USB Floppy installation
Hi, I have a computer that I wish to install debian to. The problem is that the only bootable device I have is a usb floppy drive, I have a usb cd-rom as well, but not bootable. I wan't to be able to boot the installation from my usb floppy and the continue to use the cd-rom och even a net-install. I have tried to boot with a rescue floppy, but when I insert the root-image, it crashes. Any ideas anyone, cause I've all out... /Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Floppy installation
I tried that, but I couldn't get those images to work... any special arguments I should need to post to boot:? /Peter On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:52:41PM +0000, peter a wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > I have a computer that I wish to install debian to. The problem is that > > the only bootable device I have is a usb floppy drive, I have a usb cd-rom > > as well, but not bootable. > > > > I wan't to be able to boot the installation from my usb floppy and the > > continue to use the cd-rom och even a net-install. > > > > I have tried to boot with a rescue floppy, but when I insert the > > root-image, it crashes. > > > > Any ideas anyone, cause I've all out... > > /Peter > > Well, you could RTFM! > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-from-floppies > > See the link for usb boot floppies. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Floppy installation
But that would only work with the so far unstable Sarge-release? As this is a server install I would prefer a stable release.. or is it possible to use the installer too boot a Woody installation? /peter a On 2004-01-17 16:10, Damon L. Chesser wrote: peter a wrote: SNIP Peter: have you tried the debian installer? http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ dont know if they have a image specificaly for you, but it might be worth a look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making a Debian Kernel Patch
Hi all, I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed here, and the dh-kpatches.html file and man dh_installkpatches are totally confusing me at this point in time. I'm trying to find a way to get the Via EPIA kernel patch into a standard Debian patch form to apply to a custom kernel. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, the patch is for extra features in the Via EPIA Nehemiah and C3 CPU's and my new mail server has one of these boards (V1) in it, so I'd like to be able to get it to run optimally with the CPU. I can't seem to find any suitable information on how to go from the vanilla kernel patch to a debian patch like, for example, the kernel-patch-mppe (which I will also be using). Running man dh_installkpatches says it needs "debian/package.kpatches", which I take to mean that in the directory containing my patch, I create a directory called debian, and in this file place a file called something like via-epia.kpatches, containing the necessary lines as outlined in the man page. I have done this, and dh_installkpatches complains of not having a control file, of which I can find no reference in the man page. Anyway, I do realise that I'm doing the wrong thing, and am lacking the knowledge of exactly what it is I'm supposed to be doing, but I'm having trouble locating information telling me how to go about this. Can someone head me in the right direction as to where to find this information? Thanks in advance, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Sarge Routing
Hi all, I'm trying to get very basic routing happening between two locally connected subnets on Debian Sarge. I'm doing some disaster recovery planning at work which requires me to test some replication with two subnets connected by an IPSec tunnel, but for my testing I'm just routing between the two using VMWare. Anyway, in my Debian virtual machine, I have 2 NIC's configured as shown below, with IP forwarding turned on. /etc/network/options: ip_forward=yes spoofprotect=yes syncookies=no /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 172.16.1.0 broadcast 172.16.1.255 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 172.16.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 172.16.2.0 broadcast 172.16.2.255 On both of the other virutal machines, they are set up with the appropriate gateway address of 172.16.1.1 and 172.16.2.1. >From the machine on 172.16.1.10, I can ping 172.16.1.1 and 172.16.2.1, but I cannot >ping the machine on 172.16.2.10. >From the machine on 172.16.2.10, I can ping 172.16.2.1, but not 172.16.1.1 or the >other machine on 172.16.1.10. Am I doing something wrong here by just enabling IP forwarding to allow the routing to occur? Or do I need something like Quagga for this to work? Regards, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge Routing
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:12:46 +1000 "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get very basic routing happening between two locally connected subnets > on Debian Sarge. > > I'm doing some disaster recovery planning at work which requires me to test some > replication with two subnets connected by an IPSec tunnel, but for my testing I'm > just routing between the two using VMWare. > > Anyway, in my Debian virtual machine, I have 2 NIC's configured as shown below, with > IP forwarding turned on. > > /etc/network/options: > > ip_forward=yes > spoofprotect=yes > syncookies=no > > /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 172.16.1.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 172.16.1.0 > broadcast 172.16.1.255 > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 172.16.2.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 172.16.2.0 > broadcast 172.16.2.255 > > On both of the other virutal machines, they are set up with the appropriate gateway > address of 172.16.1.1 and 172.16.2.1. > > >From the machine on 172.16.1.10, I can ping 172.16.1.1 and 172.16.2.1, but I cannot > >ping the machine on 172.16.2.10. > > >From the machine on 172.16.2.10, I can ping 172.16.2.1, but not 172.16.1.1 or the > >other machine on 172.16.1.10. > > Am I doing something wrong here by just enabling IP forwarding to allow the routing > to occur? Or do I need something like Quagga for this to work? > > Regards, > > Pete > Sorry, I forgot to also mention that I had run these two commands which produced exactly the same results as above: route add -net 172.16.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.16.2.1 route add -net 172.16.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.16.1.1 Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to Mozilla Firebird? I'm running Sarge on an old P200MMX with 160MB RAM, but Firebird still chews up a little too much memory. I've gone down the Blackbox window manager path and am planning on using Sylpheed for email which seems lightweight enough for my purposes. So far, I think Galeon may be similar to Firebird, but I think it will want Gnome installed, which I definitely don't want to run. Any ideas at all? Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "Simon Huggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:21 PM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:17:21PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to > > Mozilla Firebird? > > dillo is very lightweight but not very featureful. I guess it depends > where your cutoff lies. > > -- > Simon Huggins \ Cows turn themselves inside out all the time. - Officer, > \ South Park > http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22 > Thanks Simon, the second recommendation for dillo. I shall have to look at it! Tom, in relation to your comments on less features and GTK 1... I think less features would be fine, I don't do anything complex, just general browsing, google searches, etc. Although I would need cookies and Java script I believe. Are there any impacts of GTK 1? I'm not sure about that sort of thing at all... And sorry to both of you for replying directly instead of to the list... can't wait to be rid of Outlook Express. Thanks guys, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird > > Just check it out then. I'm quite sure dillo knows how to handle > cookies. Javascript might be a different thing, though... Not sure. > I've just installed it and yep, it's quick!! I'll have to leave Firebird installed though as I can't do Internet banking with it. No support for https by the looks :-( I haven't been to any pages requiring java script yet, but we'll see how it goes. The main thing is, I can access my favourite motorcycle news page, so that's all that really counts... and it's so much faster too! > > Well -- impacts... Except that it's butt-ugly, not really. :-) But don't > be surprised when using dillo: it's plain and ugly. Doesn't render HTML > to it's full extent (frames? :-p), but I enjoy using it on slower > machines... > I can see what you mean about butt-ugly compared with things like Firebird, but given my tendency towards console rather than GUI for most things, it doesn't offend me in the slightest > Greets, > Tom > > PS: Didn't actually mean to reply to you personally instead of only to > the list, but it happens to me all the time. :-) > And here I was thinking I was the only one suffering from having to hit Reply All then deleting the individual recipient and leaving the list only... so it's not only Outlook Express that does it hey? I'm amazed! Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "Jan Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:58 PM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird > * Peter A. Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to Mozilla > > Firebird? > > I'm running Sarge on an old P200MMX with 160MB RAM, but Firebird still chews > > up a little too much memory. > > Opera. > > empty: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 25935 jan9 0 24600 24m 11m S 0.0 4.8 0:02.13 opera > with 12 open pages: > 25935 jan9 0 39268 38m 12m S 0.0 7.6 0:24.05 opera > > Jan > Thanks Jan, that's nice and lean! I was originally avoiding Opera due to the cost thing, but I'll get the free version for now and see how it goes. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "Michael Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:58:50 +0100, Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Peter A. Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to >> Mozilla >> Firebird? >> I'm running Sarge on an old P200MMX with 160MB RAM, but Firebird still >> chews >> up a little too much memory. > > Opera. > Just keep in mind that Opera grabs idle memory for use in caching. It readily gives it up when other applications need it, though. Opera has a .deb on their download site. Michael I'm downloading it now Michael to have a look see. Unfortunately, Dillo is a little too restrictive in features at the moment, but when it's a little more along the development cycle I think it'll be an excellent browser. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird > * [28/02/2004 02:47] Peter A. Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Unfortunately, Dillo is a little too restrictive in features at the > > moment, but when it's a little more along the development cycle I think > > it'll be an excellent browser. > > I'm not sure at all, but I wouldn't hope for it to get more features > soonish. I've known it in the state it's in for about two years, now. > :-) > > Greets, > Tom > You did it again Tom :-) I noticed on the site they're talking about another 12 months to get it where I need it to be. If I had lots of $$$ I'd make a donation to help! Also, I noticed by default in Sylpheed when you hit reply, it makes the list the recipient, not the individual poster, unlike Outlook Express and obviously mutt. My next step is to get all my mail onto the Debian box, then all will be very happy indeed :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
- Original Message - From: "David P James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:34 AM Subject: Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird > > There's Skipstone, but for some reason it does not appear to be in the > Debian repository anymore, which is unfortunate since it appears to be > what you're after - Gecko rendering, uses gtk without Gnome and without > all the XUL overhead of Firefox and Mozilla. It also has a decent slate > of modern browsing features - tabbed browsing, bookmark toolbar, > downloading via wget, configuration of mail handlers, etc. It may have > been removed since there have been no apparent updates since June 2002 > - just a few months before Phoenix (now Firefox) was first released... > > http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ > > -- > David P James > Ottawa, Ontario > http://david.jamesnet.ca > Hi David, Skipstone does look good, but it does look like it's a little out of development at the moment. There's no news or anything since then, so maybe the developer's had a lack of interest or something. Oh well, looks like I'll have to stick with a combination of dillo and firebird at this stage as I really don't like the look and feel of Opera at all. Thanks for the mention though, I'll keep it in the back of my mind if it ever enters redevelopment. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:24:29 -0500 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been some time since I last used Sylpheed, but one can set specific > reply-to behaviours for each mail directory. For a GUI client Sylpheed > isn't too bad -- Too bad it isn't a threaded client though. I disliked > the fact that one couldn't read mail, while it was initiating a > connection. Geez even Mozilla does that. > > -- > Stephen Hi Stephen, when you say it isn't threaded, are you referring just to the fact that the messages in each thread aren't displayed together? If so, the default view in Sylpheed here is threaded. If you're referring to something different, then I'm not sure :-) And from what I can see so far, it should be able to check mail while I'm reading it as well, but I'll tell you after I've used it for a bit. And, by the way, this is the first message I've sent to the list using Sylpheed, so we'll see how it looks! Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fetchmail Query
Hi all, I'm experiencing a minor issue with fetchmail 6.2.4. There is one message in my mailbox at my ISP that fetchmail sees but won't delete or anything. When it goes to retrieve this message, it has an NDR message: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve. This is obviously a spam anyway, but I don't want it sitting in my mailbox. What I'm not sure about is whether it's a fetchmail issue or if mimedefang/spamassassin/sendmail is preventing this from being deleted. I tried a Google search, but nothing appeared that was similar to this problem, so does anyone have any tips on where to start? The log files don't seem to give much away on this either unfortunately... Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:21:01 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't tell us what the full mailchain is - where is fetchmail feeding. > > It looks like whatever fetchmail is passing this to, it is rejecting the > sender address, because it can't look it up, and so fetchmail is not > delivering it and leaving it where it is. > > > > > -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Alan, I didn't did I? Sorry, still getting used to posting relevant info in these messages without confusing myself :-) Anyway, fetchmail retrieves mail from my ISP from 2 accounts, then delivers it to sendmail which filters it via mimedefang/spamassassin/clamd to get rid of spam and virii. In this case it would be sendmail rejecting it I would guess. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:00:08 -0500 Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dont know if this is the right solution for you, however, I have in the > past had problems with fetchmail refusing to fetch a msg from my ISP due to what it > deemed to be incorrect headers. > > When this occurs, I manually delete it using a telnet session. The port for POP is > 110, so the basic flow is something like this. > > telnet my.isp.pop-server 110 > trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > connected to my.isp.pop-server > escape character is '^]' > +OK > USER myid > +OK > PASS secret > +OK > STAT > +OK 0 0 > LIST x <--- where x is the message number > RETR x <--- try to look at the message > DELE x <--- to delete the message > QUIT > > HTH > Lou > Hi Lou, I've also used this method in the past, although I do it slightly differently. I do a "top x 10" after the list to get a preview and determine if it's spam or a virus or whatever, then do a dele. In this particular case, I have done that to see what the message is, and it's spam, but I as the machine fetchmail/sendmail/etc. is on is my home mail server, I want it to get rid of these things without my intervention. Thanks for your tip anyway though, somebody else may not have known this :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:54:24 +0100
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this error message comes from your MTA side e.g. in my case sendmail. In
> cf.README you find:
>
> [...]
>
> Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily)
> rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted
> (which is discouraged) then you can use
>
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> C{ResOk}TEMP
>
> sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not
> fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you
> want to continue to accept such senders, use
>
> FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')
>
> [...]
Hmm, thanks Oliver, this is more than likely where I need to be heading I think.
Obviously, I did the Google search, but not the mandatory man stuff :-)
Do you think it's safe to enable this feature? In relation to this particular email I
know it will be rejected by mimedefang anyway, so I guess it's the only real way to
get the message out of my ISP's mailbox and rejected by mimedefang.
>
> In man fetchmail you find:
>
> [...]
>
> RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES
>The protocols fetchmail uses to talk to mailservers are next to bulletproof.
> In normal operation forwarding
>to port 25, no message is ever deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the
> host until the SMTP listener on
>the client side has acknowledged to fetchmail that the message has been
> either accepted for delivery or
>rejected due to a spam block.
>
> [...]
>
> To avoid fetchnmail from keeping this spam in your ISP's email account
> add this feature to your sendmail.mc and recreate it.
>
> Oliver
All makes sense to me now. Thanks for that. I need to learn some more about all these
services I'm using, then I mightn't need to ask stupid questions in future :-)
Pete
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Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:42:37 -0700 CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also tell fetchmail to use a different mda for a single session > to pipe it through a procmail for those troublesome messages. Something > like: > fetchmail --mda /usr/bin/procmail > IIRC > > Check the fetchmail info for exact syntax and warnings about > restrictions on the MDA. > > HTH > > -- > Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux --- The best things in life are free! > Thanks Chris, although I think I'll go down the path Oliver suggested as using procmail won't send it through mimedefang to get rid of it due to it being spam. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:57:01 -0500 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No it doesn't thread the processes. In other words one can't do anything > while one is downloading e-mail. The application is locked, until that > I/O finishes. Ahh ok, in that case this situation has been resolved. I can receive email while viewing messages, replying, etc. with no dramas at all, unless you manually hit the "Get" or "Get All" buttons. If you let it retrieve mail in the background, there's no interference that I can see. > > Give it a month or two to evaluate properly. One (in my view) can't > properly evaluate any application in a shorter period, unless some basic > feature is missing, than perhaps one can. > Yes, most definitely. As you say, the only way you can reject an application immediately is if it is missing a core feature you use every time. If it's something you don't do often, then you don't notice until you get that far. I have found one very niggly little "issue" so to speak. When migrating from Outlook Express, I exported my address book as a CSV file, however Sylpheed only imports LDIF formats. In my case, I only have 14 addresses anyway, so I'll just manually enter them, but for people with large address books this could be a problem. I've seen via a Google search that there are scripts to convert these files though, so it may not be such an issue in the long run. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim4 and Message could not be sent because its size exceeded the server's limit
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:48:53 + Charlie Grosvenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just upgraded to exim4 and now I cannot send large messages (50mb), I > have increased the limit in the file: > > /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs > > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 1000M > > and updated the main configuration file update-exim4.conf and restarted exim > and it makes no difference. How do I go about getting rid of this limit? > > Thank you > Hi Charlie, It may not be your server rejecting the message, unless of course it's rejecting the instant you try to send it. Generally, most servers don't allow messages above 3, 5, or 10MB due to the load it imposes on the server. The size of the email you are trying to send is huge, can you not break it up a bit? I manage mail servers in a Windows environment at work (so my Linux mail server knowledge is quite limited) and I am constantly having to explain to users why 50, 100, 500MB email messages are not being sent or received. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:14:56 + Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see looming is to spend > about a third as much as I paid for the entire machine on a totally > unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three ports and only > have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small). > > Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more seriously in > future won't I?! > > TIA, > > Chris > Hi Chris, is the card supported in a later kernel version? Say 2.4.24? If it is, then there's no harm in getting the kernel source and using the make oldconfig to keep your existing kernel configuration and then adding in support for your card. At least, that's the way I'd do it. I'm also used to using old hardware, so I always compile a custom kernel to reduce overheads due to lack of memory etc. My mail server is currently a dual Pentium 166 with 176MB RAM and my workstation is a Pentium Pro 200MMX with 160MB RAM. I'm dreading the day I can afford to get my hardware up to date :-) Of course, if the driver isn't available in any kernel, that's a different story. HTH Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:54:24 +0100
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this error message comes from your MTA side e.g. in my case sendmail. In
> cf.README you find:
>
> [...]
>
> Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily)
> rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted
> (which is discouraged) then you can use
>
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> C{ResOk}TEMP
>
> sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not
> fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you
> want to continue to accept such senders, use
>
> FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')
>
> [...]
>
> In man fetchmail you find:
>
> [...]
>
> RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES
>The protocols fetchmail uses to talk to mailservers are next to bulletproof.
> In normal operation forwarding
>to port 25, no message is ever deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the
> host until the SMTP listener on
>the client side has acknowledged to fetchmail that the message has been
> either accepted for delivery or
>rejected due to a spam block.
>
> [...]
>
> To avoid fetchnmail from keeping this spam in your ISP's email account
> add this feature to your sendmail.mc and recreate it.
>
> Oliver
> --
Hi again Oliver,
I've added the first part you suggested above and double checked the readme file to
ensure my syntax was correct, but it's still leaving the message in my mailbox at the
ISP with the same NDR message.
Do I also have to add the second item you suggested? It seems unrelated to me...
Of course, maybe it's not sendmail itself, but rather mimedefang doing this? I may
have to post a message on the mimedefang list instead.
Pete
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Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:04:46 -0500 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah really?! You can read/write an e-mail while Sylpheed is pulling > down mesages? Cool -- not being able to b4 is the primary reason I > left it, for Mozilla. > > I liked it's ability to reply with higlighted material quoted. > That's something Mozilla/Thunderbird haven't implemented yet. > > -- Yep you can now. In fact it's downloading mail right now as I type. I also like that feature actually, it's very handy at keeping your mind on what your responding to! Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:37:52 +0100 Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file with e.g. sendmailconfig. Yep, I ran sendmailconfig telling it to use the existing files. > 2) No I only have the feature added to my sendmail.mc. There goes that idea :-) > 3) In my .fetchmailrc I have at the beginning this options: > > [...] > set bouncemail > set spambounce > set properties "" > [...] > > > Good luck > > Oliver > -- Thanks Oliver, I've set --nobounce in /etc/defaults/fetchmail but I'll check what the other two do as well. At the moment I'm sidetracked by mimedefang slaves dieing prematurely and preventing me getting mail. I've had to take it out of the loop temporarily :-( Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIMEDefang 2.38 and Perl 5.8.3 Segfault
Hi all, I'm experiencing a major drama whereby mimedefang is segfaulting after what I believe to be the latest Perl update. I've posted a query on the mimedefang list and so far it looks to be a perl issue of some sort causing the segfault. Is anyone else experiencing this and if so have you resolved it or filed a bug report? I'm not sure how to narrow it down to a particular package/module/library or whatever so I can file a bug. Any help greatly appreciated. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to find WHEN a package was installed
Hi all, I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it was installed. Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a manpage or something? Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:50:26 +1000 "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify > the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it > was installed. > > Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a manpage or something? > > Pete > And I'm sorry for not specifying I'm running Sarge. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:13:00 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the > moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do > it yourself, or use aptitude which I believe has installation logging > support. > > If the upgrade was recent, you may be able to dig out a date by > comparing /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var/lib/dpkg/status-old, and > /var/backups/dpkg.status.*. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks Colin, after the searches I did on Google etc. weren't successful, I was suspecting this sort of answer :-( Oh well, I shall see what I can see... even if I can just find any packages upgraded yesterday that'll make me happy I think. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:21:03 +1000 "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:13:00 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the > > moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do > > it yourself, or use aptitude which I believe has installation logging > > support. > > > > If the upgrade was recent, you may be able to dig out a date by > > comparing /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var/lib/dpkg/status-old, and > > /var/backups/dpkg.status.*. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thanks Colin, after the searches I did on Google etc. weren't successful, I was > suspecting this sort of answer :-( > > Oh well, I shall see what I can see... even if I can just find any packages upgraded > yesterday that'll make me happy I think. > > Pete > No luck I'm afraid Colin as everything is dated today, but thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one needing this feature :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:18:46 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for > > the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > > Oh yes, the *.list files would do that. (A bit of experimentation > suggests that the others bear the build date rather than the > installation date.) > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks to all of you for your help in this, it's at least taken Perl out of the equation. The latest attributes on any Perl file/module/library I can find is Feb 27, which is a couple of days prior to my problem, so it's not Perl... Thanks again, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:37:52 +0100
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote:
>
> > Hi again Oliver,
> >
> > I've added the first part you suggested above and double checked the readme file
> > to ensure my syntax was correct, but it's still leaving the message in my mailbox
> > at the ISP with the same NDR message.
>
> 1) Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file with e.g. sendmailconfig.
>
> > Do I also have to add the second item you suggested? It seems unrelated to me...
>
> 2) No I only have the feature added to my sendmail.mc.
>
> 3) In my .fetchmailrc I have at the beginning this options:
>
> [...]
> set bouncemail
> set spambounce
> set properties ""
> [...]
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Oliver
> --
Hi again Oliver,
Just a further note on this one...
The C{ResOK}TEMP line only works for tempfail (451) domain resolution, not permanent
ones. To allow permanent failed domain resolution to come through, the setting is this:
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
I still couldn't get that message that was failing, and another one arrived as well,
so I looked further using your tip (C{ResOK}TEMP) in my search, and got directed to
the sendmail cf README at sendmail.org, and just above what you suggested is the line
above for permanent errors.
After adding this, both messages were delivered and consequently directed to my
spamdrop by mimedefang.
It seems we both missed the answer in the README file :-)
Thanks again for your help,
Pete
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Re: what are all the bytes streaming into my modem all about?
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 05:22:09 +0800 Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's several minutes thru my modem connection, and the icewm ppp > traffic meter is still quite high even though my wwwoffle fetch is > over, noffle is over, exim, fetchmail are over, and mozilla is quiet. > > How frustrating not to know what all they bytes streaming into my > computer are all about, or if I can hang up the phone yet before > another coin drops, or might I truncate some file that I am waiting on > and have forgotten. > > Is netstat -a the ultimate tool in this case? > > If so, is there a script that will take lines like > tcp 0 1 TC210-203-44-79.3:33519 159.226.154.64:www LAST_ACK > and I suppose delve into /proc/ to dreg up some human readable > synopsis of what that connection is all about. > > Yes, any tool to give all the details in a verbose untruncated human > format about what the heck each connection, or just the hottest > connection is all about? > You'd probably be better off using tcpdump from my experience. man tcpdump will tell you all you need to know. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Query
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:20:32 +0100
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote:
>
> > After adding this, both messages were delivered and consequently directed to my
> > spamdrop by mimedefang.
>
> What exactly did you add to your sendmail.mc?
>
> Oliver
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Hi Oliver, sorry I've been down the coast on holidays for a few days and have finally
finishing sorting through all the emails...
Anyway, this is the line I added:
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
I also added the lines as you suggested:
LOCAL_CONFIG
C{ResOK}TEMP
After having all three of these lines present, everything gets pulled down by
fetchmail and then the mimedefang filter run be sendmail gets rid of the spam quite
successfully without hogging my ISP mailbox space.
Thanks again,
Pete
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Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:02:32 -0800 Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:54:39PM +1100, Mathew Meins wrote: > > The Bin Laden one appears to ridicule him, from what I can see at the URL you > > posted. I really don't know what you're complaining about. > > The Saddam one has a big nose and looks like a caricature. > What feature of the Bin Laden one is distored, exagerated, or funny? > > Of course I didn't buy it. And of course the FBI shouldn't prosecute > them. And of course they have the right to do it. > > However, they should *not* do it, and the world must be informed of > their tendancies. Knowledge is power. > > Never again will the world not know how this company thinks. > Not the most earth-shattering thing, but it is A True Thing. > > Right always wins in the end. > All that I can see that you've done is promote the product by spreading the website and encouraging people to look at it... In fact, I think you'll find the company's laughing because of this sudden increase in interest of their website. And, as a result of that, if some of the people who look at it aren't offended, they may find increased productivity by way of the increased activity because some of these people may find something they want to purchase... Just my 2 cents worth... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:53:03 -0800 Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:43:15PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > In fact, I think you'll find the company's laughing because of this sudden > > increase in interest of their website. > > Hey, I'm from the South: there are a lot of people who like the > Confederate Flag, tattoos of Swatiskas, burning crosses, and all that > shit. It makes a lot of money and a lot of people think like that. > > I know all about where your head is at. > I'm from further South, try the land down under :-) I wasn't saying I would buy one, far from it, I just thought the whole topic was a little over stated is all, but I do appreciate your concern. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BIND 9 with DHCP-DNS and PPPD Demand Dial
Hi there, I'm currently running Debian Woody 3.0 r1 on my home Internet gateway box, and I've just removed DNSMasq and put BIND 9 in place instead. This was working fine, DNS lookups are happy, the other PC's can surf the net and all that with correct name resolution and local name resolution is authoritative and doesn't cause the modem to dial to do a DNS lookup to my ISP's DNS servers. However, I installed the dhcp-dns package and made a modification that I found somewhere on the net to work with BIND 9. The fix was replacing a variable in the script for BIND 8 with rndc reload or something to that effect. Now, after doing this, it dials of its own accord with no other PC's turned on whatsoever, and a tcpdump shows the address 10.64.64.64 (ppp0 interface IP address before being assigned one by my ISP) performing a DNS lookup to the ISP's DNS servers. Any ideas why this may be? I'm probably doing something stupid, but I'm not sure what's going on and hopefully someone out there has experienced this previously. Oh, and I have pppd active filters in place to restrict what causes it to dial and the only things that will are ports 25, 53, 80, 110, and 8080. And, if I remove port 53 from the active filters, then it never dials because the client PC's have to perform DNS lookups before they send any other traffic such as http or pop3 requests etc... Any ideas? Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND 9 with DHCP-DNS and PPPD Demand Dial
I didn't get any responses to my original query with this, so I did some more poking around of my own. As it turns out, I should have been using dhcp3 instead of just dhcp as it has DDNS capability built in. I have removed dhcp and dhcp-dns, installed dhcp3, and am using the builtin DDNS capabilities of Bind 9 and dhcp3. I no longer have erroneous dial-ups. Just thought I'd post this in case any else experiences a similar situation. Pete - Original Message - From: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:30 PM Subject: BIND 9 with DHCP-DNS and PPPD Demand Dial > Hi there, > > I'm currently running Debian Woody 3.0 r1 on my home Internet gateway box, > and I've just removed DNSMasq and put BIND 9 in place instead. > > This was working fine, DNS lookups are happy, the other PC's can surf the > net and all that with correct name resolution and local name resolution is > authoritative and doesn't cause the modem to dial to do a DNS lookup to my > ISP's DNS servers. > > However, I installed the dhcp-dns package and made a modification that I > found somewhere on the net to work with BIND 9. The fix was replacing a > variable in the script for BIND 8 with rndc reload or something to that > effect. > > Now, after doing this, it dials of its own accord with no other PC's turned > on whatsoever, and a tcpdump shows the address 10.64.64.64 (ppp0 interface > IP address before being assigned one by my ISP) performing a DNS lookup to > the ISP's DNS servers. > > Any ideas why this may be? I'm probably doing something stupid, but I'm not > sure what's going on and hopefully someone out there has experienced this > previously. > > Oh, and I have pppd active filters in place to restrict what causes it to > dial and the only things that will are ports 25, 53, 80, 110, and 8080. > > And, if I remove port 53 from the active filters, then it never dials > because the client PC's have to perform DNS lookups before they send any > other traffic such as http or pop3 requests etc... > > Any ideas? > > Pete > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting
Hi all, I've just set up my mail server of sorts here which is running Debian Sarge with Exim4, Fetchmail, Procmail, and QPopper. All my packages are up to date as of today. I'm trying to set it up so I can send internal mail without going via my ISP and external mail with address rewriting going via my ISP. The internal domain is "starpoint.local" and the ISP domain is "bigpond.com". I've tried a couple of things I found via a Google search but neither seem to be working. I think this is due to the fact that the new version of Exim4 has a directory structure containing all the settings under /etc/exim4/conf.d/ whereas the examples I found via Google are for the older format of just /etc/exim4/exim4.conf or whatever it used to be. I've run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and set it up as follows: 1 - Mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail 2 - System mail name: starpoint.local 3 - IP Addresses to listen on: 127.0.0.1:"my LAN IP" (this is the IP address, not the text of course) 4 - Other destinations for which mail is accepted: blank 5 - Domains to relay mail for: blank 6 - Machines to relay mail for: 127.0.0.1:"my LAN network/subnet" 7 - Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost): mail.bigpond.com 8 - Keep number of DNS queries minimual: No This configuration seems to work fine as far as I receive mail from my ISP from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I can send mail through the box with no problems. However, the problem is that when I set up my mail client which happens to be Outlook Express (don't laugh, there's a reason!), if I send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then it appears to still come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't use the built in /etc/email-addresses because when I do this, it rewrites all mail and gets sent via my ISP rather than just going from mailbox to mailbox locally. Can anyone suggest what it is that I'm missing in my configuration and where to put it? I've tried the Exim specification and gotten completely confused as well as posting to the Exim mailing list, from which I received no replies whatsoever. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting
Hi again all, Sorry if I'm being impatient, but this is frustrating me no end. The original post is below, and even if someone can just point me to some easier reading info than the Exim specification then that would be most welcome. Thanks, Pete - Original Message - From: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting > Hi all, > > I've just set up my mail server of sorts here which is running Debian Sarge > with Exim4, Fetchmail, Procmail, and QPopper. All my packages are up to date > as of today. > > I'm trying to set it up so I can send internal mail without going via my ISP > and external mail with address rewriting going via my ISP. > > The internal domain is "starpoint.local" and the ISP domain is > "bigpond.com". > > I've tried a couple of things I found via a Google search but neither seem > to be working. I think this is due to the fact that the new version of Exim4 > has a directory structure containing all the settings under > /etc/exim4/conf.d/ whereas the examples I found via Google are for the > older format of just /etc/exim4/exim4.conf or whatever it used to be. > > I've run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and set it up as follows: > > 1 - Mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail > 2 - System mail name: starpoint.local > 3 - IP Addresses to listen on: 127.0.0.1:"my LAN IP" (this is the IP > address, not the text of course) > 4 - Other destinations for which mail is accepted: blank > 5 - Domains to relay mail for: blank > 6 - Machines to relay mail for: 127.0.0.1:"my LAN network/subnet" > 7 - Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost): > mail.bigpond.com > 8 - Keep number of DNS queries minimual: No > > This configuration seems to work fine as far as I receive mail from my ISP > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I can send mail through the > box with no problems. > > However, the problem is that when I set up my mail client which happens to > be Outlook Express (don't laugh, there's a reason!), if I send mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then it appears to still come from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I can't use the built in /etc/email-addresses because when I do this, it > rewrites all mail and gets sent via my ISP rather than just going from > mailbox to mailbox locally. > > Can anyone suggest what it is that I'm missing in my configuration and where > to put it? I've tried the Exim specification and gotten completely confused > as well as posting to the Exim mailing list, from which I received no > replies whatsoever. > > Thanks, > > Pete > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian
- Original Message - From: "Kianusch Sayah Karadji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:50 PM Subject: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian > Hi! > > After some days working on an ML370/DL380 I've written a script to > automaticly download hpasm, cmastor and cpqacuxe RPMs (the latest RedHat > 2.1 versions) and convert those RPMs to Debian packages for easy > installation. No - It's not a simple call to alien... :) > > hpasm/cmastor are for Health Monitoring. > > cpqacuxe is for configuring Compaq Raid-Arrays. > > Be aware that those Packages only work for 2.4.x kernel's they do not work > on 2.6.x based systems - as the HP-Modules won't compile on 2.6.x kernels. > > You can download the script from > >http://www.sk-tech.net/support/HPrpm2deb.sh.html > > You'll find some small description on the top of the script. > > Regards > Kianusch > Thanks Kianusch, I was on a HP SAN course last week and was asking about support for Debian as opposed to Red Hat, and the answer was basically that it takes a long time to test Open Source operating systems and therefore the official support for any other distribution than Red Hat may happen at some stage, but not in the near future. It's good to know there's a way of installing it successfully on them as I was considering testing Debian at work on an ML350 G3 which has a SmartArray 532 and will require the software you have listed above. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Sarge Logcheck Query
Hi all,
I'm using logcheck to get notifications on my Debian Sarge box, but I would
really like to get rid of a few extra messages that can be ignored. The
entries I want to ignore are:
Feb 16 20:49:38 jake in.qpopper[2843]: connect from 10.200.50.152
Feb 16 20:49:38 jake in.qpopper[2843]: (v4.0.5) Unable to get canonical name
of client 10.200.50.152: Unknown host (1) [pop_init.c:1087]
Feb 16 20:49:39 jake in.qpopper[2843]: (v4.0.5) POP login by user "user" at
(10.200.50.152) 10.200.50.152 [pop_log.c:244]
Feb 16 20:49:39 jake in.qpopper[2843]: Stats: user 0 0 0 0 10.200.50.152
10.200.50.152 [pop_updt.c:296]
I've read through the man pages and had a look at the other files in the
ignore.d.server directory (I'm using server level) and have come up with the
following entries, but they don't seem to work. I've added these lines into
a file called "qpopper" in the /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server directory.
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} jake in.qpopper\[[0-9]+\]: connect from$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} jake in.qpopper\[[0-9]+\]: (v.4.0.5) Unable to get
canonical name of client$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} jake in.qpopper\[[0-9]+\]: (v.4.0.5) POP login by user$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} jake in.qpopper\[[0-9]+\]: Stats:$
I realise I'm probably getting the syntax or something wrong, but I have no
idea what language this is or exactly what these commands do.
Can anyone shed some light on this or direct me to a language reference or
something?
Thanks,
Pete
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Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query
- Original Message - From: "Brian Brazil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:19 PM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:02:18PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > I'm using logcheck to get notifications on my Debian Sarge box, but I would > > really like to get rid of a few extra messages that can be ignored. The > > entries I want to ignore are: > > > > The $ at the end is your problem. This matches the end of the string. > > Quote the (). Also the '.'s should be quoted but it isn't really as > important. (v.4.0.5) -> \(v4.0.5\) or \(v4\.0\.5\) There was an extra > dot in there. > > Ditto for these > > Also you might want to get rid of everything before 'in.qpopper' - > unless you are dealing with multiple systems. > > Don't think theres any more problems but I could have missed something. > > > Extended regular expressions. 'man grep' for more information. > > Brian > Thanks a heap Brian!! You were spot on the money there and didn't miss a thing :-) In fact logcheck didn't even send an email a minute ago when I check, which is how I want except for reboots and unexpected events. For my own curiosity, I'll have a look at the grep man pages and see if I can't understand what's going on a bit better for myself. Thanks again for your quick help. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian
- Original Message - From: "Nate Duehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian > On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:17 AM, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > I was on a HP SAN course last week and was asking about support for > > Debian > > as opposed to Red Hat, and the answer was basically that it takes a > > long > > time to test Open Source operating systems and therefore the official > > support for any other distribution than Red Hat may happen at some > > stage, > > but not in the near future. > > Oh that's retarded. > > HP themselves *USE* Debian internally for a number of things, as it was > announced that it was a company standard some time ago. > > The giant left hand doesn't know what the giant right hand is doing... > > If one frustrated user can make a "usable" Debian package for those > systems in an evening or two, HP could certainly do a "professional" > quality one in a week and test it in along with the testing of the RH > RPM's. > > Their advanced Linux development group could whip up a proper .deb in > their sleep, I'm sure. > > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I know what you mean. I also recall seeing on the Debian news site something about a Debian host being made available by HP for public use for testing of software etc. I raised this with my instructor, and he didn't know anything about it, although to give him some credit, he seems to have a fairly high interest in Linux but he also comes from the Compaq side of things pre-merger. Mind you, this was a very specific course aimed at entry-level SAN's (MSA1000), but there was no mention of support for anything but Red Hat in the higher spec SAN's either, and I still have yet to see a Debian Woody or any other distribution available on either the old HP NetServer Navigator CD's or the new SmartStart CD's as an O/S option. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting
- Original Message -
From: "Alexander Verbovetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting
> I did the following:
>
> 1. Created normal /etc/email-addresses
>
> 2. Commented out the relevant part of rewrite/31_exim4-config_rewriting :
>
> ## This rewriting rule is particularily useful for dialup users who
> ## don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
> ## It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
> #[EMAIL PROTECTED]
${lookup{${local_part}}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> # {$value}fail} Ffrs
>
> 3. Put the following to transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp :
> --
> # This transport is used for delivering messages over SMTP connections.
> remote_smtp:
> debug_print = "T: remote_smtp for [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> driver = smtp
> headers_rewrite = [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
> ${lookup{${local_part}}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}{$value}fail}
> return_path = ${if match{$return_path}{\N^([EMAIL PROTECTED])@renard$\N}\
> {${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}{$value}fail}}fail}
> --
>
> Rationale:
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/FAQ_8.html#TOC260
> (Answer 0803)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
Hi Alex,
Yes that helped!
I can now send mail from my local account and have it rewritten to the
correct ISP suffix.
However, if I send from a local account to another local account it is
delivered internally, but the sender address is still rewritten instead of
being left alone.
I have seen the FAQ you referred to and tried that, but wasn't quite sure
exactly what to do with it, so obviously I was doing something wrong.
>From what I've found, what I need to do is also have a separate internal
smtp transport that skips the rewriting process, but I don't know how to do
this.
Any further ideas?
Thanks for your help though, at least I can send mail correctly now!
Pete
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Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query
- Original Message - From: "Brian Brazil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:47 AM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query > Just a thought - if you don't get any messages how do you know that your > machine hasn't been compromised and logcheck disabled? Maybe make use of > syslogd's MARK. (It's ignored in one of the default files). > Hi again Brian, I get your point there and if my Debian box was hosting an iptables firewall (I used to but don't need to now) then I would certainly look into this, however I am now sufficiently protected behind my ADSL router's built in NAT firewall, and I'm happy to leave it at that for the time being. If I ever get back to using iptables here at home, then I will certainly want to know that my system hasn't been compromised. > > Something I thew together quickly after I first set up logcheck was a > Perl script to let me use perl regular expressions which are a lot more > powerful. Also instead of [0-9] you can use \d. This was my main reason for > writing it as I had at least 50 perl specific regex features without realising > that they wouldn't work. Oh the pain... > http://netsoc.tcd.ie/~bbrazil/perlgrep > This is specific to logcheck. Only tested with Woody. > > Brian > Where there's scripts, there's always pain, at least from my limited exposure to them anyway... I'll have a look at your script though, although I more than likely won't understand most of it :-) Thanks again for your help! Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim
Hi all, Does anyone know if there are plans to produce a MIMEDefang package with dependencies on Exim rather than sendmail? It seems a little odd that Debian uses Exim by default, but the MIMEDefang package provided with Sarge depends on sendmail... Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim
- Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:40:48PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are plans to produce a MIMEDefang package with > > dependencies on Exim rather than sendmail? > > > > It seems a little odd that Debian uses Exim by default, but the MIMEDefang > > package provided with Sarge depends on sendmail... > > File a bug report? The maintainer probably doesn't read this list, and > he's best placed to know the answer to your question. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Errr, good point! Dunno why I didn't think of that first... maybe I'm just an idiot :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim
- Original Message - From: "Al Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim > Here's a better idea. Ask him why. Probably he doesn't consider it to > be as bug. Maybe "upstream" requires sendmail, and doesn't work with > exim. Ask him why. Probably he doesn't consider it to be a bug. > Maybe he never thought of it. > > Actually, it doesn't seem odd to me at all. Debian has lots of > packages, and often provides several alternatives for a job. There are > many applications that rely on a particular set of other applications. > > Please don't file a bug report when something is working as advertised. > Point taken Al. I haven't filed a bug report yet anyway as I was wondering how I should do that when it's not a bug as such, unless of course these kinds of things can be referred to as bugs. I would classify it as a query personally, but given that my experience with filing bug reports is absolutely none, then I thought maybe I was wrong. Anyways, I shall persue the line of inquiry and see what the response is. If there's interest in the answer, I'll happily post it here for all to see if the package maintainer is happy for me to do that. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Verbovetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting Dear Peter, Unfortunately, I don't have further ideas, this doesn't happen for me. Maybe you have an old email-addresses file in rewrite/31_exim4-config_rewriting ? Generally, the evil rewritting lives in the rewrite directory and takes addresses from the email-addresses file, so it should not be difficult to catch it. But really I can't help. Good luck, Alex - Not a problem Alex, thanks for your help anyway. At least I can safely send mail to the Internet at large now! I can't find any other existing email-addresses unfortunately and I would expect it may even have something to do with Outlook Express, which is an unfortunate but necessary evil here. I'll keep looking for an answer, there'll be one out there somewhere :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:33 AM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim > > There's a wishlist category; this is probably the category you would > want. > > -- > monique > Thanks Monique, Now I know what to classify it as. I'm leaving it alone now though as I have had a response from another source that explains why it is dependant upon sendmail, so it's time for my to play with sendmail. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim
- Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim > We have the mail-transport-agent virtual package so that packages don't > have to depend on individual MTAs, and in general packages depend on > this instead (with some real alternative). Of course, if mimedefang is > actually a sendmail-specific addon, then this may not apply. At any > rate, the maintainer is the right person to ask, one way or the other. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Colin, As you've probably seen in an earlier post, mimedefang is dependant on sendmail specifically, so therefore not available with exim as the MTA. Apparently for it to be made available with exim, it would actually need to be ported across rather than just recompiled from source. I'm not sure if that's the correct way of putting it, but hopefully you get the idea. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Mail Server
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a home mail server here (have had previous posts re: Exim) and I've discovered I now need to concentrate on sendmail due to wanting to utilise the benefits of mimedefang. Anyway, what I really need is a pointer in the direction of some documentation or advice on whether or not to use mailboxes under home folders or just to let the messages go to /var/mail/username. My goal is to have mail delivered to my server via fetchmail, then have procmail deliver to each user's mailbox, and to have outgoing mail sent via sendmail to my ISP's smarthost and the headers etc. rewritten to their correct domain provided by my ISP. Also, I want local delivery to occur without going via my ISP's mail server. I won't actually be reading any mail on the mail server, instead will be using clients to retrieve mail from the server by POP3. I plan to use qpopper for this. All the documentation I can find so far points towards using home directory based mailboxes, but this seems to be for mail read on that particular machine, which in this case will be my mail server. I hope I've made sense with what I want to do, but can anyone either point me to some clear documentation or give me some advice? I'm sure I'm not the only one out there doing this. Oh, and yes I've attempted to find as much info as I could before posting this. I've confused myself with manpages, FAQ's, mailing list archives, Google searches, etc. More than likely I've just been searching for the wrong thing... Any help greatly appreciated, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:23:22PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to set up a home mail server here (have had previous posts re: > > Exim) and I've discovered I now need to concentrate on sendmail due to > > wanting to utilise the benefits of mimedefang. > > man procmail, man procmailrc, man procmailex > > mail is delivered to your machine by fetchmail, filtered through the > procmail recipes (very simple to create) which will make local copies, > redirect them to whereever you want (exim), etc. Your choice. > HTH > AR > Thanks Antonio, I have actually been through those man pages, and they did enlighten me to a few things I didn't know before. Then again, that's not hard as I don't know much about Linux mail servers yet :-) I'm more after whether I should be going down the path of individual mbox's for each user or just leaving it to go into /var/mail/username. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:23:22PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to set up a home mail server here (have had previous posts re: > > Exim) and I've discovered I now need to concentrate on sendmail due to > > wanting to utilise the benefits of mimedefang. > > man procmail, man procmailrc, man procmailex > > mail is delivered to your machine by fetchmail, filtered through the > procmail recipes (very simple to create) which will make local copies, > redirect them to whereever you want (exim), etc. Your choice. > HTH > AR > > Sorry, forgot to say I haven't look at procmailex yet, but I have definitely looked through the other two. I shall have a look at procmailex as well. Thanks, something I missed already :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 3:23 AM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > On 2004-02-19, Peter A. Cole penned: > > > > Anyway, what I really need is a pointer in the direction of some > > documentation or advice on whether or not to use mailboxes under home > > folders or just to let the messages go to /var/mail/username. > > > > I have mail delivered to /var/mail/monique and then have a symbolic link > called "inbox" in my home directory. > > -- > monique > > Thanks Monique, I may end up doing something similar if I ever want to read mail on the server, but for now I guess letting it go to /var/mail/username is the best option for me. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:22 AM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Let them go to /var/mail. If the users want it to go elsewhere, > there's procmail. Thanks for that Paul, I sorta figured that, but wanted it confirmed. > Every MTA does local delivery on it's own...there's no reason for > local mail to interact with the network... Yes they do, but I don't think I explained myself properly. By local delivery I mean one client (Outlook Express) sending an email to another local user getting delivered as if it came from the starpoint.local (internal) domain, rather than having it rewritten with bigpond.com (ISP) domain. I still haven't figured this bit out yet. > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' :http://ursine.ca/ > `. `'` proud Debian admin and user > `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
> The points I can think of: > > 1. The mail storage type the pop3 or imap server you are going to use to >give your users access to their mail requires. (I use courier-imap >which only works with maildirs so there wasn't much choice in that >case). I'm going to be using qpopper for this, which I believe will do /var/mail/username by default, and I think you can tell it to use maildirs if you need to. > 2. You will need to check the pop3 protocol to see how transactions are >made to see if this can happen and if so look at the mail server >documentation to see what is actually done but potentially mboxes can >be download in one batch (if I remember pop3 correctly it can't be >done though and you do need to ask for each mail at a time), while >with Maildirs you need to download one file at a time. On the other >hand, relevant mainly with unstable connections, some clients can be >set up to erase each mail after download instead of deleting all >mails when the download is finished which saves double downloads if >the connection dies in the middle of the transaction. >With nfs mounts for the /var/mail directory there probably would be >an advantage to single files. > With Outlook Express as the client, it downloads each individual message separately, but that's fine for me as the mail server is here on my LAN, so interruptions to the process will be minimal. Thanks Micha, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
* Peter A. Cole ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040219 03:24]: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a home mail server here (have had previous posts re: > Exim) and I've discovered I now need to concentrate on sendmail due to > wanting to utilise the benefits of mimedefang. I'm not sure about all of the features of mimedefang, but are you aware of exiscan-acl? It's included in the exim4-daemon-heavy package and can do MIME-based checking (among other things, e.g. virus/spam scanning) at SMTP time. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.sprintpcs-sucks.org/ Hi Vineet, No I didn't realise that at all! I was only aware of spamassassin and from looking around with this found out about mimedefang, which will also use clamav for virus checking. Does exiscan-acl also incorporate these two items or does it handle them differently? I might have a look around for exiscan-acl info and see how it works etc. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message - From: "Vineet Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server >Yes, you should be able to find information on the web. Look for a >document called exiscan-acl-spec.txt . > >I'm using exiscan-acl with clamav; it's very easy to set up. My mail >server is a stable woody system with backports for these packages. >exiscan-acl supports other virus scanners as well (I don't remember the >full list; see the spec doc I reference above). Spam checking is done >by spamassassin; I don't think any other spam checking tool is supported >by default. > >good times, >Vineet Thanks again Vineet, I'll have a look and see what I can find. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home Mail Server
- Original Message -
From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Home Mail Server
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:51:41AM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: Home Mail Server
>
>
> I've not followed this thread too closely.
>
> Are you using exim4? I'm not sure if this works with exim3 or not.
Hi David, no sorry, I'm now using sendmail. I was initially using exim, but
moved to sendmail because of mimedefang's dependency on it. I wasn't aware
of exiscan-acl at the time.
> Are you letting exim rewrite the username? If not, you should probably
> do that. Then have the mail client send the email with the From: header
> with the local username.
This is where I had problems with exim, but now I have sendmail running like
a charm, rewriting external addresses and leaving internal ones alone.
> At first I had my rewrite rule in the Rewrite section of the
> exim{,4}.conf file. It was doing what I think yours is doing, rewriting
> the From: for ALL mails.
>
> I then commented this line out and added two lines under "remote_smtp":
>
> headers_rewrite = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] f
> return_path = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I'm not sure if the "return_path" is necessary or not, but it doesn't
> seem to hurt at least, and _could_ be needed anyway.
>
> Note that I'm the only user, but you should be able to use a lookup rule
> in the rules for multiuser systems.
>
> Now, the rewrite happens only if you send mail out to the net.
>
> One further note. This is for smart_host usage, and not for direct mail
> hosting. But I'm sure that a similar rule could be implemented for
> this, too.
>
I'm using the smart host configuration and fetchmail to get the messages
from my ISP.
Thanks for your reply anyway David, I'll archive it for future reference if
I end up using exim with exiscan-acl or anything like that.
Pete
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Debian Sarge Modconf and update-modules Clarification Needed
Hi all, Hopefully just a quick one... If I run modconf, then remove all the modules I don't need (like every single IDE driver known to the kernel), then I run update-modules, is this supposed to reload all the modules I just removed at the next reboot? If my guess at the working of this is right, I run modconf, add/remove whatever modules I need, then don't run update-modules. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge Modconf and update-modules Clarification Needed
- Original Message - From: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:02 PM Subject: Debian Sarge Modconf and update-modules Clarification Needed > Hi all, > > Hopefully just a quick one... > > If I run modconf, then remove all the modules I don't need (like every > single IDE driver known to the kernel), then I run update-modules, is this > supposed to reload all the modules I just removed at the next reboot? > > If my guess at the working of this is right, I run modconf, add/remove > whatever modules I need, then don't run update-modules. > > Thanks, > > Pete Just an additional note, I just ran modconf, removed everything I don't need, and on rebooting it loads them up again. I had a quick look through man modconf, modprobe.conf, update-modules etc. but it doesn't seem to be clear how I can ensure these modules don't get loaded on bootup. I only have three entries in /etc/modules for my network card, sound card, and apm. This may all be wrong though as I'm only used to modules under Woody, which was all controlled by /etc/modules if I remember correctly. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bit of a Strange IMAP/POP3/Procmail Question
Hi all, I've got a bit of a strange question in relation to IMAP, POP3, and Procmail. My mail server here at home currently running Debian Sarge uses a combination of fetchmail, sendmail, and procmail to deliver email to my local accounts. I have done nothing with procmail, so everything gets delivered to /var/mail/username. Currently, I'm using qpopper to allow my clients to retrieve mail via pop3 and dovecot-imap to allow me to access mail via horde2/imp remotely. I tried to move to dovecot-pop3 tonight instead of qpopper, but dovecot has mysteriously disappeared from Sarge... Anyway, what I really want to achieve is to have two of the mail accounts delivered to /var/mail/username as they are now, and have the other four accounts delivered to $HOME/mail or whatever the correct maildir usage would be. I've done google searches etc., but I think I'm searching for the wrong information as I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm hoping to end up having the two accounts in /var/mail accessible via POP3 for the two Windows clients here at home, and then the other four accounts accessible via IMAP so I can read them whereever I am, via horde2/imp, via thunderbird, or whatever. If anyone can just show me where to look for some procmail recipes or appropriate pop3/imap servers to use that would be great. Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:29:15 -0700 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable > or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production > server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer > software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to > Gnome 1.x just because I want a "stable" debian system, where gentoo > seems to run fine with the latest. > -- Well, I'm currently running four Debian boxes at home. Two of these are "desktops", although one is actually a Dell laptop with a dead battery, so you might as well call it a desktop :-) I'm also running a mail server, which also servers DHCP, DNS, NTP, CUPS, and does backups as well. There is also a web server which doubles up as a PPTP VPN server. Basically, to get all the functionality I wanted from these boxes, I had to choose Debian Sarge. The version of ppp provided with stable does not include ms-chapv2 or mppe support. Stable does not include mimedefang. Stable does not include xfree86 4.3.x. These are all features that required me to move from stable to testing at home, and I have actually found it to be pretty stable. The only issuse I've had so far have either been hardware related (all my hardware is old and well past the used by date) or has been fixed in an update in the next day or two. However, in a production environment for corporate purposes, I would strongly suggest stable due to the security issues. I work for an IT outsourcing company at the moment but, unfortunately, everything except our internal proxy server is Windoze based. This proxy box is running *shudder* Red Hat 9, due to a serious lack of Linux knowledge in the organisation. Mind you, I'm not all that brilliant at it myself yet :-) I'm hoping in the near future to change a few things and implement at least one other Linux box, preferably Debian based. However, I'm holding off pushing for anything until Sarge gets released as the new stable distribution due to us requiring features (like mimedefang) that aren't available in Woody. I realise that exim works with exiscan-acl (I think that's right!), but I've had much more success with sendmail as opposed to exim, but that's more a personal preference rather than a functionality issue. To my knowledge, exim works well when configured correctly. Anyway, that's my opinion, whether it helps you or not is a different story... Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarge Jigdo Image
Hi all, I'm probably doing something stupid here, but I can't seem to get the current official Sarge ISO image from Jigdo to work. I jigdo'd the CD last night and booted my Dell notebook off it today, but it tells me I don't have a valid Debian CD. When jigdo finished, it told me the image should be valid. I used "cdrecord -v dev=0,6,0 sarge-i386-1.iso" to burn the CD. After this failed, I burned another with "cdrecord -v -dao dev=0,6,0 sarge-i386-1.iso" as I thought maybe it failed due to being track at once instead of disk at once. Can anyone enlighten me as to where I've gone wrong? Thanks, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Jigdo Image
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:13:11 -0500 hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Hugo, > But as final step he checks the checksums, did he do Yes, jigdo said the checksums were fine. > > How did this fail? What does cdrecord say? > The cdrecord process didn't actually fail, it completed successfully. It's only the install process after booting from the CD which fails, but I have since found out why... see below... > > > I use sarge-i386-1.iso from jigdo-lite all the time and if he says the > checksums match I have no trouble using your first cdrecord command. > > It boots fine and also installs fine, provided you just use the defaults. > > H I've used the jigdo download for a few sarge CD's now, and up until this time never had a problem I did however resolve the problem... it's not the CD, it's the Sarge installer. Basically, it does not like the devices on my Dell laptop. If I manually enter the second console and change where the CD mounts, everything starts working. This seems to be indirectly caused by the ide-scsi module. I've now got Sarge installed on my notebook using an older jigdo image I had, and it's now working fine after updating with apt-get. Thanks for your response Hugo, I got it just as I was about to reply to my original post to say I had found the problem :-) Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a likely icedove/imapd bug
Hello, today I made a mistake. I thought it's quite time to move old mails from my inbox to an archive folder. I created the folder, selected the mails, right-click, move to folder. It took some time (~2000 emails, ~300Megs). Then opened the new folder, and to my surprise, every email was duplicated! The folder was ~600Megs. I tried to reproduce the behaviour. Backed up my inbox (with quite fewer messages now, less than 100), made two folders, copied the messages to one, moved to the other. It was ok. Then, copied the archive folder over the inbox (now ~4000 emails, ~600Megs), then copied and moved the messages to two test folders. The copy went fine, the move was aborted: the imap server told that the dest folder grew too large. It was 1.8Gigs then. What I observed was that icedove wrote to the status bar that it is moving the messages, then opening the folder, then moving the messages ... looked like an infinite loop. If I copied/moved the messages between plain folders, the error didn't occur, so I suspect this bug manifests itself only if moving from the inbox, large amounts. I also tried the copy/move with a generated folder (4000 one-line messages), but everything went fine. The mail server is running debian lenny (upgraded this week), my workstation is running squeeze (also upgraded this week): ii uw-imapd 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 ii icedove2.0.0.19-1 All folders were in unix mailbox format. Can someone reproduce the above? How can I remove the duplicated messages, so that only one copy remains in the folder? Please CC me, I'm not on the list. Regards, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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