cron.daily/exim: "failed to open DB file..." what's this about?

i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to fix it (or if it needs fixing): /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid argument failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Invalid argument run-pa

KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state...) failed

Possible Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion ((1

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

newbies rcconf - Debian Runlevel configuration tool and it's been findable all along. (sheesh!) now if we can get it to munge, say, rc3.d differently from rc5.d ... :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DE

OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?

i've got apache offering ssl on port :443, but haven't published that fact anywhere -- yet i've gotten a hit from mit.edu, and it's not even a from-the-top entry? i've got apache-perl going, and mod_ssl is even cooperating. so, all is wonderful in linux-land... the secure port is not published an

Re: OT: Eudora/Mac 5.x users needed

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:12:45PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > If you use Eudora/Mac 5.x and would be willing to do me a small favour > (i.e. helping me figure out how to connect to IMAP or POP3 via SSL > with my courier installation), please contact me privately. I'll owe > you a favour! have

Re: Free fonts

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > Could anybody help me out in just how you install a font under X? well, what *i* did was apt-get install xfonts-scalable apt-get install freefont then to figure out where to look for more info, dpkg -L freefo

Re: jack: coding failed, error#32512

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:21:18AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > PS I hit g (the group response in mutt) and it came up with your email > address. Normally, it comes up with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If > this doesn't show up on the user list, I'll re-post it and overwrite the > address next time. if

Re: firewall -- best practices

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:08:15PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have been using ipCop on a P133 with dsl, no problems at > all, *very easy* to setup. (if the machine has a bootable cd > drive) i was using ipcop until i found out they mostly lifted code from smoothwall.org; so i tried smoothwal

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

N.B. my perspective comes from my setup -- see sig below. ymmv... On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:11:03PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:44:55PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > SpamAssassin just tags the mail. You need to use procmail or > > similar to decide what to do wit

Re: nslookup --- which package?

Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #19 from Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : How do you determine WHICH NETWORK SERVICES ARE OPEN (active)? Try "netstat -a | grep LISTE

Re: Free fonts

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:23:24AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Will Trillich sez: > > ...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > > didn't change, even after restarting (and the stopping, > > cold, and re-starting from scratch) the x window server.

Re: Free fonts

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:49:56PM +, Steve Webster wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > > xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont > > > >...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > >didn't change, even after restarting (and the stopping, cold, >

Re: Free fonts

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:11:26AM -0900, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Feb-19 23:30 AKST]: > > xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont > > > > ...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > > didn't

Re: sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:45:59PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Is there an easy way to decode a snarfed SSL session given > that he has the server's private key? Theoretically it's > possible, but I wonder if any of the popular sniffing/IDS > tools facilitate it. but the odd part is, they didn't

Re: OT: Eudora/Mac 5.x users needed

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:50:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.20.0921 +0100]: > > have you been able to get the ssl running with exim? i'm still > > trying to tackle getting the tls/ssl feature going... > &g

Re: tunnelling -- best practices

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:44:37AM -0500, jereme wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system > > I always thought this was an *excellent* footer. "...like spending five years learning to configure it." sure, it does

exim trouble with DB file...

ool directory and still no luck. any pointers appreciated. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #68 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : So you've installed Debian/GNU Linux -- NOW WHAT? For som

free-range (but certanily not domestic) FONTS problem continue

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:44:10AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:59:57PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > > why don't my new fonts show up? i think i've tried just about > > everything suggested, so far... :( > > The foolproof way: > 1) Dro

kernel woes?

D|TCPF_CLOSE_WAIT|TCPF_CLOSE)) failed at af_inet.c(689) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use? There&#x

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

ck for spam. sequence matters. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #24 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Curious about DISK PARTITIONING schemes? That's a frequent topic at debian-user -

Re: Exim error

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:21:45PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Eduardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030225 11:08]: > > Hi people, my exim (now after some more configurations done) I'm > > receving this kind of error in my exim log. > > Any knows what is this ? > > > > > > 2003-02-25 13:38:08 18nE7f-0

Re: Newbie administrator

Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #8 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Search for Debian PACKAGES online with this shortcut: http://packages.debian.org/ If you can't find it right off, just hop to the

Re: Newbie administrator

"R ute U sers T utorial and E xposition" and he just sent me a smiley. i'm guessing it's a homonym with a spelling different enough to make googling much simpler. hmm? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unkn

Re: exim trouble with DB file... SOLVED

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:49:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. >

debian-friendly mason-cm package?

i'm looking to install HTML::Mason's "content management" features via *.deb, hopefully-- i've got apt-get install libhtml-mason-perl and i've since discovered that HTML::Mason also offers a content management toolbox of sorts, so i'd like to try it out -- but # apt-cache search

Re: glob(7) man page is confusing

and its behavior may be a bit different from the glob routine described in man 7. your shell will also have all kinds of extras that you can turn on or off or just generally fiddle with. (the cool part is, i didn't even know a) glob had its own manpage, let alone two (sections 3 and 7) and

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown (2 matched ipmasq) DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #21 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to configure your Debian NETWORK SETTINGS? Look at the file /etc/network/interfaces (try "man interfaces" for more info). Then "ifup -a&q

Re: more on 1 liner perl/awk

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:18:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > (All of this is untested.) > perl -lane'print$F[2]if$F[1]eq"1957"' < mat.txt > > Shorter solutions may be possible. > > Google for "Perl Golf" if you're interested in this kind of thing: the > art of solving problems in the fewest

Re: Newbie questions

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:02:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'more' can't go back when reading from standard input. Try > > installing 'less' instead; it's a better pager in other ways > > anyway. > > Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have > turned my nose up at that, u

spam settings (5mb "nei-group" email every few minutes!)

anned, but there's no X-Spam-Level headers or any other spamassassin fingerprints on it. odd!) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #23 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Wondering what you should

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:11:27PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > As others have noted, virus traffic is not actually the same as > spam-traffic, and you might want a particular tool for each job... > > That being said, what worked for me was to grab a backport of > spamassassin 2.55 for woody from ht

Re: OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:07:05PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > Or I could take the plunge and switch to an address on my own > domain, on my own mailserver. (The current one is hosted by my > ISP.) But if I do that, I'll be all tempted to upgrade to > exim4 with the funky integration with SA to do SM

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > | I'm finding with vim as my mail editor I jump in and out of insert mode > | for things that are kind of basic. I miss from Nano: > | > | Control-A/Contrl-E fo

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:44:52PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:24:26PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > where's the list of all the tests, and what they do? man > > Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf tells about customization directives, > > bu

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:43:44PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle > > > | paste mode in Vim) > > > > another approach could be > > :

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

n gauntlet. not disappointed, only surprised. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #40 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are ROOT LOGINS EVIL? The main problem is this: if you have a handfu

Re: Black Holes.

si newbie to Debian also. I would reccommend > that you learn all about apt-get. This is a Really > Powerful Tool. http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN N

Re: vim and french accents

[Æ] is as you'd expect, but ^K E A [Æ] still works. = > -- > -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) his tome "the law" should be annual required reading for anyone expecting to live in a civilized nation. it should also be weekly required reading for any felons

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > Lately, I do more email than anything else so I figured that using vim > for email would be a good way to learn. quite! > And it's really got me cu

GRUB -- hangs on boot

any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after the bios stuff, and then... nothing. a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, hang on bo

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > just do: > > startx -- :1 -screen but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor c

Re: kill with regex?

try man pidof :) On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Jor-el wrote: > >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > >>>Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would

Re: vim and basic .bashrc questions

mmand not found better than losing a file you really didn't want to delete. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #66 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Do you know WHICH SHELL YOU'RE RUNN

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me > > Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:28:39PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > | the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > I bet you don&

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:56PM +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > Can you type at this point? Maybe

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:01:25AM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: > Did you check the file device.ma

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:23:27AM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:32:30PM +, Tim wrote: > > Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > > > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > > > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR > > Wh

OT: march 2002 article on debian

y'all see this? http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-03&article=debian more press like this wouldn't hurt. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #77 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:52:09PM -0800, Jay wrote: > Headless??? > > What part of the machine constitute the 'head'? they mean "faceless" of course. no video/monitor driven from the machine. instead, you can use the serial port if you know the voodoo required. headless would be a monitor, keyb

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > That still doesn't work for me ... > > > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: mplayer* > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > # Pac

Re: Memory usage on debian

#x27;ve got 512mb of ram -- and you don't want to use it, is that right? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #10 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to run a command or two at REGULAR I

Re: regexp help

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:49PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:43, andrej hocevar wrote: > > [Which made my script almost think you were a spammer 8-)] > > > Sorry about that :-) It didn't occur to me, but I bet it was filtered > out on a lot of boxes! my (woody) spamassassin

OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

okay, i used to know how these makefiles worked, but that was a few lifetimes ago... :( i'm doing many iterations on the edit-run-edit cycle in creating a postgresql 7.2.1 (woody) and thought that make would be able to help keep my inter-dependencies in line. of course, there's no "object" file a

Re: OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:27:15PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > My solution was to use a dummy .$(SCRIPT)-run.stamp file - and use the > timestamp on this file to remember when $(SCRIPT).sql was last run: > > #/usr/bin/make -f > SQLFILES = fns.sql person.sql dates.sql > STAMPFILES = $(SQLFILE

freshly-upgraded kernel 2.4.20 -- went like a dream

X-uptime: 10:47:50 up 19:59, 1 user, load average: 0.08 what a delight it is to work under the debian umbrella. i'll get lulled into complacency if you folks keep this up. it was such a seamless upgrade i'm thinking of not waiting 180 days next time. :) after all, it's good to fsk those file

Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!

does this [see attachment] indicate that some spammer has found a way to get me to relay his mail? aaugh! this looks bad. i have serensoft.com running in my basement on a woody (and freshly-upgraded 2.4.20-k6 kernel) and i allow pop3 and smtp connections for my serensoft mail users. passwords are

what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H

Re: M$ Curse

1) respond with assistance or inquiries, or 2) don't respond. given the nature of the question, your response wouldn't be likely to help much, i'm guessing. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #

Re: "debian rookie" trying to get his bearings...

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:41:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:45:21AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > man update-rc.d > > No, wrong. Just rename the file. update-rc.d is used for script > automation. it's not "wrong". in fact it's more likely to result in a stab

about RUNLEVELs -- was "debian rookie"

em. update-rc.d is a good way to keep the debian package system up-to-date on your intentions. (sure, you may manually rename or remove enough files to stop the service from auto-starting, but a future `apt-get upgrade` may -- or may not -- undo all your hard work, if you work outside the packagin

Re: apt-get

r 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #6 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : How do you keep text from SCROLLING BY TOO DAMN FAST? :) Before pressing the ENTER key of a command that you know will generate a lot of output, "pipe" it thro

Re: Backup Consensus?

or two you'd care to share? :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #48 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To peruse your CURRENT VIM SETTINGS (there's LOTS of them) from within Vim, sim

Re: Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:10:33PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Something that I recommend for anyone putting a mail server > on the 'net that's open to the public is to telnet to > 'relay-test.mail-abuse.org' *FROM* the mail server. The > remote host will run a series of tests to see if your sys

Re: Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:26:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:09:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | does this [see attachment] indicate that some spammer has found > | a way to get me to relay his mail? aaugh! > > No. It mean

Re: Backup Consensus?

ob, shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant north-americaner? :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) consi

Re: sit (compressed files)

short version: http://stuffit.com/expander On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > My silly designer just sent me an .sit file. Does anyone know if this can > be expanded in debian? those silly designers seem to like their silly macs. (i know i sure do...) aladdin sys

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to > > use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody > > server...) > > what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot

ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Which COMMANDS pertain to ? Try "apropos ", "info ", and "man -k ". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: M$ Curse

posting suggestions to the list, just make sure you include some meat with the broth... :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Is there a good place to learn snar

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: > On 2003.01.27 19:20 Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:27, will trillich wrote: > >> i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > >> plugged it in -- but i ca

Re: Bunch of musicians in a tent [was: Re: Gimp Print Problem]

ind more ways to help... :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #31 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ever wonder why Debian STABLE SEEMS OUT-OF-DATE? It's because it's STABLE! When enou

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:00:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm _not_ suggesting you just do > > > > # umount /var/cache > > # rm /var/cache > > Not quite - rm won't remove a directory, and you don't want to anyway. > "rm /var/cache/

Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

ying to get along with bash but i keep getting my forehead bashed in with that syntax. it's just me, i know... -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #53 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

what's wrong with rsync?

what's wrong with rsync? i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can tell, rsync sure looks like "the bomb". any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better? i'll be backing up the usual stuff (/etc /home ... and /var/backups with pg_dump output in them...)

OT: "S1G" (was Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31)

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > > is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? > > 1970-01-01 is time

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

e next button until you get to the beginning of the next section.) > > Hopefully this was helpful for someone. :) sooner or later, it will be. with luck, we'll find (and keep) more folks like you. keep posting. sharing knowledge -- that's what it's all about! -- I use Debian/GN

moo

$ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... can't say that i have. this is almost as cute as some of those mac easter eggs. what's the story beh

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob, > > shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant > > north-americaner? :) >

Re: what's fstype 83? &quot;Linux&quot;?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote: > > will trillich said: > > > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than > > > september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm

Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?

okay, i just zapped most of this thread yesterday, and now i go back to look for it and it's not yet on geocrawler, and it's not yet on lists.debian.org either... what's the sequence for establishing WHY apt is holding packages back from being upgraded, again? :) thanks! -- I use Debian/GNU Li

exim and relaying -- for ONE user

looking for a way to accept HARDLY ANY relays -- hopefully more than just "anybody from worldnet.att.net"... i've got a partner who'd like to be able to send email from serensoft.com -- but he's way out in the northeast using worldnet.att.net, and i'm way out here in the midwest using podunk-isp-r

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

9:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #52 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Would you like to GET APACHE TO HIDE CERTAIN FILES? It's as easy as adding this to your /etc/apache/httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Constants SetHandler perl-script PerlInitHandle

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Are you still using exim 3? (probably, the DD is behind on the releases) yup -- server ESMTP Exim 3.35 #1 Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:43:20 -0600 [whatever's standard on woody...] root: /etc/exim# exim -bh 24.128.69.142

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > | > SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate. > | >

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:07:55PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >anybody got a pointer to an english version of how to set up > >smtp authentication via exim 3.3? > > I won't pretend to own a clue, myself. Maybe you should try > the O'Reilly book, _Exim_, "Official Guide For Release 3", by > Phili

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:10:52PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote: As for your > earlier post about the auth not working, have you checked to > see if you have libpam-pwdfile installed? I just set up SMTP > plain auth last night f

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

5:05am? whassa matter, couldn't sleep? (that's *my* problem -- one of them, anyway...) On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:05:32AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > It's a very complicated and technical discovery process that I > have dubbed "guessing". :) (Actually, the best way is to use > exim -bh to test

Secure Relaying -- a start

out authentication -- it'd all be unavailable (non-configured) anyhow, right? at least -- that's my setup, as i understand it, so far. today. not applicable in all areas. offer valid for a limited time. some restrictions apply. see store for details. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES? One of my favorites is http://webtechniques.com, where Randall Schwartz contributes a

ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, now... doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your private keys to the remote box and then

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:40:10PM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > auth_always_advertise > > > > Type: boolean > > Default: true > > > > This option is available only when Exim is compiled with > >

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:25:31AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote: > ... > > As an example, another useful (for me) addition to the inputrc is > > this one: > > > > # Ctrl-Left/Right jumps wordwise on cmd line > > "\e[D": backward

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

ine with the username and > password of all the machines you connect to. at what point are the passphrases required? if passwordless login/scp is the objective, where are the passphrases used? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unkno

Re: Building an IMAP server

[OP] >> + Users may be real users on the server. --- Are there good reasons >> against this? On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:07:41PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > I'm not sure why you feel the need to create user accounts on the machine > itself. It seems a bit of a security nightmare to me. Vmailmgr

vim ":make" -- "unmatched `" error

i'm in vim, i'm editing like a madman (nothing else explains it) and i write out my changes :w and then i do a make: :make which displays <== blank line, here> Unmatched `. all up-to-date <== blank line, again>

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:14:28PM +, Ed Lawson wrote: > >will trillich wrote: > > > >> > >>yep. try uncommenting one of them (if it happens to refer to > >>/etc/exim/passwd then you need to set that up properly to > >>match) > >> &g

Re: vim ":make" -- "unmatched `" error

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:22:27PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030201 20:11]: > > <== blank line, here> > > Unmatched `. > > all up-to-date > > <== blank line, again> > &

vpn recommendation?

debianists: not to start a religious war (famous last words) but which woody-friendly vpn packages would y'all recommend? i'd like to hear about config troubles, feature holes, proprietary gotchas, etc. i looked into some of these on potato and had just enou

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:09:22AM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > now if you get PAM to cooperate, let me know. > > > > plain: > > driver = plaintext > > public_name = BASIC

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