Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-23 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit logging). What would cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using screen to vim some Catalyst modules,

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-25 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Sunday, Chicago time (that's when /var/log/* abruptly stopped). Any idea what might cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using *screen* to *vim*

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread will trillich
Ooh, hadn't noticed that. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... :) So... Nobody else has had a weird shut-down-all-user-processes-and-all-daemons event? I must be special! On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM, elbbit elb...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/01/11 01:26, will trillich wrote

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread will trillich
That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as opposed to thinking it's a possibility? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: In kern.log there's only Jan 23 23:04:59 darth

spamassassin vs. html emails

2003-10-08 Thread Will Trillich
i get a LOT of spam that slips thru spamassassin -- it's multipart/alternative, but the only alternative is html, which i would hope would get a positive hit under html-only email test. the end of all the headers looks thus: Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

spam settings (5mb nei-group email every few minutes!)

2003-10-25 Thread Will Trillich
fingerprints on it. odd!) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #23 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering what you should BACK UP -- and what you shouldn't? Here's a how I do it written by a debian

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:11:27PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: As others have noted, virus traffic is not actually the same as spam-traffic, and you might want a particular tool for each job... That being said, what worked for me was to grab a backport of spamassassin 2.55 for woody from

Re: OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:07:05PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: Or I could take the plunge and switch to an address on my own domain, on my own mailserver. (The current one is hosted by my ISP.) But if I do that, I'll be all tempted to upgrade to exim4 with the funky integration with SA to do

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: | I'm finding with vim as my mail editor I jump in and out of insert mode | for things that are kind of basic. I miss from Nano: | | Control-A/Contrl-E for ^

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:43:44PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle | paste mode in Vim) another approach could be :set pastetoggle=F9 and use F9 whether in insert

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #40 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Why are ROOT LOGINS EVIL? The main problem is this: if you have a handful of trusted people who know the root password, you can't tell

Re: Black Holes.

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
-get. This is a Really Powerful Tool. http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #2 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Confused about using apt

Re: vim and french accents

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
occupy political office. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #48 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To peruse your CURRENT VIM SETTINGS (there's LOTS of them) from within Vim, simply do :options

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: Lately, I do more email than anything else so I figured that using vim for email would be a good way to learn. quite! And it's really got me curious because I'm sure

Re: how to install fresh woody on 3ware7506-LP / raid?

2004-01-21 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:19:58AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:38:57 -0600, Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i'm trying to get a fresh-from-cd woody install to work with (and install on) my 3ware 7506-4LP scsi/ide raid

Re: unchecked 31 times

2004-01-31 Thread Will Trillich
download sites to get them...) got pointers? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian

rock solid

2007-06-30 Thread will trillich
:42:12 up 190 days, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.05, 1.00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc Sat Jun 30 15:42:12 # ho hum, serves files, backs up, yada yada, all in a year's work. -- will trillich Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. -- Doris Von Kappelhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-06 Thread will trillich
(not mysql) backend, and phppgadmin for setting up the tables... any ideas? -- will trillich The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work -- and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. -- Steve Jobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-06 Thread trillich
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:50:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: RAD/rapid-application-development tool sought... (web page forms interface to a database we define) For RAD, here's what I do: write the documentation, then write the program in Python (possibly

lsof -- No such file or directory...?

2007-07-20 Thread will trillich
` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106324 2006-05-15 18:09 /usr/bin/lsof* eh? any ideas? -- will trillich The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work -- and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. -- Steve Jobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lsof -- No such file or directory...?

2007-07-20 Thread will trillich
. On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:16 -0500, will trillich wrote: # apt-get install lsof Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed lsof 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/205kB of archives

exim: too many connections?

2008-03-13 Thread will trillich
-bV Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Jan-2008 09:41:07 -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. -- Mike Krzyzewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

uptimes 50.0, dmesg says 'race' a lot...?

2006-08-24 Thread will trillich
, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 HighMem per-cpu: empty will a reboot-with-fsck fix this, maybe? or is there deeper doo-doo to wade through? -- will trillich The great enemy of clear language

Re: macintosh

2000-06-14 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:06:15PM -0400, wolf wrote: I have an old macintosh performa 550 which was upgraded to a powermac LC 550 is it possible to run and install linux on this machine? and if so where can I find the download? thanks : ) at http://www.debian.org/distrib/, there's useful

[OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-15 Thread Will Trillich
i'm in a mixed marriage. i'm mac, my wife is windows (not that she likes it, she just invested all that time and doesn't want it to be for nothing). and we now have a new member on the team, of course: debian linux. works like a champ! but this is a very odd situation. in my home i've got linux

Re: purging X from debian installation

2000-06-15 Thread Will Trillich
regarding perlmagick/imagemagick-- On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 06:31:18PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:25:19PM -0500, w trillich wrote i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell. i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and use only ncurses

Re: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:35:08PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: The easy answer is to remove dialup networking from her computer. sounds like a microso~1 solution alright. i'll try that. This is because brain-dead MS software can't be told to set the ethernet card as the primary default route -

Re: folders and mutt

2000-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:49:12PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:47:09PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: Procmail has a lot of flexibility and if you want I'll send you my procmail rules which do neat things like eliminating duplicate messages based on Message-ID

Re: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
/ ? -- From: Will Trillich[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 4:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--? i'm in a mixed marriage. i'm mac, my wife is windows and we now have a new member

what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
Here are some newbie-like networking questions that i hope some of you experts can elucidate for me: On my `ipfwadm -leO` output i notice among other rules... IP firewall output rules, default policy: deny pkts bytes type prot opt tosa tosx source destination ports 0 0 acc udp

apt-get install kernel\* -- package snags? (frozen)

2000-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
i'm still on a slink kernel, so i thought i'd have apt-get tell me what was available by using a wildcard -- it's always responded with a list of items, and then asks for confirmation before actually downloading anything. thus i know it's safe to ask... so i tried a 'shot in the dark': #

named - bad referral?

2000-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
i've been getting log entries like this lately: Jun 22 04:35:30 server named[21839]: bad referral (net ! EXODUS.NET) Jun 22 04:35:30 server named[21839]: bad referral (net ! EXODUS.NET) is that bad? can i make it stop? i also managed to get into ndc and make it do a dump, but i can't find the

Re: postfix help

2000-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 10:00:22PM -0500, Brad wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 04:04:00PM -0500, Charlie Kroeger wrote: One to look into is ddts.org. humm. I saw a caterpillar and a bug..no links no nothing. what? http://ddts.org Hmmm... odd. Use http://www.ddts.org then,

telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can use ^Z to suspend a foreground job, just like in the documentation. but ^Z seems to be

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:17:46AM +0200, Alberto Rodríguez Ortega wrote: Hi Will, At 13.23 29/6/00 -0500, Will Trillich wrote: i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
to grok ssh, it's all i've got. and i don't got ^Z. and i doubt that ssh will solve the particular problem anyhow. At 04:02 PM 6/29/00 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:51:35AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've got linux

Re: HeaderName in Apache autoindex

2000-06-30 Thread will trillich
well i got one promising reply, which i admit i haven't had time to check out: w trillich wrote: speaking of autoindex issues-- i can't get apache to display the HEADER or README files (above and below the tabular file listing), and when i posted my most recent question, someone else piped

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-07-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:49:34PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Will == Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will i want the remote (linux server) full-screen process (mutt, vi, Will etc) to suspend when i send ^Z, despite the fact that i'm using Will telnet, and not sitting

Re: .muttrc

2000-07-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: First things. Mutt will create a directory called ~/.mutt and you can place muttrc in there (note there is no leading . on the filename). or, use ~/.muttrc (and ~/.mutt/). Now, I know whereof you speak, so I added the following

Re: Manipulating file content

2000-07-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:37:33PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi list, this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? seems to me, us perl folk are the culmination of the

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am facing a rather strange problem. I am unable to echo the character M on my bash prompt. I am able to get M by perl -e 'print chr(77);' I am even able to put it in an

DBD::mysql vs DBI-data_sources('mysql')

2000-07-12 Thread Will Trillich
i'm not the first to notice this (as i peruse older posts on geocrawler.com) but i've not seen any definitive answers-- until i recently did 'apt-get upgrade', this worked: #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; my @src = DBI-data_sources( 'mysql' ); now, it returns nothing. blank

pam vs /etc/environment

2000-07-14 Thread Will Trillich
I've seen these in my system logs (and via logcheck) a lot, and didn't know where to start looking: Jul 14 14:13:17 server login[13066]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env Jul 14 14:13:17 server PAM_unix[13066]: (login) session opened for user will by

exim/procmail mutt: some mboxes read as 'new', others don't

2000-07-24 Thread Will Trillich
PROTECTED] !rdt :0: * ^(Sender|From):.*@(pinncomp|speedex) trillich :0: * ^(Sender|From):.*(drw99@|tharp@|@.*serensoft) serensoft mutt correctly knows when 'inbox', 'debian/user' and 'serensoft' contain new mail, but not 'webmaster*', 'root

tcsh savedirs... saves only one

2000-08-01 Thread Will Trillich
i lose my directory stack on every logout. % set savedirs % cd /var/www % pushd /etc % pushd ~/public_html % ^D (logout) now when i log back in, i'm correctly put into the directory that i'd most recently been in but there are none others on the stack:

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Will Trillich
or at www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0 (very up-to-date). On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:57:15AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Actually, we could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. Jason Quigley wrote: Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're already

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: Interesting! How does the mailing list get onto USENET? Is there a cross-posting utility running? I would much prefer to use a news group than downloading all these messages. Cheers, Jason. i imagine that someone at deja

apt-get update for frozen -- 404 not found

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
short version: i'm using frozen, and have been updating via apt-get update -- now, boom! 404 not found, for every line in /etc/apt/sources.list . . . so i can't go forward to apt-get upgrade... long version: i need a bit-o-help with apt-get and

Re: apt-get update for frozen -- 404 not found

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 08:41:49AM +0200, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: short version: i'm using frozen, and have been updating via apt-get update -- now, boom! 404 not found, for every line in /etc/apt/sources.list . . . so i

mutt -- in color

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
i've heard rumblings that mutt can be configured (via ~/.muttrc?) to hilite display items using color. anybody have a quickie sample to share, that does this kind of thing?

Re: SOLVED: Re: VI and .html files?

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:21:13AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: At 09:01 2000/08/09 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: I've been using VI for 8 years now, but this is the first time I've ever seen it have this little problem. I try and VI a .html file, and I get

Re: common questions -- System.map

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:41:41AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:39:19PM +, Joseph de los Santos wrote: 3. I keep getting this error kernel:klogd 1.3-3#3- log source=/proc/kmsg started kernel: cannot find map file

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:42:24PM -0600, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: Here's my color section of my .muttrc: [snip] hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome and

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Will Trillich wrote: hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your .muttrc settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome and bold

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
/lurk mode i'm still hoping to find the king james version of the exim manual (the original greek is beyond me)... this flashed by a few days ago, and i thought i'd be able to apply it to my own situation; alas... On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:09:41AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: There's more than

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: I see you are using a mac and telneting into a linux machine? Your telnet has vt220 emulation? You are setting the environmental on the remote? right. macs, being

Re: We really need a FAQ!

2000-08-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:51:45PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Here's my first cut of questions that ought to be in a debian-users FAQ: if only someone had this started up when i was getting up to speed, i'd be four months ahead of where i am now-- great idea! i'd also love to see a sub-faq?

Re: We really need a FAQ!

2000-08-23 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:16:08PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:51:45PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Here's my first cut of questions that ought to be in a debian-users FAQ: if only someone had

unapproved query -- dns/named8 after power-failure

2000-08-23 Thread Will Trillich
short version: of all TM, which Fing one should i go R? long version: lost power for about two hours last night, and now i'm getting some odd 'named' log entries... even after finding man named.conf i'm still in the dark (metaphorically, tho the power is back on :)... [i've got debian

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-23 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:35:20PM -0600, montefin wrote: [snip] When every other site worth a damn has a basic, simple, clear-up-the-obvious, Search Engine, http://www.debian.org/search complains it has not found a Search Engine worthy of itself. [snip] Put an even so-so Search Engine at

Re: unapproved query -- dns/named8 after power-failure

2000-08-23 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: Will Trillich wrote: [i've got debian 2.2/potato running as a router/ipmasq/firewall box for my home intranet, with named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW] unapproved query from [207.63.39.40].1671 for serensoft.com unapproved

reasonable documentation -- found some!

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
i was looking for a way to get procmail to lowercase all its domain names so that the ~/.procmailrc recipe :0: * ^(To|Envelope-to):[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.* webmaster-$MATCH doesn't get zealous and create different instances of, say: webmaster-DONTUTHINK.COM

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:26:05AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:51:54PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: :What are the methods for converting multiple pages html document to other :formats like single page html doc, ps, pdf, latex, anything else? :That is, if I have 188

modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-18

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
from some nosing around, i gather that net-pf-18 is related to 'ash' which apt-cache show ash says can be used as a replacement for bash... but why'd it suddenly show up in my logs? Aug 24 12:51:27 server modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-18 Aug 24 12:51:58 server last

domain survey data -- cool stats

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
very interesting... domain survey -- how big is the net, really? http://www.isc.org/ds/

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:40:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: No, I mean exactly what an MUA says it is. Mutt is an MUA but, to me, it is not a mail client. A mail client is able to transfer and manipulate the required data without need of other programs. A constant example I give, which

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:18:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Well, gee, if you'd open your eyes and READ.. I DID GIVE THE NAME! In fact, I gave it well before describing where it was but since people couldn't find it from the NAME I thought maybe giving the exact location of it in the

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: So there is another part of the process. You know what that is? Admitting there is a problem. Something that you, Brian, and loads others cannot admit. That there is a problem in the current spectrum of how mail is

cleaning /usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
until i have the budget, i'm looking to free up some space from redundant doc files (then i'll be able to gripe about not being able to find any docs, of course)... somewhere in the frozen potato era, debian went from using /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. there are many symlinks from one to the

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:34:10AM +, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Aug-2000 Dale L . Morris wrote: I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using for a procmail receipe: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^-why the underscore? I would use * ^To:

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:05:22PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using for a procmail receipe: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user scan the emails you want to group -- look at ALL the headers. list managers usually add their own

Re: issue.net issue

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
I've been snooping around /etc looking for the place that issue.net and issue are assigned. So far no luck, is there any documentation available from Debian that would run a newbie type thru most of that 'good to know information' about how the system is put together? good news: it's out

Re: Procmail

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:07PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: I'm setting up procmail on my system. I've done this in the past successfully using Redhat 6.2 and sendmail, but I have a couple of questions about Debian and exim. 1. Do I need a .forward file? Or is .procmailrc enough? imagine

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:43:05PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:26:05AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:51:54PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: :What are the methods for converting multiple pages html document to other :formats like

Re: Procmail

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:18:16AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: Doesn't exim do it server wide, and procmail only to one user? well, the distinction certainly has lots more to it than that, but from what i've seen, that's a generally-true statement.

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:14:52AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: They should make a procmail howto. they do. you just gotta find it! At 03:24 AM 8/25/00 -0500, you wrote: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ that's the best one i've seen so far.

Re: EXIM / FETCHMAIL Question

2000-08-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:50:15AM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: In previous flavors of Linux and Freebsd, I had sendmail running. I would do a fetchmail to get my email from my ISP, and I had a .forward file that would send my mail to procmail for sorting/filtering. I now have Debian

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 07:10:57PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: A difficult thing to ask for in today's GUI world. I am looking for a simple light weight console app (non GUI) word processor, something like the good old WordStar (and such relics of yesteryears). Should be able to do formatting

Re: Seeking advice on dbms and programming languages.

2000-08-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:37:39PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Greetings, I currently work for a company doing database development with MS SQL Server and VisualBasic. I'd like to branch out a little bit and learn some linux based solutions. Is MySQL C++ a good combination for doing some

Re: q ad refusing smtp-conns with sendmail

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:19:44PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: I´m looking for a solution which will let me refuse smtp-connections from some hosts with specific 5xx-error-messages. Any hint in the right direction? (Other than writing

Re: Apache mod_rewrite

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:18:14PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: I need to do the following in order to access stats for each based virtual host when typing url www.virtualhost1.com/stats or www.virtualhost99.com/stats server page located under /var/reports/virtualhost1 or

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: Okay, This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null Yes I was root. So how do I recreate /dev/null? hmm. i'm a

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:12:00PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: Thanks for the reply, I actually _had_ replaced my /dev/null and my system was not too happy - procmail kept reporting errors on all my terminals. Also I couldn't send email to myself on my local account. I guess exim or

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its own background daemon, to yank your email from various

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:46:54AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: wow, what a great explanation! (after reading the initial posting, i wondered what does /dev/null do? (which was the question i was going to post.) then i read man null, and thought, okay, that's what 'null' does. then i

Re: Apache

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:09:54PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf change these to your liking: MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 5 and do /etc/init.d/apache restart see www.apache.org for full docs on what these are, apache has excellent

Re: Exim and filtering

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:20:13AM -0500, Daniel E Baumann wrote: I read through the whole filtering documentation (filter.txt.gz file). So I set up my .forward file as such: # Exim filter [snip] # Debian Lists if $header_to: contains lists.debian.org or $header_cc: contains

parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
okay, i did this a while back, but haven't been able to track down the docs that showed me how to do it. after six hours, i'm giving up and asking y'all'uns... you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you

Re: BIND setup

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:11:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hello When starting bind, I get the following entries syslog'd: Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa \ (file /etc/bind/homelan.ch.rev): No default TTL set using SOA \ minimum instead [...]

Re: no documentation for php3-magick?

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:25:08PM +0200, trapstep wrote: hi list, i installed php3-magick Version: 3:3.0.16-4 from woody. it installed the magick.so but no other file, no documentation at all. then i searched the web, but found nothing but links to this package. isn't there any

Re: no documentation for php3-magick?

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
# apt-get install php3-magick # dpkg -L php3-magick /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/php3-magick /usr/lib /usr/lib/php3 /usr/lib/php3/apache /usr/lib/php3/apache/magick.so browsing to localhost/doc/php3-magick shows several documents, which may or may not help...

Re: System time

2000-09-04 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:31:04PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually notice that my

Re: BIND setup

2000-09-04 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:52:08PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: Asked and answered a million times on the bind-isc mailing lists. It's also in the BIND FAQ: http://www.nominium.com/resources/bind-faq.html#nottl Put a $TTL value above your SOA record. 'can't find server www.nominium.com' ...

Re: system time

2000-09-04 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:35:34PM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I should add in that the change is usually by 5 hours, which is my timezone's offset from GMT, so I've been wondering if maybe I accidentally picked the wrong setting concerning the hardware

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:01:23PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: This list is *EXTREMELY* helpful for any problem a debian user may have. I personally have never *not* gotten a solution to my problems posted here, and the solution is usually posted just a few minutes/hours after I send my help

Re: help with compiling qt examples?

2000-09-06 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:34:10PM -0400, Rob Tandy wrote: Hello all, I recently apt-got libqt2, libqt2-dev, qt2-doc... i think proper usage is i recently 'apt-get'ted... or if you're from georgia, i done apt-git... :)

Re: david the gnome - with yet another non-Debian question?

2000-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:27:32PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: ... this has nothing to do with Debian! Why aren't all these non-Debian specific questions filling my mailbox sent to where they ought to be sent? Why is debian-user full of Netscape bookmarks questions, and generic

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: I resent the implication that we sysadmins ever think at all! And that even if we did we had brains with which to accomplish the task. Jeff ( A sysadmin) :) Incidentally the best reason I can think of for using Debian over RedHat

hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
i'm trying to figure out where i should put which components of my debian node name and my dns zone name... zone: dontUthink.com cpu: server if i have 'server' alone in /etc/hostname there seem to be places that don't know i'm in the dontUthink.com zone. if i have the whole

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:40:28PM +, Pollywog wrote: On 10-Sep-2000 I. Tura wrote: and Vote often! I second that :) I say that this is not fair... Or I'm innocent and everybody votes dozens of times in polls? you may be innocent, but the term you're probably

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