Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:52:14AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I have had no problems with ext3 either, nor have I heard of anyone > having problems, nor is there any bugs open in e2fsprogs. Should we > just flatly recommend ext3 in the manual? Or maybe something like One issue with ext3 (unl

Re: Complied into debs please (Python/Emacs packagers take note)

2002-02-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:19:49PM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > What is the point of pre-compiling C code before packaging it into > .debs? If you can answer that, apply that answer to Python code. The C ABI is rather more stable than that for Python (or Emacs). > Taking away the precompiled as

Re: kdebaselibs-Problem

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:21:28PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Please tell the exact errors, otherwise nobody can tell what is > happening. If it's the same error I'm seeing then: (Reading database ... 79805 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kdebase-libs (from .../kdebas

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Why do it that way around instead of ownership root.news, mode 0640? > That way a program running as group news would be able to read it, > but modifications would remain restricted to root. No particular reason other than that tha

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news > > are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those > > arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What > > gi

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:10:02PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? There's also OpenH323, which should interoperate with NetMeeting. It's not packaged for Debian yet but someone is working on it. -- Mark

Re: Mail not bouncing back on errors?

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
on your local system and watching it bounce. How to fix this depends onhow you've got your local mail system configured. I always used to have Exim rewrite local sender addresses into something that was usable on the internet - there is/was a section to the end of exim.conf with an example o

Re: Anything on CD to read GIFF in Gimp?

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
but it might be on vendor-modified CDs and it is on the FTP site. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
e done by not allowing your mail server to relay mail for machines on the intranet. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
TAs like Postfix or Exim can be much simpler. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-24 Thread Mark Brown
in the middle of its job? You could have it look at the output of mailq for message IDs with '*' next to them (which means that a delivery is currently being attempted for that message). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tar

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-20 Thread Mark Brown
likely to have happened when Postfix got a timeout waiting to a response to the end of DATA, in which case Postfix logs a message saying "mail may be delivered more than once". -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~b

Re: Exim, RBL/ORBS, fetchmail and POP3

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
You can try grovelling through the headers of the mail, but that's extremely hard to do relaibly and not something that most MTA authors would consider implementing. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: postfix: local mail goes to relayhost!

2000-12-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:01:36AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > mydestinations = jojda, localhost, jojda.2y.net That should be mydestination. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFSh

Re: postfix: what's local?

2000-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
main part of your hostname if you're using that in local e-mail. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpQYKt5zVdaJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: postfix config (network unreachable?)

2000-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
sing port 25). > netscape mail agent works fine, it does not try to directly deliver > mail but uses my ISP mail server. Your ISP is apparently firewalling port 25. Configure Postfix to deliver via your ISP like Netscape does ("relayhost = whatever"). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: exim thru firewall

2000-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
e should be no particular problem with outbound mail - the output of eximconfig should just work. Could you perhaps show some logging from Exim (look in /var/log/exim/mainlog) showing what exactly is failing? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
om Leafnode, then if you have selected a PPP network connection it will be run every time you dial in. If you select a permanent network connection it will run from cron.daily. Otherwise it shouldn't run automatically unless you set up a cron job or something. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL

Re: final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
failure it's rather hard to tell. Please, if you think you have found a fault in libmm could you file a bug against the package (see bugs.debian.org for details) with instructions for reproducing the bug. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http:

Re: Q: GCC: bash: a.out: command not found?

2000-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:17:02PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > GCC: bash: a.out: command not found > I got a feeling this is a path isue. But to what? I tried the gcc readme, > the FAQ online and on disk. Nothing. Try ./a.out. By default the current directory is not on your path.

Re: Problems sending e-mail

2000-11-12 Thread Mark Brown
ress of the connecting system rather than the headers or the names specified in SMTP (although it is common to check that the sender domain actually exists). Anything else is too simple to forge. Where relaying from variable IP addresses is used some kind of authentication (such as POP before SM

Re: OT: erroneous spam bounces (was [FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@miraculix.lanworks.de: ])

2000-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
abled but hosed DNS (ix.netcom.com has MX records). I rather suspect that nobody can e-mail this user and that e-mail to postmaster will work. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.

Re: Whiteboard Software

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
st basically impossible to make the connection without the active assistance of the NAT box). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpzNHwjG3hpN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
you might find that configuring fetchmail and then starting it in daemon mode from your ip-up scripts before the MTA starts trying to deliver outbound mail would do the trick. You may find putting in a sleep before firing the queue helps. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
questions but don't provide nearly enough information to debug a problem. You can start guessing at possible causes, but there's a fair chance you'll end up picking the wrong one and/or being more confusing than just asking for the information needed to work things out. -- Mark B

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Brown
nflicts'. In that case you'd have to fall back on doing a download with no install I guess - when you download stuff it should you the site you're hitting and the version number it's fetching while the download is in progress. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying t

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or us

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Brown
ll the package with the highest version number it can find. You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use --dummy-run to do a dummy run). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Brown
utahglx1 The following NEW packages will be installed: libglide2 libglide2-dev mesag-glide2-dev mesag3-glide2 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 1784kB of archives. After unpacking 4922kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] which appears

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Brown
uld have dependancies saying that. It might be desirable to have facilities to work around buggy packages like that, but in general the current behaviour (believe the information provided by the packages) is perfectly sensible. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpin

Re: Where is calculator?

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
haven't checked, though). It is certainly avaliable in woody. There's also other programs that do the same job - try "apt-cache search calculator" for some suggestions. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis

Re: easy apt-get

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: > I have a deb file on my system how > can I install it? > Isnt it possible to install this pack. > whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? > And how must I do it? "dpkg -i " No need to do anything with apt. --

Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
the case for Debian lists. The problem with netvigator is that their software is generating bounces to the From: line in the message (which is not rerwitten) rather than the envelope sender. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.a

Re: /usr/share, why bother?

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
ions, making them more consistent with each other. That alone is a worthwhile thing. Besides, the intention is that dpkg should support this eventually so the packages are going to have to be modified at some point. It may as well be done before the changes are made in dpkg as after. -- Mark B

Re: X-Strike-Force page?...

2000-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
n't part of that move. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpP4dtObl5qe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Mark Brown
roperly > with IPsec and that I'd have to kill the NAT and proxy to make things > work. It shouldn't pose any problems - we use exactly this setup at work without ill-effects. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac

Re: machines (ii)

2000-09-30 Thread Mark Brown
load from both quite happily. With a broadband connection you might want a somewhat more powerful CPU. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpK7JKqlcxRi.

Re: /var/spool/mail on NFS

2000-09-30 Thread Mark Brown
over NFS isn't reliable. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpPTj1gNu2vb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Search for NAT or http proxy

2000-09-30 Thread Mark Brown
erade all packets with source addresses on your local network and leave the destination address unspecified then it will do the right thing. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/

Re: Postfix question

2000-09-29 Thread Mark Brown
> > selective. > > I have read the docs but nothing applies. You also need to specify the access list in the appropriate smtpd restrictions class. "check_client_access" should do what you want. See /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples/sample-smtpd.cf.gz for details. -- Mark Brow

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
here's always some obscure obstacle or error message > that i have no clue as to the meaning behind it. > is there a debianized tunnel module i can get running? We use FreeSWAN, which isn't packaged yet. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

Re: zlib1g vs zlib1g-dev (potato)

2000-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:26:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3-5) but 1:1.1.3-9 is to be > > > instal

Re: zlib1g vs zlib1g-dev (potato)

2000-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib > non-free > 1) why would zlib1g-dev and zlib1g versions not match? The version 1:1.1.3-9 was only ever uploaded to woody: | zlib (1:1.1.3-9) unstable; urgency=low | | * Fix source dependancies (closes: #68469). | |

Re: Branden confuses me with his recommendations for XF86 4.01 debs

2000-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
cause these packages are still works in progress. There will be things that aren't quite right and perhaps even things that are outright broken. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
familiar with, although some make it optional. It's partly a historical thing springing from the way mailing lists have been implemented in the past (as /etc/alias entries), partly for verification (I know my message went out - I can see it) and partly there for some kinds of processing of l

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
7;t likely achieve anything. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpy5Bx9Wisv4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
, I can't remember or be bothered to look) system which includes the recipient address in the sender information. Of course, the broken mail software is generating bounces to the From: in the message rather than the envelope sender so that won't actually help much... -- Mark Brown mail

Re: MPI and parallel processing

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
d are in Potato, along with a number of libraries for them. LAM is generally regarded as the faster of the two. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: fetchmail errors when my Netscape mails to @3rvs.com

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
er try to fix the sending system (I'm guessing it's another of your accounts) or try to convince Exim to be less picky. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Exim and IMAP

2000-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
. Try looking at the imap or courier-imap packages (or perhaps courier-imapd if the license is acceptable to you). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ p

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
l to use something like a bug tracking system. Or perhaps there's a need to share more than just the mail - you also need to share things like the configuration. There's more methods for attacking problems like this than just a shared mail account. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL

Re: apt-get error

2000-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
ckages. If there are packages that fail to configure then try asking here about how to proceed, quoting exactly what happens. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/fil

Re: Setting proper From: lines

2000-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
ur local system doesn't use an externally valid domain name. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpa35NQGKgV8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mutt: Mail-Follow-Up header incorrect

2000-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
all MTAs and only works for a subset of headers. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpmy7LNIL4Xj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
. Otherwise, it seems you want some improved system for browsing documentation. I guess something like that would need to be implemented before it could become policy. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:10:16AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Close, but not perfect. They insist on sending everything out a single > SMTP server. This requirement I really don't get: what practical difference does it make? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tryi

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
ng betas and "Free software: contribute nothing, expect nothing" -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:05:56PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > ;-) . Having used Outlook, which seems to be the example people are > > quoting of something that supports this I actually prefer the separate >

Re: Sync mail with palm

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a > palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without > using a modem connection. You might try pilot-mail. -- Mark

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:58:35PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > You'd need to find out what criteria the mail server is using to > > restrict sent mail. Generally, it should just look at the address of > > y

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:14:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Generally, you should just be able to tell your mail client to use a > > different configuration. > Hack. The mail client should be able to do th

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
t sent mail. Generally, it should just look at the address of your system, but apparently it's doing more than that (which doesn't buy them any security, but anyway). What happens if you send mail from Spruce through your own mail server. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tryin

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
quot; folders like "sent-mail" in a completely separate > account without the need for a separate account locally. As far as I'm aware all the MUAs with non-trivial support for IMAP can do this. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

Re: SendMail Problem

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
m root to a user. What Have I missed? You (probably, I don't actually use sendmail) shouldn't need to use userdb at all. Could you post exactly what you do when running sendmailconfig? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
handle them both with one instance of a program. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpaC4gr3CTuA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
It certainly supports multiple servers and folders and can conditionally set headers based upon various criteria. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpzjq

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Brown
> install recommended and optional packages too? There's no way to make apt-get install anything except dependancies automatically. You'd need to either used dselect or look at the suggestions and recommendations and install them yourself. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Keeping package management system happy

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Brown
(or perhaps use a > utility whose name escapes me right now). But again, I wonder if > that's proper. There's a reason why the /etc/init.d scripts are all conffiles :-) . -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tard

Re: recompiling gcc & g++

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Brown
("gc.h") ... Does > anybody has any experience with this ? Should I write the mantainer of > the package ? Check that you have all the source dependancies. Actually, I'd suggest just installing from source rather than bothering with the .debs. -- Mark Brown mailto:[E

Re: more on syslogd & remote logging

2000-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
ers. If you need the separate logs you'll have to either find a syslogd replacement that does what you want or post-process based on the host field in the logfile(s). If you're processing the logs you may find it easier to create a catchall log that gets everything written to it and st

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
e.com/fhs/ (it's not Debian-specific) and on Debian systems in in /usr/doc/debian-policy/fhs Any major differences should be documented in the policy manual, which is on the web at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to av

Re: mutt/muttrc problem

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
installed > Sendmail? Even if it did help it's probably a bad idea: sendmail is a complex piece of software and unless you know what you're doing or have fairly specialised requirements. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) htt

Re: sendmail error 553

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
Messenger trying to get the mail out? I'd guess it's bypassing whichever sendmail thinks it can do rewriting. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpM0GM0SODHP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Limit devel-changes to i386 related news

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Brown
ated, but things have been that way since as long as I can remember so I wouldn't hold your breath. What you can do is to use procmail to filter out the announcments you don't want. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.a

Re: DNS setup help

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Brown
ng a nameserver then you can specify name servers in /etc/resolv.conf with "nameserver n.n.n.n". -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpMRxsfGLlKt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Brown
t? That's probably easiest and safest thing to do. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpfDzkDsa9LQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lprng out of date?

2000-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
distribution when Potato froze. It's not going to get updated unless there's a spectacular security hole or similar. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/films

Re: mail forwarding

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
rk yet again... > I thought > there was an easier way of doing it Why do you need to send it off again? > do you know anything about the perl mailtools ? Not a thing. You'd be much better off asking about this stuff somewhere like comp.mail.sendmail - it's fairly

Re: mail forwarding

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
ve it in relay_domains. When the mail is being delivered to the primary host you have to arrange some for the secondary to get access to the mail, with IMAP being a common mechanism. If most mail is being delivered to the secondary MX that probably indicates that there's poor connectivity to the

Re: newbie install questions

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
installer differentiates between static and dynamic connections, but it supports both. The slink installer doesn't know anything about DHCP, though you can normally get around this by getting an IP allocated in Windows and then claiming this is your static IP for the purposes of the installer. -- Mark

Re: compiling teTeX-src-1.0.7

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
on Muller wrote: > > Is there some particular reason you decided to -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpyTmDlKM2AR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
t; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mark Brown > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38 Please quote properly: delete material not needed for context and place new text after old. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avo

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
s you're on-line when you do this I wouldn't worry about it. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpfQTAxaCMAF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail troubles

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:48:37PM -0500, Chris Tessone wrote: > It seemed to me he meant that the server from which he's grabbing the > mail is locking the file (on the remote server), not sendmail under > Linux. Yeah - the POP server rather than the SMTP server. -- Mark Brown

Re: fetchmail troubles

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
o be useful. I'm a bit concerned that you say that the SMTP server keeps your mailbox locked when things fail - it shouldn't be touching the mailbox until it's got the mail sucessfuly. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tard

Re: Forwarding sent email-

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
dress. I guess this can be done with most MTAs. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp2SgMCoKa0o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
quoted text not needed for context. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpVg6hUufqYu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: emails wont send out-

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
d i cant > figure out why...anyone have any ideas. What do the MTA logs (probably in /var/spool/mail.log unless you use exim in which case /var/log/exim/mainlog) say? What particular e-mail addresses give problems (you say changing the address helps)? Are you on-line or off-line when you se

Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
ecent Debian versions). [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly? It makes them much easier to read.] -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
t it had got on the floor. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpfoJyVjufPu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
the server it fetches news from. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpujola4IGPz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
trying to set this up is so that > things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP to inject mail, bypassing this check. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) ht

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Brown
interact well when you could just as easily move that job into a separate program that everything could use. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Mark Brown
efine __unix__ 1 > #define __GNUC__ 2 > #define __linux 1 > #define __ELF__ 1 > #define unix 1 That doesn't define __STDC__ on Slink either. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS

Re: More questions about Postfix (Was Re: Postfix troubles)

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
ix > on a dialup system ? I have already closed my system to any outside > access using tcp_wrappers. Should I be concerned with any smtp-relaying > issues since Postfix is running on my system ? Postfix is pretty secure by default. You could always firewall out any incoming connections on port

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
it'd be a good idea for our That's a perfectly reasonable decision for the target audience. It's very easy for people who don't know what their doing to seriously misconfigure a mail client. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
ing given a domain part of phoenix.phoenix. Try adding that to mydestination and see where that gets you. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp4zS

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
other internet users e.g. this list, etc. ? Removing the relayhost won't help at all. By the time Postfix looks at the relayhost it has already decided to try to deliver the mail remotely. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://w

Re: postfix help

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Brown
> ISP username in your .bash_profile.) Cannonical mapping can probably do most of the work for you. Probably just a sender-only one which rewrites the user accounts to the externally visible version and anything else to some reasonable default (in case some system user sends mail). -- Mark Bro

Re: MOSIX under Debian

2000-06-18 Thread Mark Brown
o Debian. Take a look at the debian-beowulf archives - there's been some discussion of MOSIX there. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp6uuhJDlwq

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