David Wright wrote:
> FYI:
>
> I installed iwatch, and that immediately generated two messages from
> /etc/.etckeeper. Then I upgraded:
>
> apt apt-doc apt-utils bind9-host curl dnsutils exim4
> exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
> firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb gstreamer1.0-gl
> g
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:51:16PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
>> I learned something as well, how to delete mails. First see
>> how many mails there are, say there are 756, then type
>> t 1-756 RET and then hold down q :)
>
> That's a slow way. "T iwatch ; d" or "T ~b i
On Wed 05 May 2021 at 07:26:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are
> > being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the
> > log, which was for the /etc/.pwd
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:51:16PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
I learned something as well, how to delete mails. First see
how many mails there are, say there are 756, then type t 1-756
RET and then hold down q :)
That's a slow way. "T iwatch ; d" or "T ~b iwatch ; d" would be faster
(using ; bo
On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-05-07 at 09:39 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > - 1 I don't understand (who is .pwd.lock [...])
> I thought that was explained on this list a few days ago [...]
Oh, thanks. Must have missed that part :)
Cheers
- t
signatu
On Fri, 2021-05-07 at 09:39 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> - 1 I don't understand (who is .pwd.lock and what is she
> doing in my /etc? [1]).
I thought that was explained on this list a few days ago (and 17 years
ago! [2]). The file is used by lckpwdf() function [3][4] which is used
to seria
On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:21:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
[...]
> Well, here are the files on my system:
>
> # find /etc -type f -name '.*' -ls | sort -k 11
> -rwx-- 84357 May 6 08:25 /etc/.etckeeper
> -rw--- 932 Apr 3 2020 /etc/.gitignore
> -rw-r--r-- 0 Apr 3 2020 /et
On Thu 06 May 2021 at 10:46:03 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 02:37:17PM +, davidson wrote:
> > > $ shopt -s globstar
> > > $ ls /etc/**/.[^.]*
> >
> > It now occurs to me that this still omits files like /etc/.a and
> > /etc/..metadotfile
>
> It doesn't omit .a . Th
On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 02:37:17PM +, davidson wrote:
> > $ shopt -s globstar
> > $ ls /etc/**/.[^.]*
>
> It now occurs to me that this still omits files like /etc/.a and
> /etc/..metadotfile
It doesn't omit .a . The * is allowed to match the empty string.
> Instead,
>
> $ ls /etc/**/.{.?
On Thu, 6 May 2021 davidson wrote:
[dd]
To that end, I can occasionally do something like
$ ls -Rp | less
and make a point of examining the first couple of things that look
unfamiliar.
This misses out dotfiles.
[dd]
So when I look for what I'm missing out on, and do...
$ shopt -s globstar
$
On Wed, 5 May 2021 David Wright wrote:
[dd]
One thing I didn't learn is why .pwd.lock is in /etc/ rather than,
say, /run/lock/. Perhaps related, why are there dotfiles in /etc/
anyway. (.git/, .java/, .etckeeper, .gitignore are the others.)
What are they hiding from?
[dd]
I would assume that t
On Wed 05 May 2021 at 12:01:07 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:36:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > OTOH perhaps monkeysphere has some reason to lock /etc/passwd et al
> > during operation. Running strings on its binaries might throw up
> > some 'pwd.lock' matches. Or o
On Wed, 5 May 2021 10:36:53 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> [W]hy are there dotfiles in /etc/ anyway.
> (.git/, .java/, .etckeeper, .gitignore are the others.) What are they
> hiding from?
Indeed. And shouldn't one be backing them up?
I see that amanda has been backing them up and that "add *" in
a
David Wright wrote:
> Yes, it was an assumption, and perhaps now we shall never
> know. (Sampling the emails didn't appeasr to be an option.)
> We also were not told whether 2757 notifications came in
> over a week, a month, a year, or since openssh-client was
> installed, whenever that was (possi
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I interpreted it as literally being thousands of instances
> of the *same* file, the one shown in the Subject: header and
> in the original message body.
They were all from iwatch, but they were so many I don't know
if they were exactly the same, and now I don't get any (ma
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:36:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> OTOH perhaps monkeysphere has some reason to lock /etc/passwd et al
> during operation. Running strings on its binaries might throw up
> some 'pwd.lock' matches. Or one could inotifywatch the program to
> see how often it is run (unles
On Wed 05 May 2021 at 07:26:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are
> > being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the
> > log, which was for the /etc/.pwd
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are
> being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the
> log, which was for the /etc/.pwd.lock lockfile. I assume you don't
> have 2757 of these but, rather,
David Wright wrote:
> Myself, I find inotify-tools more useful: I use inotifywait
> in a loop, waiting for a browser to close files in its
> cache. I then examine their filetype and copy the ones
> I want, giving them sensible (timestamp) names. Very useful
> for capturing (typically, live) video.
David Wright wrote:
> might help determine why you installed iwatch.
Oh, so I did?
Well then, I'll just remove it!
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David Wright wrote:
> $ aptitude why iwatch
i openssh-client Suggests monkeysphere
i A monkeysphere Suggests monkeysphere-validation-agent
i A msva-perl Provides monkeysphere-validation-agent
i A msva-perl Recommends liblinux-in
Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> The manpage at
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html
> shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch
> configuration and see what it is doing.
Thanks, but I've never heard of iwatch, so I haven't mucked
around with its config file. But
On Wed 05 May 2021 at 04:39:21 (+0200), Emanuel Berg wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
>
> > might help determine why you installed iwatch.
>
> Oh, so I did?
>
> Well then, I'll just remove it!
Myself, I find inotify-tools more useful: I use inotifywait in a loop,
waiting for a browser to close file
>> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event.
>> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified
>> file open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you
>> have an "incron" job somewhere?
>
> I have cron do two very short scripts every @midnight, these
> run fine indivi
On Wed 05 May 2021 at 03:11:53 (+0200), Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
> > The manpage at
> > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html
> > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch
> > configuration and see what it is doing.
>
> Thanks, but I've
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:11:53AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> > The manpage at
> > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html
> > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch
> > configuration and see what it is doing.
>
> Thanks, but I've n
On Tue, May 04 2021 at 11:11:02 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Darac Marjal wrote:
>
>> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event.
>> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file
>> open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have
>> an "incron" job somewhere?
>
Darac Marjal wrote:
> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event.
> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file
> open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have
> an "incron" job somewhere?
I have cron do two very short scripts every @midnight, these
run
Darac Marjal wrote:
>> I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the
>> moment - that tells me that
>>
>> [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33]
>> IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock
>> * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed
>>
>> Any clues what that problem mig
I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the moment -
that tells me that
[ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33]
IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock
* /etc/.pwd.lock is closed
Any clues what that problem might be?
TIA
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On 04/05/2021 07:12, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the moment -
> that tells me that
>
> [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33]
> IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock
> * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed
>
> Any clues what that problem might be?
Th
On 04/20/2013 02:47 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:39:12PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 04/20/2013 02:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
My system mail is getting sent to $HOME/Mail/mbox instead of to
/var/spool/mail/rob. I may have set that on purpose a long time ago,
but I don&#
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:39:12PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 04/20/2013 02:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> >My system mail is getting sent to $HOME/Mail/mbox instead of to
> >/var/spool/mail/rob. I may have set that on purpose a long time ago,
> >but I don't remember.
On 04/20/2013 02:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
My system mail is getting sent to $HOME/Mail/mbox instead of to
/var/spool/mail/rob. I may have set that on purpose a long time ago,
but I don't remember. I'd like it to go to the normal mail spool now.
How do I set that?
-Rob
Check /etc/a
My system mail is getting sent to $HOME/Mail/mbox instead of to
/var/spool/mail/rob. I may have set that on purpose a long time ago,
but I don't remember. I'd like it to go to the normal mail spool now.
How do I set that?
-Rob
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On Thursday 04 December 2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'Re: strange system mail : what does this mean ?':
>Two of them: install anacron ASAP and upgrade to Etch.
I agree. I install anacron even on system intended to be on 24x7 so that
cron jobs aren'
[CC'd because you mail headers indicate you want replies sent to your
address.]
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'strange system mail : what does this mean ?':
>/boot/lost+found#cd #171379
>/#
The octothorpe ('#') mark
s had never been run,
because it was always off in the early morning hours. Or do you get up
early and turn it on before 6:25 a.m. ?
> In the morning, I noticed that a system mail had come :
>
> *
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 04 06:25:57 2008
Hi to everyone,
My system (Debian Sarge) was left running all night (usually I shut it
down). In the morning, I noticed that a system mail had come :
*
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 04 06:25:57 2008
Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Envelope-to:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:45:28AM EST, Michael Pobega wrote:
[..]
> I'd like to do the same thing as the OP, but I'm using Mutt and I
> don't know how to configure it for two accounts --
mutt lets you navigate your local file system looking for mbox's..
maildir's .. and display their contents i
t exit. I'd like to do the same thing as the OP, but
> I'm using Mutt and I don't know how to configure it for two accounts --
> Can't I just get the system to dump all system mail in ~/email/?
What "system" (a.k.a. MTA/MDA)?
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sunday 2008 November 23 15:54, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/23/08 12:54, subscriptions wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:22 +0100, Jack wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually
> >> read
> >> using the command line "mail" program, for exam
to ensure that system mail is
sent to "me".
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On 2008-11-24 15:27 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/24/08 05:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Gets installed with exim4-config
>
> Not everyone uses exim4.
Those of us who use postfix should read aliases(5) instead.
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On 11/24/08 05:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[snip]
Gets installed with exim4-config
Not everyone uses exim4.
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ormal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
If yes, how to configure to do so?
man etc-aliases
That man page doesn't exit. I'd like to do the same thing as the OP, but
I'm using Mutt and I don't know how to configure it for two accounts --
Can't I just get
any other desktop mail program?
If yes, how to configure to do so?
man etc-aliases
That man page doesn't exit. I'd like to do the same thing as the OP, but
I'm using Mutt and I don't know how to configure it for two accounts --
Can't I just get the system to dump all syste
ail account configuration, choose "Privileged Mutt Dotlock" (or
whatever it reads like), it works like a charm for me, and I have Mutt
and Kmail configured to retrieve the system mail (Kmail is friendly,
Mutt is much much better over ssh...).
Tom
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so?
The complicated[1] way to solve this is to have fetchmail feed an
MTA (which SpamAssassin can plug into) which feeds an MDA like
procmail or maildrop which puts the mail in a user's Maildir. Your
MUA then accesses mail thru an IMAP server.
How this relates to your question is that syst
On 11/23/08 12:54, subscriptions wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:22 +0100, Jack wrote:
Hello,
is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually
read
using the command line "mail" program, for example system error
reports) as
normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 21:36 +0100, Jack wrote:
> Transmission failed: Could not lock /var/mail/myusername
> of course i'm trying to read my own mail.
> Permission problems?
>
> ls -lah /var/mail/
>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K 2008-11-23 21:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K 2008-07-26 12:05
mal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
> >
> > If yes, how to configure to do so?
>
> man etc-aliases
That man page doesn't exit. I'd like to do the same thing as the OP, but
I'm using Mutt and I don't know how to configure it f
> It's very easy in kmail. Just create a new account, choose "local inbox,"
and
> point it to the account (in /var/mail/ ) that you want to monitor.
Thanks for the quick reply
It was indeed very easy to setup, but i'm getting an error:
Transmission failed: Could not lock /var/mail/myusername
Jack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read
> using the command line "mail" program, for example system error reports) as
> normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
>
> If yes, how to configure to do so?
man etc-aliases
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On Sunday 23 November 2008 10:22:11 am Jack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read
> using the command line "mail" program, for example system error reports) as
> normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
>
> If yes, how to c
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:22 +0100, Jack wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually
> read
> using the command line "mail" program, for example system error
> reports) as
> normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
>
> If yes, how
Hello,
is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read
using the command line "mail" program, for example system error reports) as
normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail program?
If yes, how to configure to do so?
I'm using Lenny at the moment.
Thanks
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On 2008-04-26T15:11:22-0600, Troy Telford wrote:
> However, after I changed the hostname, I don't seem to be able to get
> any system mail - (ie. the mdadm daemon sends root an email to announce
> that the raid array is in a degraded state, etc).
Check the configuration files f
to be able to get
any system mail - (ie. the mdadm daemon sends root an email to announce
that the raid array is in a degraded state, etc).
Another (trivial) issue is linuxlogo - even after apt-get purging and
re-installing linuxlogo, it still has the old hostname. Is there
something I need t
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On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:13, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> In this case, what is the Debian way to run an absolutely minimum MTA,
> the smallest possible footprint, least likely setup to disrupt apt-get'd
> applications, and as secure as possible.
tp in inetd.conf,
> eximconfig will not change this (at least if you select option 4).
> However, if you switch off smtp in inetd.conf and you still have the
> init scripts for exim, exim will automatically start in standalone mode
> the next time you reboot.
Yes, I did this, after exi
Hello
Jacob S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0600
> Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>> I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this
>> computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail.
>> Of course, now nothi
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:17:53 -0600
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0600
> Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this
> > computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local
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On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:15, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> In fact, exim doesn't have to be running at all to have local email
> delivered. Deinstalling however will cause dependency problems because
> packages like anacron, at, mailx and
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0600
Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this
> computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail. Of
> course, now nothing is listening on port 25 ;>
Are you sure nothing's list
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:27:28AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this computer
> is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail. Of course,
> now nothing is listening on port 25 ;>
>
> Nevertheless, having exim installed on t
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:11:15:09:15:22+0100] scribed:
> Hello
>
> John L. Fjellstad (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> >> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25
Hello
Tom (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
>> >> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
>
> Is there any reason why exim has to listen on all IP addresses by
> default? I think it would be reasonable to ask during eximconf
> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> >> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
Is there any reason why exim has to listen on all IP addresses by
default? I think it would be reasonable to ask during eximconf whether
or not one wants to listen on 127.0.0.
Hello
John L. Fjellstad (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
>> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
>>
>> I do want system mail (cron, error messages, &c.) to be delivered to
>> roo
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On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
>
> I do want system mail (cron, error messages, &c.) to be delivered to
> root.
>
> Is exim required?
>
&g
I am building a Debian web server for a DMZ.
I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
I do want system mail (cron, error messages, &c.) to be delivered to
root.
Is exim required?
If I uninstall exim, will system mail continue to be delivered?
What is the Debian way to accomp
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 09:34:25AM +1100, Brian May wrote
>
> Anyone knows what this error means?
>
> This message *was* posted to debian-user, despite the error. I
> got replies...
>
> Also, note that the address the bounced message was posted "to"
> an illegal address.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone knows what this error means?
This message *was* posted to debian-user, despite the error. I
got replies...
Also, note that the address the bounced message was posted "to"
an illegal address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]doesn't exist, nor have I ever used it.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] mis
"David Karlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Phillip,
> I recently installed Exim as well. My /etc/exim.conf includes:
>
> local_domains = mybox.mylocalnet:localhost
>
> (replace mybox.mylocalnet with yourbox.yourlocalnet)
>
> Hope that was of some help,
Thanks, David, but I had alread
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 1:17 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail?
>
>
> Yesterday I decided to replace Sendmail with Exim. I used apt-get to
> download and install it, and soon got it up and workin
Thanks to those of you who replied so quickly.
I have made sure that in /etc/aliases I have:
postmaster: root
root: gsmh
#root: root
at the top of the list.
Then, in exim.conf, I have:
# qualify_recipient =
qualify_domain = gmx.net
local_domains = scgf.gmx.net:localhost
local_domains_include_
Yesterday I decided to replace Sendmail with Exim. I used apt-get to
download and install it, and soon got it up and working. The *only*
thing which appears not to work is the mail I used to get from, for
example, cron when a cron job in /etc/crontab executed overnight. When I
used sendmail, I used
I looked at the system's mailbox files and netscapes and they appear to be
in the same format. Is it possible for netscape to use the mailboxes
created by procmail and/or the system?? -- Wondering if Netscape will
handle new mail and what to do with the summary files.
-Paul
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