a moment, I try again. It is not a specifically debian issue, but someone here must have a similar setup. I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it sucks least. But when I want

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] >> I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it >> sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail [...] >

what is /command directory?

I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command, package, servic

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sat, August 25, 2007 23:27, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > In the following I will assume that your ~/.ssh/config is set up such > that you can use "ssh myvm" to log in on the vm. (This allows me to keep > the command syntax simple and in any case I think it is a good approach > in practice.) I w

Re: what is /command directory?

On Sun, August 26, 2007 01:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/25/07 18:52, Richard Lyons wrote: >> I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% >> full. [...] > If /var is not in it's own partition, then "apt-get autoclean" will > free up

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

On Sun, August 26, 2007 02:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. >[...] >> I also notice a number >> of directories I've nev

Re: big brother yahoo

On Sat, August 25, 2007 19:57, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] >> I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some >> other software to browse the web. > > Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish > between

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sun, August 26, 2007 15:27, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:06:14AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Sat, August 25, 2007 23:27, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> > Mutt (or any >> > other MUA) on the local computer can now simply be configured to use &

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

On Sun, August 26, 2007 14:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Sun, August 26, 2007 02:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] >> $ df -h >> Fi

linux on ipod nano?

Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch Sounds to me like a text message from a pickpocket. But it seems to indicate a

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sun, August 26, 2007 17:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > I vaguely remember that I had difficulties > in the past when I tried to get exim4 to work over a forwarded port. The > most straightforward approach is to run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" > and select "local delivery only" (for system

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sun, August 26, 2007 17:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > or you can install the "msmtp" > package which provides a sendmail work-alike that is very easy to > configure. Here is an example configuration file (~/.msmtprc): > > #- > tls on > host localhost > port 2525 > fro

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> [...] >> I've just read the lvm howto and other stuff on 'Changing the Size of >> the LVM-Partitions' -- and I don't like the s

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > Maybe the smarthost does not use TLS (an encryption wrapper) because it > is only dealing with internal connections from trusted VMs. I would > start simple on the VM, with this ~/.msmtprc: > > #- > tls off > host

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:18, koffiejunkie wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: >> Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another >> thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: >> >> Does anybody understand the error I am gettin

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

by using port forwarding. ] Smart move -- thanks Florian. > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> How do I get to see the >> envelope msmtp is trying to send? > > Adding "logfile ~/.msmtp.log" to .msmtprc should give you more > informatio

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

On Mon, August 27, 2007 13:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> > Here there be dragons. Remember that your initrd will be set up to >> > start

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Mon, August 27, 2007 21:12, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 15:27:55 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> > It might be time to contact bytemark's technical support. >> >> You are probably right. I'll give them a call. > > Agreed. Call us,

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> [...] >> > #- >> > tls off >> > host FULLY_QUALIFIE

SOLVED: Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:03:36AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2007.08.28 13:41, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >> Done that.

ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > Method 2: > - > > You can set up mutt's sendmail command to use a short script which > invokes ssh to run sendmail on myvm directly. This requires that > sendmail works on myvm, though. The advantage is that you don't

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:29:00PM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >My nano is vfat. It mounts just fine. It is unmounting that is the > >problem. > > I missed the beginning of the thread, so forgive me if my reply isn't > much help. Supposi

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:36:38 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > > This is a test > > > file, what I am > > > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > > > > > It isn't a

Re: what is /command directory?

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:58:13AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:52 pm, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. > > I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 20:09:03 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > # activated by this option in ~/.muttrc: > > > # set sendmail=&q

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > I don't think you need port > forwarding if you have the remote execution of msmtp working, no matter > where you are. Just add your laptop's id_*.pub identities to > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the vm. Of course. It is amazin

a LaTeX question

Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount \def\yearly {12000} and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say \monthly=\yearly / 12 hoping to get the figure '1000' printed in the document by in

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:34:56PM -0500, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > My previous server used 100 Watts on average. > > > > If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, > > or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. > > > > Adam > > The number of hours per year that you used > in your

Re: a LaTeX question

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070901 06:21]: > > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it > > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount > > \def\

Re: a LaTeX question

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: > > On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > > > seen that recommendatio

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get > dist-upgrade" a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals > from tty1 to tty6 (i mean that nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+Fx). What do you have in /

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Richard Lyons: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > > > > > I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get > > > dist-upgrade" a few da

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:26:38PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Richard Lyons: > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > > > > > > > I'm using Etch with flux

(OT) EFF call for help against restrictive patents

EFF is trying to bust some more patents. In brief one is a patent on virtual domains, I think more or less as implemented by Apache for I don't know how long. Details are here: and more on the Patent Busting Project is here:

spam filter easy install

Can anybody point me to a reliable way to install basic spam filtering on a fresh etch install? I have again tried spamassassin, using the notes at http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/email.html to help with the installation, but have had to purge spamassassin and clamav and all related

Re: spam filter easy install

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 05:05:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (19/11/06 13:14), Richard Lyons wrote: > > Can anybody point me to a reliable way to install basic spam filtering on a > > fresh etch install? [...] > > I put up some notes on a mail server with a sect

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:31:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > > correctly read: the l

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:56:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > G.W. Haywood wrote: > > ~$> echo "24 * 365.25" | bc > > 8766.00 > > > > but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use of some system > > tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :) > > While I am a long time bc user and w

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:37:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:08 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > Gtkpod has two strange charactistics, but seems to be ususally > > workable. The oddities are > > > > - if you create an extr

another script query (perl?)

Hi, all you script wizards. I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib from... I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a table that may or may not span newline characters in the file. Basically, there are lines of the form {some text} & {s

Re: another script query (perl?)

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:19:17AM -0700, tabris wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > Hi, all you script wizards. > > > > I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib > > from... > > > > I need a script to read a text file (actually

Re: another script query (perl?)

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:26:50AM -0700, tabris wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:19:17AM -0700, tabris wrote: > > > > > >> Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > >>>{some text} & {some more text} & {text c} & {text d

SOLVED: another script query (perl?)

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:26:50AM -0700, tabris wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:19:17AM -0700, tabris wrote: > >> Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > >>> I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a > >>&

Re: another script query (perl?)

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:30:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:04:50 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a > > table that may or may not sp

Re: Real problem with debian user is NOT spam, but that posts don' t get posted.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:54:05PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Mumia W.. wrote: > > > On 09/10/2007 02:46 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 18:41:15 -, J wrote: > >>> Real problem with debian user is not spam, but that posts don' t get > >>> po

Re: Real problem with debian user is NOT spam, but that posts don' t get posted.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:14:58AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >I've never heard of it before either, even though I've been here on and > >off for years. On the other hand, I've never seen a problem posting, or > >been aware that there

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Thanx for your replies. > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. > > As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more > specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:38 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > Thanx for your replies. > > >

mail messages with only html

This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on sending blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is usually a sign of spam, and I usually delete such messages without wasting time wondering

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > could I in p

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron John

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. > > If you c

Re: mail messages with only html

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:55:46PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script > > to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs > > w

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:29:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before > > starting on that though. Procmail scares me. > > What about maild

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:50:13PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided > the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the > message first to another folder; then they run the message contents > through lynx

Re: mail messages with only html

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:54:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:32:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:42:00PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into > message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message > first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx. Jude thanks for your

Re: mail messages with only html

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:18:08PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I fail to see why you couldn't write a filter (using maildrop or > >> procmail) to pipe the message through w3m -dump (or links -du

Re: html email

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:01:21AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime > attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through > uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using that procmail stuff > may solve t

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