Postfix.

2002-03-31 Thread Corey Halpin
It seems that the latest postfix packages default to rejecting mail claiming to be from localhost. I understand that this makes sense for spam prevention. However, it does unpleasant things if you happen to use fetchmail. I lost several hours of email because I didn't notice it was doing t

Re: xterm defaults - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Corey Halpin
> Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might also consider trying the web based interface on debian.org. regardless, welcome to my small but growing killfile.

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Corey Halpin
> Of course, in this ideal world, I'd also have to be using Windows, > because all of the synching and other packages I am seeing on Debian's > servers seem to ME to be specific for Palms. The handspring visors, and quite a few other PDA devices use the PalmOS. Sync software cares what OS th

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Corey Halpin
> > stty erase > > > > On every other machine, every time I log in? .profile anyone?

Re: more spamassassin questions.

2002-03-14 Thread Corey Halpin
> Maybe a .spamassasin file in the user 'mail's homedir? Good idea, but no go. It runs spamassassin as the user "mail", but tries to read/write to the homedir of the user running spamc. :-( crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Com

Re: more spamassassin questions.

2002-03-14 Thread Corey Halpin
enabled the daemon by enabling the it in the > /etc/default/spamassassin file. The "default" setting does not include > the -x setting. > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:28:14PM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: > > when one runs spamd -x, is there a way to specify what de

more spamassassin questions.

2002-03-10 Thread Corey Halpin
when one runs spamd -x, is there a way to specify what default configuration should be used by spamd? or does it just use the "factory default" settings? thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of W

start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Corey Halpin
I'm attempting to chroot my spamd process to run from /var/lib/spamd. I have copied all the relevant files from /etc, and from /usr/sbin to /var/lib/spamd. I then edit /etc/init.d/spamassassin and add --chroot /var/lib/spamd after every start-stop-daemon invocation. when I run the modifie

Re: Kernel panic on install, Dell Poweredge 350

2002-03-05 Thread Corey Halpin
> The last message I get is: "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 01:00" that's a pretty common error if you've borked your kernel install. It means that either you don't have drivers for your hard disk built in the kernel, or that you don't have drivers for your filesystem built

Re: procmail rule for html mail

2002-03-04 Thread Corey Halpin
> I remember asking this question before. :-) > Here's the rule that I use for stripping html mail. > :0f > * ^Content-Type: text/html | lynx -dump -force_html -stdin | formail -i "Content-Type: text/plain" Now, if you also want to filter mime, that is more annoying. I use the pro

Re: procmail rule for html mail

2002-03-04 Thread Corey Halpin
I remember asking this question before. :-) Here's the rule that I use for stripping html mail. :0f * ^Content-Type: text/html | lynx -dump -force_html -stdin | formail -i "Content-Type: text/plain" This will kill the html, and then continue with your normal filters. Now, if you're

[OT] More mail filter questions

2002-02-25 Thread Corey Halpin
Ok, it's become a mission now. Before I leave .edu, I want to a) find a beer that I like, and b) have a set of procmail filters such that I don't get any ugly stupid email. I'd welcome pointers for both. :-) More to the point, I'd like to know how to set up procmail filters that: 1.

Procmail question

2002-02-24 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anybody have a procmail script to trim html out of email? such that all the email I get is only text-plain? thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison

Re: Procmail Question

2002-02-19 Thread Corey Halpin
Nevermind. I found formail -i. In case anyone's interested, here's a recipe that I find handy for debian-user: :0 * ^x-mailing-list.*debian-user | formail -i "reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org" \ | rcvstore +lists/debian/user > Does anyone know of a way in procmail

Procmail Question

2002-02-19 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anyone know of a way in procmail to to replace one header with another? (ie, replace the contents of the From header with the contents of the List-ID header?) thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Unive

Plucker in unstable.

2002-02-04 Thread Corey Halpin
After updating plucker yesterday, plucker-build started throwing errors. Here is the error I get: hobbes:~$ plucker-build -f main Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/plucker-build", line 38, in ? from PyPlucker import Parser, ConfigFiles File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packa

Re: UT

2002-01-31 Thread Corey Halpin
> > Does anyone know how to install UT such that it doesn't use software > > rendering when one has a matrox g400 card? > > You may have to compile kernel patches supplied by the manufacturer of > your video card. Also check XF86Config-4(5) for details on making sure > DRI and GL are enabled.

UT

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anyone know how to install UT such that it doesn't use software rendering when one has a matrox g400 card? Using debian unstable. I'll gladly provide more system details for solutions. :-) thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engine

Re: Quake III

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
> I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP > chipset. Matrox g400. > When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I > can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts > looping on itself. I can ssh in.

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Corey Halpin
God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. http://www.lokigames.com/ Sells linux ports of many popular games. Yes, I know that it sucks to pay for games. It sucks more to run windows, IMO. Unfortunately, it seems that Loki is going out of business by the end of January. > where can i get a li

Quake III

2002-01-24 Thread Corey Halpin
I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP chipset. Matrox g400. When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts looping on itself. I can ssh in. If I kil

Re: su woes. - resolved

2002-01-23 Thread Corey Halpin
The problem was that the newest base-password deletes the group "wheel" under some circumstances. In my case, "wheel" had the same gid as "sys" wanted. This is a problem if you have PAM configured such that only members of group wheel can become root. On the bright side, I found a securit

su woes.

2002-01-22 Thread Corey Halpin
Using sid, kernel 2.4.17, MD5 Passwords, whenever I try to su to root, I get a "permission denied" error. Not a PAM_UNIX AUTHFAIL error, but permission denied. I know that the password I give it is correct. Does anyone else get this, and/or know how to fix it? thanks, crh -- Corey R. Hal

USB UPSes

2002-01-22 Thread Corey Halpin
Hello. I'm trying to get my Tripp Lite UPS which uses USB to communicate to talk to my computer. I'm using sid, with kernel 2.4.17. I don't know what kernel modules to use. I would also like pointers to UPS software. Thank you, crh

Re: PAM questions

2001-11-26 Thread Corey Halpin
> This is going to sound like a stupid statement, I'm assuming that since > you're asking that these details are not to be found in the HowTo's. I did, and I read them, but they weren't overly clear on this point. Maybe I just need to keep reading them (which I am, my enlightenment has not ye

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Corey Halpin
Doesn't anyone use exmh besides me? Maybe I'm just strange. blah, blah, blah, I like it. crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dumb postgresql questions

2001-11-05 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1. Is there some simple way to convert a mysql database into a postgresql database? 2. what postgresql commands are equivalent to "show databases;" and "show tables;" in mysql? thanks, crh - -- Corey

GPG keyring selection

2001-10-29 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anybody know how gpg selects which of the keyring files you specify to it to attempt to write to? When I put "keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg" at the bottom of my ~/.gnupg/options fi

Problems with iomega zip 250

2001-03-21 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lately, when I mount a zip disk on my iomega zip250, I get this in syslog: Mar 21 01:33:15 hobbes kernel: hdb: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive only handles 250609664 Mar 21 01