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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Ric Otte wrote:
I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, ...
Why is that?
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I am running Lenny with exim4 and one user would like all email to him
to be rejected. I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail,
and wonder if there is an easy way to do this with exim. This user
basically wants no mail to be able to be delivered to his account.
Any suggestions
The IMAP server where I work is not very reliable, and I would like to
back it up each day of the week to a different directory, using cron.
Although offlineimap does not provide 1-way backup, I set up
offlineimap to do something like this. Basically I have an
offlineimaprc file for each
On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:16:47AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
I tried both of these. Now when I type 'c' I get a suggested
mailbox to go
to (one with new mail), but if I type a '?' I am given a list of
mailbox
On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Martin Marcher wrote:
see the check_subscribed option in the manual (imap_check_subscribed,
imap_list_subscribed may also be what you want)
less /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
hth
martin
I tried both of these. Now when I type 'c' I get a suggested mailbox
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:15:29PM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote:
>
> On 1-mei-2007, at 17:09, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >I have a Mac on my desk at home, and I'm looking for a way to back
> >it up to one of the Linux servers I have sitting in a data center.
> >
> >Any suggestio
I finally was able to boot into the copied partition. I found that
/dev/console did not exist, so I created it and changed permissions on
/dev/null. Then I'm able to boot.
I still don't know why it wasn't copied over, but it's fixed now.
Thanks for the help,
Ric
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
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> Are you sure you made the necessary changes to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg
> and /etc/fstab before calling yaird?
>
> You can extract the relevant file, "init", from the new initrd like this:
>
> zcat new-initrd-name | cpio -i ini
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:25:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:53:38 -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> > I wanted to migrate a sid install from a partition on a sata drive to a
> > partition on another ide drive. I used dd to copy the partion, changed
> >
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:46:36PM +, David Claughton wrote:
> Ric Otte otte.ucsc.edu> writes:
>
> >
> > Is there any place besides /etc/fstab that indicates what partitions to
> > mount? I changed /etc/mtab, but that didn't help, and can't find any oth
I wanted to migrate a sid install from a partition on a sata drive to a
partition on another ide drive. I used dd to copy the partion, changed
fstab, and tried to boot into the system on the ide drive. Grub recognizes
the ide drive, begins to boot, but after several (maybe 7 or 8 screens) of
data
Hi,
I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive,
did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4
(hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda10
to hdc2, using dd. Everything looks fine in hdc2, and when I mou
I have a AMD XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard and 512M of ram.
Recently I noticed many errors in the log files, everything from kernel oops
to errors on the hard drive. I replaced the drive with a new one and did a
fresh install of etch. I still got lots of errors, especially hard drive
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm playing with the filters in audacity
and rezound; they seem to help a bit, but I still haven't been able to
make the voices understandable.
If anyone is interested, I placed a 4 second sample of the voices at
http://people.ucsc.edu/~otte/sound.test.aiff
Thanks for
Hi,
I have a recording of a wedding at a beach, but it is very difficult
to make out the words because of the noise due to the waves and wind.
I am looking for suggestions about how to begin editing the file to
remove the noise and retain the voices. I've looked a bit at rezound
and audacity, but
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:50:48AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Ric Otte wrote:
>
> > Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one
> > has lots of songs on a mac in .m4a format and wants to convert them
> > all to FLAC; is there a simple command th
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:00:34PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> The font paths have changed for Xorg 7.0. You should change the
> beginning of all FontPath definitions in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf from
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/" to "/usr/share/fonts/X11/". The last entry
> in your log suggest
I recently did a dist-upgrade on my sid machine and no longer have a working
X system. When I try to startx, the screen will go dark, and then in a few
seconds I'll be returned to the console. (interestingly, if I simply type
"X", the screen will go grey, the mouse (working) will be a "X", but n
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>
> Another reason to use FLAC: it uses the same tag structure as Ogg
> Vorbis. And when using oggenc to convert FLAC to Vorbis, all tags are
> preserved.
>
Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one
has lots
Hi,
Further reading of the manual shows digikam can do this automatically;
So far it seems to be working.
Ric
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Hi,
I tried things like:
multi-gnome-terminal --font=adobe-helvetica
But got the following:
The font "adobe-helvetica" does not support all the required
character sets for the current locale "en_US"
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
In .gnom
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:33:19PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> On 07/10/05, Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> > > >Best sol
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> >Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If
> >that's impossible, you should look into offlineimap. Basically, it
> >syncs your local Mail with the
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:30:30PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Antony Gelberg:
> > Not as such, but you could install an IMAP server on the machine, then
> > use Thunderbird (or whatever).
>
> That is my advice, too. Setting up Dovecot for that task should't take
> more than half an hour. It's r
Hi,
I've been using mutt for several years, and really like it except for
when I need to follow a link. I've tried using urlview, but gave up
because I often didn't know what the urls were linked to. For
example, if I have an email with 50 links, when I call urlview I often
have no idea what lin
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:31:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ric Otte wrote:
> > One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or
> > rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that
> > according to top, Xfree86 is often usi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Does tar succeed as well?
>
Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and
fsck says everything is fine.
One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or
rsync (and also tar, although I didn
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Hmmm, try:
> $ hpmount /dev/hdc2
> *** bla
> *** blo
> y
> $ hpumount
> hpumount: destroy: bli
> $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS
>
> Elimar
That gave me the following:
hpmount: /dev/hdc2: This is not a HFS+ volume (Unkno
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:07:44PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of
> Ric Otte told:
>
> [...]
> > I have hfsplus and hfsutils installed, so that isn't the problem.
> > I now wonder if Linux supports reading HFS+ filesy
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:35:08AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 the mental interface of
> Ric Otte told:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one
> > hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and o
Hi,
I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one
hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and one ext3. I formatted the hfsplus
partion on a mac, but when I mount it using mount -thfsplus /dev/hdc2
/HFS, the partion does not show up being anywhere near 150gb; instead
it shows up as
To explain my puzzle a bit more, I thought that when I ran
update-menus, the script in /etc/menu-menthods/fluxbox would update
the fluxbox menus. That is what doesn't appear to be happening.
Thanks,
Ric
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:51:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or
> > I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /e
Hi,
I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or
I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and
ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but
don't under fluxbox.
They don't seem to be listed properly in either
/etc/X11/flux
Hi,
I am running logcheck 1.2.28 but am unable to modify the rules to prevent
certain information being mailed to me. I get loads of messages like the
following in the System Events section of the email:
Nov 24 01:08:01 phil cron(pam_unix)[4763]: session opened for user mail by
(uid=0)
Nov 24 0
I recompiled the kernel, compiling in AGP_VIA directly and not as a
module. This then turned on direct rendering when I booted up, and
glxgears is about twice as fast:
glxgears
1900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 380.000 FPS
2266 frames in 5.0 seconds = 453.200 FPS
2267 frames in 5.0 seco
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:34:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Try the suggested fix at
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html#nodri
> (I know you're not using an nVidia card, but the fix described there is
> generic).
>
This was quite interesting, but didn't w
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:19:39AM -0600, Justin Guerin wrote:
> Just a guess, but did you reconfigure X to run at a nice value of 0? The
> 2.4 kernels ran best when X was niced to -10, but with the 2.6 anticipatory
> scheduler, it turns out to be a bad thing.
>
> Also, check out your /etc/modu
Things are very slow for me under 2.6 kernels. Under 2.4.16 I was able to
play tuxracer just fine, but under 2.6.6 things are so slow that it is
unplayable (a second or so pause between command and action). I ran glxgears
under 2.4.16 and got output like:
2430 frames in 5.0 seconds = 486.000
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I had a similar problem
>
> It turns out that my ISP had some spam messages with a single "." on a line by
> itself. Instead of escaping these, it was transmitting then to me - which
> was causing fetchmail to think it had got to
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:14:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi rick,
> I have fetchmail run at intervals (like every 10 minutes) (CRON can do
> this) and ask it to
> download a few email at a time (like with --fetchlimit=20). So, I always
> get a few emails every once in a while. This approach m
If I allow a large number of emails to build up at my email provider, I have
problems downloading them. When I run fetchmail, I can download 100-200
of them, but then I get a message such as the following:
reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:195 of 399 (10332 octets) flushed
reading message [EMAIL
I was going to install squirrelmail and received the message that
apache2-mpm-worker would be removed and replaced with
apache2-mpm-prefork. I had previously installed apache2-mpm-worker
because it was the recommended version of apache2. Does anyone know
why squirrelmail won't work with ..worker
Hi,
I am running a testing machine and just did a dist-upgrade. This time
when I start Mutt from the menus, it shows up in reverse video.
Before it looked as if it was being run from rxvt, which is not in
reverse video. Now it looks as if it is being run in xterm, which also
starts in reverse vide
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and
> nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims
> mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will
> avifile-pl
Sorry, I mistyped. Instead of
> ..For each incremental
> backup, I then type:
> tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP1 --listed-incremental=LIST
Instead, I should have typed:
tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP2 ..listed-incremental=LIST
Ric
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I'm trying to use tar for incremental backups. After reading what I could
find on the web, it looks as if I need to use the "--listed-incremental"
option. With this option tar creates a file that keeps track of the changes.
So if (in /home/ric) I type:
tar -cvf /mnt/BACKUP1 --listed-increm
, hwclock.sh, etc-setserial, hotplug,
urandom, networking, umountfs, and halt. Should I also try to type
'update-rc.d NAME defaults' for them?
Thanks,
Ric
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:32:29AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:44 GMT, Ric Otte penned:
> > I re
I recently lost my hard drive, and after restoring, fetchmail does not
work. I get the smtp failed for localhost message, and discovered
that exim is not running (I can't telnet to localhost 25). Things
work fine if I start exim manually (/usr/sbin/exim -bd), or if I do
"/etc/init.d/inetd restart
My hard drive recently died, and after installing a new one, I tried to get
things working by first using Mondo to restore my system to the way it was a
year ago. That worked fine. I then took a recent list of packages, and did:
dpkg --set-selectionshttp://www.XFree86.Org/cvs)
XFree86 Version
Hi,
Well, after trying many different things, I finally got it to work. I
put the following line in my .vimrc:
au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline
I don't know why that solved the problem, and the line:
set textwidth=77
in .vimrc didn't work. But at least it is working. Thanks fo
te:
> Thus spake Ric Otte:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem.
> > But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on
> > the same line as, and right before the original message), the line d
Hi,
I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem.
But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on
the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does
not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have set in .vimrc). What
happens is t
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200,
> > Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ri
Hi,
I would like to run all of the files in some directories through sed, in
order to edit the files. I can do it for individual files by typing:
cat filename|sed command>filename
But that requires me to run that command for each file. I was wondering if
anyone could 1) give me a reference to a
Thanks for all the comments. I'm going to sign up, and this will all be
very helpful when I set it up. I think I will ask for the box that is a
modem/router/wireless for $50 instead of the free modem, which should
then be easy to hook up to my linux machine.
Best,
Ric
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Hi,
I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them
up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support
confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with
Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't
work. She said t
Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may stick to less than 137gb to avoid
using the adapter card.
Ric
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:13:17PM -0600, Lupust wrote:
>
> The 2.4.x kernel supports them, but you also have to have either a
> mainboard with ATA/133 or a ATA/133 adapter card. I am using a 160
Hi,
Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160,
180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort
of patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install
it just as I would a normal hard drive?Thanks,
Ric
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Thanks, that did it!
Ric
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:50:33PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:14PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote:
> > I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with
> > hfs file support (so I can read disks given to
I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with
hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac).
When I type 'make menuconfig' I do not get the option of compiling hfs
file support. It has lots of other types of file system support, such
as ext3 and rei
Hi,
I am wanting to change my mail from mbox format to maildir format (to make it
easier to incrementally backup my email using rsync). I don't really understand
the differences between MH and maildir, but rather arbitrarily decided to go with
maildir. Before I completely screw things up I thoug
to see if this
continues to work. It puzzles me, because I believe DMA was on when the
cd burner was in my home machine.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Ric
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:36:49AM +1100, bob parker wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:53, Ric Otte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> Jus
Hi,
I moved a Sony cdburner from my home machine to my office machine (testing), but
am now unable to burn data cds. I am able to burn music cds (.wav files) using
the command:
cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,1,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav
To burn a data file I (as root) first type:
mkisofs -r -o outp
Shyamal,
Among other very useful things, you wrote:
> This is the key part. Your mail is being delivered to ric@otte, and
> I'm guessing this is fetchmail. But "otte" is not a local domain, so
> it is being sent to your smart host. My question would be: where
> exactly d
.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=6906
id=p05111a0ab9f066d9996b@[128.114.181.73]
2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 => ric@otte R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp H=smtp.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35]
2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 Completed
And here is another entry in exim/mainlog for the same message, 11
minutes
Thanks for the suggestion about locks on procmailrc. I changed them.
But I don't think the slowness problem is due to too many messages in
exim's queue; I check my mail frequently, and usually get less than 5
messages at a time. But I'll reread the exim man page. Thanks,
Ric
On Wed, Nov 06, 20
I am running Debian 2.2.17 on my office machine connected to a university
network. When I'm in my office things work well, and I am connected well to
the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not being used,
it cannot be pinged from the outside world (it can be pinged when I'm
I hadn't known about the /etc/network/interfaces file, and when I fiddled with
it, things seem to be fixed. Thanks very much!
Ric
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:06:10PM -0500, k l u r t wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 December 2001 01:24 pm, Ric Otte wrote:
> > Yep, I did mean to write
Yep, I did mean to write that I want to connect to the Internet with ppp,
instead
of "I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp". Basically I'm wanting to use
the
machine at home instead of my office. I'm sorry for the confusion.
SO, if I need to delete the default route to the internet via
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