cleaning mailboxes

Is there an easy way to clean out, say, all messages older than a month from an mbox style mailbox file? I am thinking of evebntually having this run via cron once in a while to clean out my lug mailing lists etc. Thanks -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RPM Update woes

X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \ -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RPM Update woes

I did upgrade libdb to db3-3.1.17-4.6x and did an rpm --rebuild but I still get: what about rpm --rebuilddb (not just rebuild?) -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Mythical Quiet PC

And I could hide it under the house, although here in the Waitakeres people would suspect I'm growing dope in it. you could probably do that at the same time, it'll be warm in that fridge and there will be air circulating. A grow light and you're laughing.

Re: Apache Log

at iis servers, but stll take up valuable bandwidth on any server. -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mandrake 8.1

according to various news sites 8.1 is out and available for download. does anyone know of a local (nz) mirror that has 8.1 (final, not beta or rc) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freesco

) and it should work (maybe you have to restart the firewall, not sure) easy huh? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HEADS UP Re: laptops

try looking at their website? http://www.leo.co.nz Got more specs some prices? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: internal PCI 56k real modem

. Does anyone have nay sources for these beasts? Otherwise it's either ISA (not very future-proof) or external (clunky). Volker -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Carl from IBM

Fax 364 -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

answerphone software?

user? Random thoughts are an email with the voice file as an attachment, or a web page where you can click on the message and have it stream to your realplayer??? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Carl from IBM

) On Wednesday 10 October 2001 01:32, Nick Rout wrote: As one of the organisers (am I allowed to call myself that in our non-hierarchical, anarchic collective of open source devotees?) my 2 cents worth says that IBM plus the email thing is too long, and that we shopuld postpone the email presentation

Merry Xmas Cooker Mandrake

On Xmas eve Mandrake released iso sets (2 disks) of its Cooker release. Cooker is the development version of Mandrake, with quite up to date packages. There is something on it here: http://www.distrowatch.com. I have downloaded and installed the cd's. If anyone wants a copy please let me know.

Quick perl question

.) Thanks for all tips. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: now a sed query

newfile But tr did, thanks again! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A bit of a laugh

ever wanted to know the geek classifications? All is revealed here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/guru.html -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ntp as server

Ok so I can setup the ntp package to get/set the time on my server via ntp servers on the net. I could also get all my windows and linux clents to get/set their own time from the internet. However I would prefer to get the server to sync with the internet and then the other clients on my lan get

Re: Installing source RPMs

if you search for Maximum RPM in google (I bookmark almost nothing since google, especially as browsers are now putting in direct links to google - konqueror and opera anyway :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mature comments appreciated

software, has bugs and vulnerabilities too. If you are still running an year old version of apache then theres probably someone out there who can exploit you. In short MS have fixed this vulnerablity, the user/admin hasn't fixed their machine. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mature comments appreciated

be copyrighted and are used with permission. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB + AMD Athlon

:-) welcome aboard. pleased to make your acquaintance so to speak. you may find what you need here, under the howtos http://nzadsl.co.nz/ or by subscibing to this list: http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB + AMD Athlon

The other great place for rpms is www.rpmfind.net where i found this page: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/speedtouch-1.0-1mdk.i586.html It may be the rpm you are missing. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorcerers magic

://www.distrowatch.com/sorcerer.php. There are a few others about if you search on google. Also there is a similar distro called gentoo at http://www.gentoo.org -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CLUG Meeting 28th February-Topic and speaker-update

smoothwall called ipcop (http://www.ipcop.org). At least they are polite and answer questions! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CLUG Meeting 28th February-Topic and speaker-update

firewalls/broadband/nat/vpn thru firewalls?? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nescape/Mozilla on SuSE7.3

sounds like localhost is not in /etc/hosts. try typing 127.0.0.1 in the browser address bar. then check /etc/hosts for a localhost entry -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MAC Hardware (LC575) Linux

-- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next CLUG meeting

We may or may not need the `net' as the next meeting is `add lib' all the more reason to have it! i've come to the same conclusion as sun - the network is the computer - they are no fun without the net! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unpacking compressed files

IMHO a good desktop should have every package suffix associated with the right unpacking utility - or better still, a gui front-end to the right unpacking util. right, like midnight commander! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installfest?

. another machine to write cdroms. 4. internet connection for trouble shooting, getting updates, testing etc (plus firewall of course) 5. some prewritten boot disks for ftp installs. 6. lotsa bench space. 7. the bods to run it -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Postfix

with sendmail.. it uses the sendmail -t command etc... I have now changed over to postfix how do i get this script to work with formmail.cgi.. Many Thanks, Johnno -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3

Re: Meeting

The meeting for 28th Feb? What is the venue? and time? Lanktree Davies see here, theres a map too! http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

it via some decompression utility?? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rout.co.nz

TV cards/capture cards linux nvidia

-bin/dse.storefront/3c7e93a607901b44273fc0a87f990722/Product/View/XH6594 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

I thought this was the sort of c**p linux users hated

ATTENTION: This is a Linux Site Judging from your browser id, you have the wrong site. This site is about Linux only. If you are really sure that you want to see the site anyway, turn off Javascript. From http://www.tuxovision.de/index2.html -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25

Re: Linux Laptops? Empty Laptops?

the contact page or if you really want to spend up, there are these beautiful sparc station notebooks. http://www.leo.co.nz/notebook/777s_enotestation.htm -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [nzlug] whats the command....

Thanks to all thta replied, just had the wrong options for netstat. the variety of answers did confirm that old adage about there being many ways to do the same thing in *nix -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http

Re: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

-private-groups.html -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Hebrew and Russian fonts in Linux

Re right to left, I found by coincidence something on Abi word that suggests dyslexic ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h right to left languages are now supported: http://66.69.182.59:8080/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1630 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64

Re: mandrake 8.2 final

it is availdable now... from ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i 586/ which i happen to be downloading it now :))) Johnno Johnno, those appear to be Release candidate 1 cd's? ie some form of advanced beta? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CLUG social chin wag-Tonight 25th March 2002-Yes its still on :-)

prefer :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Invoicing program (sql-ledger)?

to try? http://www.sql-ledger.org cheers, Nick Elder -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Error msg - file size limit exceeded

, with the terminal being the only app running. I can su to root if kde is not running Any ideas how to fix the problem please? Barry -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CLUG 29th April Agenda

running? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: readable maillog file

Does anyone know of a tool which parses the maillog file (which I presume to be generated by sendmail) and produces a more readable output? have never used any of these, but heres a whole list of log parsers http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administration/Log_Analyzers.html -- Nick Rout

Re: readable maillog file

will tell you how. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

parsing

I have a string like postfix/smtpd[25532]: I want to cut it off at the [ so I end up with postfix/smtpd how do i do it? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing kde3.0 -- I need help :(

the group, it will install them all. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Office on Linux... and it is not SUN

This looks very good. However it worries me that this sort of thing may slow development of such good products as openoffice/kde ofice etc -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Installing kde3.0 -- I need help :(

imho rpm -Uvh * won't work for two reasons:- well actually it DOES on mandrake because I have done it so there *blows loud raspberry* -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing kde3.0 -- I need help :(

which I installed over the weekend is running kde3 quite nicely, and kde2 never touched it. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing kde3.0 -- I need help :(

ohhh never seen that before - looks exciting! Also, just FYI, I find that http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2 is often better than RPM find for RPM's/deps. Regards, Jason

Re: default umask settings

HOWEVER think carefully about running or even testing commands as root. It's just a Bad Idea. If you've been on this list for a while you will know that Barry runs _everything_ as root LOL. He also organises great suppers ;-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail Readers for X

is mulberry, it costs, but it is very very good. http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Mail Readers for X

I have done the same, it is very cool however it doesnt handle the contacts folder correctly. I am connecting to the exchange server as an IMAP4 server. yes, well it won't handle contacts or calendaring at all IMHO. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ADSL modem and IPCOP

to change to a new phone number to use their service? If so, it may not be an option for Nick E's business. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: imap or pop

inbox, but don't forget to get the pop client to leave messages on the server, or they will disappear from imap clients! I don't think cyrus will do pop as well as imap, but once you've got into imap you will want to ditch pop anyway! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Displaying part of an X desktop

No, not one window. An area of the X desktop that could include parts of several windows. are we allowed to know why? (understanding the problem helps to find the solution) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http

Re: Thanks

, Robert -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

how to stuff up your day

and reverse it). Luckily too I didn't panic and log out, as I may not have been able to get back in! Morals 1. never never ever do anything as root except as absolutely necessary 2. don't panic (The latter is probably (c) Douglas Adams) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Domainz

incorporated societies, incorporated trust boards under the charitable trusts act, the crown, the public trust, bodies corporate created by royal chater (ever heard of the hudsonbay company?), but they aren't that common. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to stuff up your day

What's wrong with the rescue system on your distro install CD? I.e. insert CD, boot, instead of install select rescue. Come to think of it, your floppy thing might not be as bloated. Debian had a little bootable CD a while back. In my case there was no cd drive -- Nick Rout [EMAIL

Re: private address 169.254.x.x (was: Many thanks)

192.168.0.0/16 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

recursively change directory modes but not files inside

I have a directory tree in which I need to change the permissions on all the directories, but not the files iside, how do I do this quickly easily please! Thanks -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: virus scanners for sendmail based mailserver

). It does have a list of scanners though. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: [nzlug] recursively change directory modes but not files inside

Thanks to those who responded so quickly. I never did get my head around the -exec {} business, but now I have thanks muchly again -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet

. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

I love journalled file systems

just had a power outage in the central city . quite a large area - victoria street, armagh st, manchester st, hereford st, heaven knows where else. all computers running fine though, esp the linux servers with ext3 drives :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch

Re: Some Help with the mail side of things

their shell to /bin/nologin or something similar. as for ftp, you can set this up so only certain users can login. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: RH 7.3

) ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz/RedHat/redhat-7.3/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: RH 7.3

download the two installation ISO images. If you need the ISO image for the documentation CD-ROM, it is available in the directory ftp:// ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/doc/. Therefore there seems to be three binary cd's, pls source, plus doc. Excellent! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re:distros, was RH 7.3

their good and bad points, NO DISTRO WARS PLEASE -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Distros / kernel support

While we're on the subject of distributions: which distro's use kernels that are close to the stock-standard (linux-xx.tar.gz) kernel? I know Redhat does bad things to theirs... I believe Mandrake does plenty to theirs. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275

Re: licentiousness

. The ms eula used to say if you don't want our os return it for a refund, there is a great story on the net about how one guy did get his dosh back. They have changed the eula since then. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http

Re: cd writers

pretty much any atapi (ide) drive will work. As should any scsi that has a supported scsi controller to attach to. If you want to get into more exotic stuff like usb or firewire then it would pay to ask questions about specific models and see if other people have them working. On Sun,

Re: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

If you look on the net you will see that a lot of people are having success with home brewed dirrectional antannas and 802.11. The antennas are generally made out of a pringles chip can (I kid you not). I don't have any url's at present but the usual google process will find some. -- Nick Rout

Re: Dial-up and large files...

(and was physically possible). Given that paradise and other nz sites house the major distros now, all is sweet :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

of them in (I have a laptop for one end) and two cans of Pringles would pay for him to have a 56k connection, or his own jetstart connection, for quite a while LOL. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275, Christchurch, NZ ph +64-3-3798966 fax +64-3-3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

Heheh, and you can have some fun doing it! That was the main motivation LOL why? because I can -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

have seen stuff about this on the net too. apparently it works fine. again the cost of the two asl modems is a little steep :-( telecom /orion only rarely come up our road, so it'd take them a while to realise we had hijacked their poles :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275

Re: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

The person who installed the cable has left a very long coil of blue cable under the desk by these sockets, saying that you have to have a minimum of 15m cable between the socket and the patch panel. charging you by the metre was he? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solicitor, PO Box 25-275

test

sorry about that, new email system to check

Re: Name resolution and DHCP

(or is it?) the entry for localhost is still there, what can I do? Mark There are some dns servers that can be updated by dhcp. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slow dialup connection

to report the negotiated connection speed into your logfile (usually /var/log/messages) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: licq

. for a discussion of many clients, see this on gentoo forums. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=927 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Almost converted...

Pleased that the group was of service. I hope you'll attend some meetings :-) Keep an eye on the list for notification. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stopping spam

detection, which is probably more important, but also seems to be more difficult. I know a couple of people were looking into this - Guy Matthew, any updates?? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping spam

and gets sorted into various bxes, one for each mailing list. When I get spamassassin working it will also be called from procmail. Hope that answers the question :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping spam

) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PS2 (Was: Almost converted...)

Could you please bring it to the next meeting? It would be interesting to check out. Yuri U I think Vik lives in Auckland? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meeting Wednesday 26th June-Hall

I would do mc, but i'm sure there are people who know more about it than me. :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Networking Gurus X11 Forwarding

for the machines on network 2 to receive the graphics etc from X apps off machines on network 1. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Networking Gurus X11 Forwarding

(like the nokia m1122 etc) only see their own traffic on the LAN side of the connection. So, you are not bridging these networks, so forget my earlier answer :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stopping Spam - update

rejected before they even reach the razor-check stage as coming from open relays etc, if I took out the osirusoft checks the incoming spam for razor to deal with would increase dramatically I'm sure. Anti-virus next, I'm 90% there. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which user is a process running as?

write a script to run ps aux|grep processname every few seconds and append the result to a file. Any more elegant ideas? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stopping Spam - update

here you going to post here how you did it?? I use RBL's for my spam side of things.. I run 4 RBL lists and it works a treat.. are you running sendmail or postfix??? Johnno - Original Message - From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: Stopping Spam - update

Postfix is very good and easy to understand... I have my onw doing all sorts of tricks... agreed! what ani-viurs program are u using??? pandasoftware?? antivir from www.hbedv.com Johnno - Original Message - From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: which user is a process running as?

) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which user is a process running as?

You do realise how sad that sounds, don't you? yeah I did realise, but only after I pushed send -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux vendors to standardise on one distribution

) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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