Yes, it was called fmt and is sometimes found with the name newfmt.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name
escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near
to a desired length as possible without splitting words.
rcs wasn't originally intended to manage software. It was originally
intended as a documents manager then branched out to be able to manage
anything that could be stored by way of electronic archiving. I'm not
familiar with the historis of the newer revision control systems though so
won't
One possible approach would be to use a few files and use paste on those
files where:
dfile holds date,
mfile holds good messages,
sfile holds spam messages
tfile is temporary file
paste dfile mfile tfile
paste tfile sfile dfile
rm mfile
rm sfile
rm tfile
cat dfile
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That's the reason for the iso9660 format among others.
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Right, those braces now logically link those two recipes together into one
unit.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2007-09-14 16:54:27, schrieb Jude DaShiell:
# create backup for de-html'd email
:0 c
* ^Content-Type: text/html
de-html-backup
# de-html
:0 fbw
* ^Content-Type
, Richard Lyons wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:01:21AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime
attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through
uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using that procmail stuff
I have to do some investigating. The note the procmail snippet puts into
a message was found with the message's header but no body content.
Possibly uudeview may need some work or perhaps another tool might work
better. I forgot earlier to have uudeview work on standard input but got
that
There's a utility called mailtextbody that may be what's neded to strip
mime. That before the | lynx -dump in the code snippet may work better
than uudeview.
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This may be important, are you running with etch or one of the other
distributions? I run unstable myself but have had no need to try
recording with alsa so can't verify or refute your experiences in this
instance.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing up to date as of
I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided
the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the
message first to another folder; then they run the message contents
through lynx -dump -stdin -nolist and back out into the message stream.
They also
What I have over here appears to be working since the de-html-backup file
already has 29 lines of text in it. So here's a little patch to be placed
in the .procmailrc file above the default recipe if one exists.
Cut here:
# create backup for de-html'd email
:0 c
* ^Content-Type: text/html
If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into
message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message
first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx.
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Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime
attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through
uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using that procmail stuff
may solve this problem. I'll know by tomorrow since I have a few lists
that send
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 09/10/07 04:27, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Thanks for the exim4 smart host help. I would almost go with postfix
except the smart host requires authentication but doesn't support any
encryption for doing authentication on their end.
Maybe I just haven't had
When you do an uninstall with purge, your original packages are still in
/var/cache/apt/archives. I had a situation with timidity that was similar
though I had lost one of timidity's configuration files and reinstalling
using packages already on the hard drive did not repair the situation. I
What I meant was that if postfix had the capability to do smarthost
authentication I didn't know about the syntax for it or where any such
syntax would have been stored in configuration files.
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If using exim4 and it's necessary to use a smarthoast where can that be
configured? I find sendmail less complex than exim4 and all other mail
transport agents I've tried less complex than the pair of them.
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are a hassle for them to set up and maintain on their ends.
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 09/10/07 02:26, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:42:32AM +, Jude DaShiell wrote:
If using exim4 and it's necessary to use
As root, type tasksel and hit return. Arrow down to desktop environment
and hit space bar once. If you see a star appear to the left of desktop
environment you've selected it. Next, hit return to tell tasksel to work.
It should download several packages for you. When the root prompt
Why not try opening the file with msword then use save-as selection box on
the file menu to save in your format of choice?
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Thanks even after having changed dir goemon in /etc/timidity/goemon.cfg to
read: dir /usr/share/local/midi/goemon there's several instruments that
don't map anywhere including about 75 drum sets with the first midi file I
tried to play. I've got others and will try them next.
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I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out
missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert
the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so
which format and what tool does that conversion? If midi files aren't
possible
emacs or xemacs and html-helper-mode-el.
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August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote:
how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls.
The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on
disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves
back into the areas where no more disk wiping
A guess is that the parameters need reversing.
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
Use the knoppix-installer utility (run in a terminal window)
-ishwar
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was
Debian.) from a
Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them.
That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you
can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from
http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on
the
In your apt.conf file try a line like exclude texl* and see if that helps.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, - Tong - wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix,
keeping tetex from upgrading to
to
happen. Trojan file names get changed too whenever this happens too.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote:
On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them.
That was found out in a security lab by security professionals
clamscan encountered a libclamav error message is not in uuencoded format.
Interestingly, there's no email on this machine for it to be scanning.
Clamscan script that generated this error follows.
cut here.
#!/bin/bash
# file: cs - clamscan script
clamscan -l clamscan`date -I`.log -r --bell
It only takes one line appended to a shell script:
echo $_ status.log
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apache needs setting up and that's beyond just installing it. It's also
not trivial. That 0 carrier line in each of your interface read outs
means you're not getting out on that interface. If you intend to run a
web server on your local box and are allowed to run a web server on your
local
hierarchy input output charts and no extra software for diagramming not
necessary. To support that, interface specifications at the top of each
module containing corresponding tags used in hierarchy input output
charts. I find data flow diagrams too visual and their symbols don't come
out
Oh, I know how to make that happen. Just put the dsl or router's
configuration address in the /etc/resolv.conf file as the search domain
and clear out the servers in that file. Could be your router or modem was
told by your provider or manufacturer that it needs a firmware update.
Another
type (n) at that prompt.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Bob Middaugh wrote:
Hi,
I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root pwd,
Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu.
After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm
currently running and
If possible download the modconf package and run it. It'll update
/etc/moules for you after you select the devices your computer has that
debian supports and on boot up will run those modules for you starting up
those devices. The /etc/modules file format is dirt simple, only one
module name
Try typing lsusb -v cr and see if things start to work after you do
that. I don't know why it is, but a usb iomega 250MB zip disk with a
useable disk in it on this machine doesn't become useful until after I've
done that command.
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Try the ubuntu-accessibility list. If you get the chance in a gnome
terminal type orca -t cr one day and make sure you hve speakers hooked
up to your sound card when you do that. Headphones can be substituted for
speakers in classroom settings though.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, ZephyrQ wrote:
slrn. Why? Because it also finds private newsgroups on servers as well
as the public newsgroups. Others I've tried can't do that. tin fails
here which surprised me.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Hey guys,
Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an
Ah, that kind of news! apt-get snownews then.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, John K Masters wrote:
On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
John Hasler jhasler at debian.org writes:
Amit writes:
Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
I doubt anyone uses a command-line
safari has rss capabilities already built in.
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snownews is a cli rss reader and I use it. Maybe I'm the only one to do
so, since I haven't yet got orca talking in Debian but there it is.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
John Hasler jhasler at debian.org writes:
Amit writes:
Any of you use newsreaders from the
The first thing to do with a firewall is to deny all incoming traffic.
Once that's been taken care of then decide on which specific types and
sources of incoming traffic to allow. This way you can clear out
offending ip addresses since they'll all be banned with your first
firewall rule. The
Issue 3 can be handled if you remember to run script and then do your
complex ftp command and exit out of both at the end. All you need do then
is to edit the file script makes for you and turn it into a short shell
script and make it useable. I use the name surf for my scripts when I
need
Have you run tasksel and selected the laptop option yet? If not doing
that may make life a little better. I just got a Dell latitude c810 last
night with no operating system on it and I'm going to put a form of Debian
Linux on it. So this is something close to my first exposure to laptops.
For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped
with the most functions?
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you might look at arno-iptables-script as another possibility.
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It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on
another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and
burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all
hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had
Mike,
We both have the same kind of sound card. Things to do if those haven't
yet been done. Understand first Debian is a light traveling operating
system; what packages you didn't download beyond a basic set will not be
on your system. Contrast that with say slackware where all packages
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What user modifiable variable holds a user's email address in mutt? That
is the address once a message gets sent a reader will find on the from:
line? The x-sender field may need control too in my situation. The home
network has got a hostname and domain on it that not only don't exist
Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is it
only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location?
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The script used to generate the log appears first followed by the partial
preserved log.
#!/bin/bash
# file: cs - clamscan script
clamscan -l clamscan`date -I`.log -r --bell --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc
--exclude=/pts --exclude=/tmp -i --detect-broken --block-encrypted --block-max
When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I
get asked for the password for verizon.net and then get told the message
wasn't sent because no mail from command was sent. Is exim4 needing some
configuration repairs for this to work?
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read usenet messages but haven't tried posting anything since pine
wasn't working yet.
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:49:46AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I
get asked
pen drives if I'm not mistaken need sg and sr-mod in your /etc/modules
file. Those need the scsi drivers installed.
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There is no root partition. There is a root account but if memory serves
is located in the / partition. So if that's correct, it's the slash
partition you want to enlarge.
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When I run aptitude dist-upgrade for the last few days I'm getting an
error 404 back for the latest version of mysql-common package. That's the
first time I've had that happen and I regularly run aptitude update before
running aptitude dist-upgrade. Was that package withdrawn and the
-
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On 04/17/07 04:51, Jude DaShiell wrote:
When I run aptitude dist-upgrade for the last few days I'm getting an
error 404 back for the latest version of mysql-common package. That's
the first time I've had that happen and I regularly run aptitude update
before running aptitude dist-upgrade
I have a key in place that allows me to log into shellworld.net using ssh.
However attempts to use that key with sftp and scp and probably also
stelnet get a response from shellworld.net that received message is too
long. Is there some problem with debian or my configuration on the local
end?
The file is actually an mp3 file.
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I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for
podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast
under the date directory and put the actual mp3 files into that directory.
I don't know if it's changes in python or some subdirectories creation
If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql
recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or
upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens
you don't loose the data in the cache that didn't manage to get saved to
disk before
When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input
they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user
exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on
gnome-accessibility-list needs some output so we can get a screen reader
debugged. A
Thanks much!
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Jude DaShiell wrote:
When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input
they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user
exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on
gnome
I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive.
For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so
drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far
as I now know. There is all of that lvm stuff on the system running so
The discussion on dell and linux was what prompted me to make that post.
When I bought this Dell back in August of 1999 the only way Dell would
install linux was if you were a business. I got a bad combination of
win98se and office2000 that crashed the system regularly because
I'm trying to get getmail to work and am needing to have the incoming
e-mail filtered through clamscan which last night had clamscan throw
several errors one aout executing root commands. All I want to do with
the filtering is have clamscan inspect incoming messages and have it
dispose of
Dell is the only computer I've had the pleasure to break down for reuse
and recycling that has its hard drive close to the bottom of the front
panel screwed onto that panel from the outside with the cabling into the
drive inserted into the drive from below the bottom edge of the drive. You
A binary file usually starts out with a hex 1Ah character in the DOS world
at least. Other clues will be many characters with values in the range of
90H-FFH inclusive. Unix has a file utility whose source code is available
for examination and it's well worth the abundance of file format
-2.0 (0 (null)) dmsetup (0
(null))
Provides:
2.02.06-4 - lvm-binaries
Reverse Provides:
2007/3/24, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's not leaving its error messages in /var/log/dmesg for one thing. For
another it appears to complain about missing utilities for this kernel
version. If lvm
Solved, once lvm2 was installed and that was the only package needed
utilities ran and the system didn't throw errors this time. Thanks.
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It's not leaving its error messages in /var/log/dmesg for one thing. For
another it appears to complain about missing utilities for this kernel
version. If lvm is broken in kernel 2.6.18, how do I clear the system of
it and its problems?
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That depends. At least two alternatives exist depending on the number of
user accounts on the system and who is to have access. If access is to be
system-wide, /usr/local/bin is the place for these scripts. If a single
user or group of users is to have access, then /home/user/bin/ is proper.
1) The podracer default for podcasts organization is to first create a
date directory in form of 2007-02-18 inside a user's podcasts directory
then put all podcasts that come in for that date into that date
directory. That much of the podracer podcasts organization appears to
be
I've given up on hpodder because of repeated sqlite3 data base errors
already described here. These errors would sometimes be cleared if I
rebooted the machine but now not even that works anymore. When I used
sqlite3 hpodder.db and did an integrity check of the data base, I was told
What does hpodder thread blocked indefinitely mean? It's happening with
lots of sqlite3 errors and those errors in turn crash hpodder.
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An astrolog.dat file should have been included with the debian astrolog
package and wasn't. It could have been put in /usr/share/astrolog. The
ephemeris files located in ephemall.zip could have joined that
astrolog.dat file in /usr/share/astrolog as well but didn't. No matter I
got my
I tried that browser earlier but removed it from my machine because I
couldn't figure out how to get nettrick to download something like a
binary or iso file from the internet. There didn't seem to be any kind of
documented command to do this either so far as I could tell from reading
the
If you buy a computer and you have any doubt at all in your mind as to the
legality of the copy of windows that is already on the machine's hard
drive, erase entire hard drive and install Debian on machine. Had a
Russian Principal done this he wouldn't be being prosecuted for pirating
is current version of microcode.ctl superceded by kernel 2.6.18? If no,
its data file may be bad. That's what it tells me when I boot up a bx440
intel system running debian.
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with hpodder update files are claimed to be missing in the
/home/jude/.hpodder/feedxfer/ directory and this is causing hpodder to
throw exceptions and die. The associated files that are missing appear to
be from already existing feeds and unless I'm mistaken feeds are returning
smaller file
Earlier I set up a private key with ssh -keygen and copied it to the
proper place on my isp's computer for me to use. That works fine with ssh
but breaks with scp since scp says the key is too long and doesn't grant
access to the other machine. Could the pass phrase be too long for scp?
Have you tried running xrefresh and if so what happened?
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does some utility exist that can be used outside of X for locating and
describing available icecast streams? Alternately, what would one look for
with google to find these streams?
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1) make sure the package ca-certs is installed first nd it's current.
2) in /etc/ssl/certs/ directory do command cat * ssl-certs then
3) when the .ebrc file is bein edited in home directory put certfile =
/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-certs in the .ebrc file.
4) edbrowse can thereafter visit pages with
This happens with the debian distributed version of lynx when I try
logging into my google account. Do I need to rebuild the package and
perhaps link it to the ssl facilities on my system or do I need to
configure lynx in some way short of a rebuild? I'll probably download
source and build
Thanks much for the pointer, I read down far enough and found a web page
with a version of lynx that fixes the no common name in certificate error.
I was able to sign into my gmail account with no problems on that score
for the first time today using debian.
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1) groupadd wheel 2) adduser username wheel as root 3) edit /etc/sudoers
and remove the comment from line 25 that's the # character and save
sudoers overriding objections about it being read only, 4) go into your
user account and type sudo -i cr, 5) type whoami cr, 6) type exit
cr
The package isn't in the archives now so far as I can tell. Did it have a
security problem?
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Okay, what should I read to build the int-fiction-installer package in
conformance to current debian policy?
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I think there may be a fight ongoing between udev and my parallel zip
drive. does a way exist to have udev and the zip drive live happily
together?
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I managed to get the zip drive recognized in etch by rmmod imm followed by
modprobe imm. I can adjust /etc/fstab but this is strange udev and imm
didn't get this drive started earlier.
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http://www.sane-project.org/ is where to search for current status on what
sane does and does not support. Also, unless I'm mistaken (entirely
possible) a sane back end with a patch to support usb scanners needs
downloading and installing and isn't in the debian repositories.
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When I bring my network connection up, I use dhclient eth0 because that is
the specific connection I want opened. However dhclient opens up sit0 and
also generates an error 776 when doing so claiming that sit0 is an unknown
port. If I had wanted to open sit0, I could just as easily have told
Apparently debian tries to use acpi by default and I suspect your bios may
be too old. You might try acpi=force lapic as two boot parameters on the
kernel lines in menu.lst. After that's done try aptitude dist-upgrade as
root and when that's finished try shutdown -h now and power off the
Check /etc/apt/sources.list on both machines. If you are using the
uchicago mirrors for deb and deb-src, that's why this is happening. You
want to switch to another set of mirrors since uchicago seems to have got
itself corrupted. For a little while I had this problem too but cleared
it up
Try apt-cache search jack if memory serves that's a package that can get
cdrom's playing out of the cdrom jack. Even if you don't have speakers
you may still have a sound card and if that's the case try plugging those
earphones into the sound card to listen. Doing apt-cache search search
First apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get linux-image-2.6.18-amd not
aptitude apt-get. I made your mistake earlier and couldn't get beyond
2.6.08 and you should not ever get offers to delete running kernels if you
do this right. I did get a message that modules for my new kernel were
What happens when a directory contains more content than will fit on a
single cd when using this package? I sent it at a directory with 1.4g in
it on simulation and wasn't prompted to insert a second cd. Might that be
a defect in the simulation mode or must directory sizes be kept at or
hmmm, have you tried chattr +i on a list of the offending files once all
configurations are set correctly? There's a trick I'll do on my next
debian installation in which you get the lcap utility aptitude install
lcap and you set chattr +a on log files you don't want tampered and chattr
+i on
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