Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:25:19PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote:
>  I know this problem :-) I suppose this is KDE3.
>  The second time, I was fed up with this dependency problem, and each time 
> I use dselect, I make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status to make a rollback 
> if I forget to type Ctrl-X when dselect suggests to get rid of half of 
> the system (dselect is not very good for a mix of woody, sarge and 
> sid...)
> 
> cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /mnt/bak/sys/status.`date +%F-%X`

Wow! Sure looks like a lot of work to manage dependencies. Have you
tried aptitude? I have been using it for about a year. The curses-based
frontend is quite user friendly, and you can actually preview the
changes before they go into effect.

-Andy


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Re: moving mail to imap

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote:
> 
> It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which
> is quite hard to istall and to configure.

I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an
admin.  One of the bigger differences between running Cyrus and other
servers is that Cyrus authentication doesn't require a user to have a
shell account on the server.

My biggest hurdle was understanding how to configure the authentication
to the server.  Other than that, installation was a breeze. I use
squirrelmail for webmail, and a plugin is available that lets users
change their passwords, which is really handy.

> In most cases Courier is enough and scales well (I know someone running
> ~8000 Users with Courier).

I have heard a lot of good things about Courier.

> Cyrus stores it's mails in a cryptic database format whereas Courier uses
> an enhanced version of Qmail's Maildir concept.

This is true, but not necessarily evil. I moved my email folders from
one machine to another, and the instructions were simple.

Then again, there is only one user on my setup.

-Andy


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tightvnc java security

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out a way to securely connect to the X server on
my machine (the host machine) using a web browser.

Tightvnc with java is very promising since I don't need any special
software as the applet downloads from the host machine upon access
through the browser.

I don't know much about how java works, and i am trying to determine if
the tightvnc applet is using a secure connection when it connects to
port 59xx on the host. On the host machine I run apache-ssl only, so
this ensures that all communication between the host machine and the web
browser is reasonably secure as long as the https port is being used.

What are the security implications in this arrangement?

Thanks,
Andy


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digital voice recorders for Linux

[Andy Saxena]

Hello,

I would appreciate a recommendation for a digital voice recorder that
works with Linux, along with a recommendation for the software.

Thank you,
Andy


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trimming ~/.maillog

[Andy Saxena]

Hello,

I use ~/.maillog to log the actions of procmail verbosely. However the
file keeps growing by the day. Is there any way to trim the file size
and keep it under 100 Mb?

Thanks,
Andy


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Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

[Andy Saxena]

--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:26:50PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
>   I presently have 2 unknowns I am trying to resolve.  I have
> installed USB support and the USB mass-storage driver on a Debian system
> using the 2.4.19 kernel.  The USB stuff installs with no complaint at all.
> 
> 
[snip]

>   My hunch is that the USB is okay but it won't talk to this
> drive.  I just want to be sure I have tried everything before I
> take it back.  I could sure use the storage.
> 

I have a Buslink 40GB USB external hard drive that works great with
Linux - no complaints at all! However, I had to compile its driver to
make it work. Perhaps you need a driver too with your Maxtor USB.

I run Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.19.

-Andy


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Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500):
> > I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly.  If any email in
> > the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be purged from
> > the mailbox.  I am thinking using cron + procmail to do the job, but I
> > don't know how.  Anyone one?
> Check out the package "archivemail" -- I use this with the debian-users
> list on a daily basis, and other lists on a monthly basis, and it works
> perfectly.

I have tried using archivemail but the --delete option doesn't work for
me. I have posted about this earlier. 

Have you gotten the --delete option to work?

-Andy


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NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote:
> 
> I got it to work
> 
> $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup
> 

Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I didn't realize
that it is created backup files as stated in the original posting.

-Andy


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SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:53:18AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote:
> I am unable to get the "--delete" option of archivemail to work.
> 
> $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup
> archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to 
>'inbox.backup_archive' ...
> set tempfile directory to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> guessing mailbox is of type: imap
> imap filter: '(BEFORE 07-Oct-2002 UNFLAGGED)'
> connected to server 192.168.1.101
> logged in to server as username
> selected imap folder inbox.backup
> 0 messages found matching filter
> cleaning up ...
> 
> As you can see it archives to "inbox.backup_archive". I haven't seen any
> bug reports on this. Has anybody gotten this option to work?
> 
> -Andy

I got it to work

$ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup

-Andy


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Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:31:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:33, Andy Saxena wrote:
> > Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting
> > Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software?
> > 
> 
> I run vmware all the time (with Windows2000). I have run VPN software (I
> don't remember the brand) to connect to a client and it worked just
> fine.
> 
> Windows2000 running in vmware does not know it is running in a Linux
> context. It just runs as a separate machine (with separate IP address,
> etc.)
> 
> Randy
> 
> 

Thanks, Randy.

I have a dual-boot machine with Win2K and Debian Sid. Is it possible to
run my existing Win2K using Debian Sid as the host? I have no experience
in this regard and VMWare is an expensive piece of software :-}.

-Andy


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VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

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Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting
Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software?

-Andy


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Re: Better calendar tool?

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:38:06PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> What do people use out there for a personal calendar tool?
> 
> I've been using gnomecal, from gnome-pim, but it's too buggy: I've
> installed the latest version from unstable and still it can't do the
> most trivial things, such as displaying meetings that start at on the
> half-hour properly.  This bug has been reported in the BTS for ~3
> months.
> 
> So surely there are other graphical calendar managers out there: what do
> others use?  I'd prefer something that comes all in one piece and does
> alarms, etc. without having to hook up bits and pieces (i.e., hooking an
> Emacs calendar tool to xmessage, etc.)  I can do it, and I have even
> done it in the past, but I'm looking for something more straightforward
> right now.
> 

Webcal is a product that does all of the following, but you will have to
setup a web server for it. I run it on Apache with SSL, and I can access
my calendar from anywhere. It will also send you email reminders! There
is no Debian package for this product. The feature list is mind
boggling!

Also, there seem to be quite a few products named "webcal" - the one I
am talking about can be found at http://www.math.utexas.edu/webcalendar
.

Let me know if you need help with setup.

-Andy


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Re: Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:02PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote:
> Andy Saxena wrote:
> 
> >Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive
> >or similar piece of hardware?
> >
> >It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the
> >usual USB kernel modules.
> >
> >-Andy
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> You might want to take a look at this page.  If you look aat the output 
> of usbview or look around in the /proc/bus/usb directory you might find 
> out if you are using a PL-2307 (Prolific chip).  If so then this page 
> might help you.
> 

I have seen that page :-}. Hence my comment above about needing a
driver.

-Andy


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Re: Printing fonts from browser

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:41:38PM -0400, David Sanders wrote:
> I successfully installed truetype fonts for X.  They appear on the
> screen fine and I can print them via ghostscript.  But when I print a
> web page containing the fonts from Mozilla/Galeon, generic fonts are
> substituted.  Surely it must be possible.  How do I enable it?

IIRC there is an option to print a PostScript file from Mozilla. When
you print to PS, do you see the fonts being substitued?

-Andy


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Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

[Andy Saxena]

Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive
or similar piece of hardware?

It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the
usual USB kernel modules.

-Andy


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archivemail will not delete mail

[Andy Saxena]

I am unable to get the "--delete" option of archivemail to work.

$ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup
archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to 
'inbox.backup_archive' ...
set tempfile directory to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
guessing mailbox is of type: imap
imap filter: '(BEFORE 07-Oct-2002 UNFLAGGED)'
connected to server 192.168.1.101
logged in to server as username
selected imap folder inbox.backup
0 messages found matching filter
cleaning up ...

As you can see it archives to "inbox.backup_archive". I haven't seen any
bug reports on this. Has anybody gotten this option to work?

-Andy


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bash login file [was Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?]

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
> 
> I found that commands in my .bashrc file got executed every time I opened a 
> new konsole, but I have commands I only want to run once when I first log in. 
> It seems there are 2 ways to make commands that only run when you first log 
> in, but not every time you open a bash shell:

Are you sure? I did a simple test by putting the following line at the
top of my ~/.bashrc file:
echo You are using bashrc

I did not see the echo on starting a new konsole, but only when i logged
in on a virtual console. Also if you enter "bash" at the commandline,
you will see the echo. 

> 
> 1) put them in your ~/.bash_login file 

Does this work? Using the same echo test as above I saw no success.

-Andy


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Kapital on Sid (unstable) with KDE 3.0

[Andy Saxena]

Has anybody had any luck running Kapital on KDE3?

-Andy


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Re: Old packages archive

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:08:16AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Thanks for the immediate response, Colin.
> 
> I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package
> they offer is for Woody. I thought they might be in the xlibs-dev
> package. However, I am running the 4.1.0-17 version of xlibs, hence the
> need for the older packages.
> 
> Anyway, xlibs-dev isn't listed in
> http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/pool/x/ . For that matter, I cannot
> locate xlibs either. 
> 
> Could somebody please point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 

I should've been looking at the xfree86 folder.

-Andy


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Re: Old packages archive

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:44:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:36:41AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> > I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that
> > come through Sid.
> > 
> > Could somebody please point me to the URL?
> 
> http://snapshot.debian.net/
> 

Thanks for the immediate response, Colin.

I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package
they offer is for Woody. I thought they might be in the xlibs-dev
package. However, I am running the 4.1.0-17 version of xlibs, hence the
need for the older packages.

Anyway, xlibs-dev isn't listed in
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/pool/x/ . For that matter, I cannot
locate xlibs either. 

Could somebody please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Andy


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Old packages archive

[Andy Saxena]

I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that
come through Sid.

Could somebody please point me to the URL?

Thanks,
Andy


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Re: vncserver: cannot restart on same display

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:36:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
>   how come it is not possible to run vncserver reusing the display
> number? the following should work:
> 
>   vncserver :1
>   vncserver -kill :1
>   vncserver :1
> 
>   the first two work, the third one does not, her's the error mesage
> from vncserver (which is a perl wrapper):
> 

Have you tried connecting to this vncserver when it's running?

> billteam:~> vncserver :2
> ELVIS: cannot bind to 6000 + 2 [Address already in use]
> A VNC server is already running as :2
> billteam:~> 
> 
>   (I added the ELVIS message)

Not quite sure what you mean by the above line.

> 
>   Xvnc complains about existing lock file (even though Xvnc that was
> running on given display is gone). here's the message from Xvnc when I
> manually remove /tmp/.X1-lock:
> 
> billteam:~> Xvnc :1
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running
> 
>   lsof | greo 6001 doesn't show anything. I verified that vnc is not
> running after vncserver -kill
> 
>   the probem seems to exist only for :1, I can kill vnc on :2 and then
> start Xvnc :2 again (but not vncserver).
> 
>   I have seen this problem on two machines (so far).
> 
>   any ideas on what's going on?
> 

Seems like you have X running. 

-Andy


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Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:36:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:15:55AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> > I was under the impression Knoppix fits about 1 or 2 GB of data on to
> > the CD. I didn't find an explicit option to do this in bootcd.
> 
> Yes.  Using a home-brew specialised compressed filesystem requiring
> cloop (compressed loopback) device support written by Paul Russel and
> Klaus Knopper.  
> 
> http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/cloop.README

Perfect! I should've looked around :-}.

Thanks.
Andy


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Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:33:08PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2002 23:15:58 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Let's be honest - if users didn't have to work through the install, a
> > key headache and admitted weakness in Debian would be avoided...
> 
> So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD
> (such as http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn)

I am trying out bootcd. Unfortunately, my current setup is well over 1
GB. Does bootcd do some sort of compression?

I was under the impression Knoppix fits about 1 or 2 GB of data on to
the CD. I didn't find an explicit option to do this in bootcd.

-Andy


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Re: Netscape 7.0

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> [cjwatson@arborlon ~]$ madison kvirc
>  kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 |stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, 
>m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
>  kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 |   testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, 
>m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
>  kvirc | 1:2.1.2.0-1 |  unstable | arm, ia64
>  kvirc | 1:2.1.2.1-1 |  unstable | source, alpha, hppa, i386, m68k, mips, 
>mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Which package has this nifty program?

-Andy


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Proxy settings for apt-proxy

[Andy Saxena]

How do you add proxy server settings to apt-proxy? The man pages don't
seem to indicate a setting.

If one is using apt and not apt-proxy this is possible using, IIRC,
/etc/apt/apt-conf.

-Andy


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Re: Terminal like server for linux

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:30:34PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> You know, as far as I know, only 1 person at a time can access a VNC 
> server, right?
> 
> I am almost certain, that the company I'm talking about has a server, 
> much like Windows Terminal Services, that allows multiple remote users 
> to log in through a web browser to a single server and work as if they 
> were at work.  But I know for a fact that there office is 100% Debian.
> 
> Curtis
> 

So, how hard would it be just ask them? It cannot possibly be a trade
secret. If they are 100% Debian, hopefully some of that Debian spirit
would be permeating the place, and they might even enjoy explaining you
how they did it.

It's an obvious suggestion, but what the heck.

-Andy


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Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:51:44PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> 
> "the heathen", I love it!
> 
> I must say that I've done quite a few demo's with Knoppix when folks
> pop in and ask, "Hey, what are you using there?".  I also get
> questions when I pull my laptop out of my bag, open the lid and start
> typing within a few seconds.
> 
> And, my "magic box" has proven successful in far more situations for
> me than for my MS-toting peers.
> 

Heh! I was visiting some relatives last weekend, and I had a chance to
show off my "ultra portable" OS on a CD. It took a while to explain,
that, yes, the entire OS fits on the CD; that, yes, I can open Word
documents; that, yes, I can write Word documents; that, yes, I could
browse the internet without having to meddle with any settings; that,
yes, I hadn't even touched the installed XP OS.

Okay, so, perhaps, I should've pointed out that Linux runs on a dozen
hardware architectures and a dozen filesystems! Hey, I was just trying
not to be a show-off.

I am not a Linux admin nor do I develop applications; I work with
Windows machines at work, and I get giddy every time I am working on
Debian. The machine on which I ran Knoppix was a 300 MHz laptop with 192
MB of RAM.  It had a fresh installation of XP. Since these folks were
going out for the evening, they wanted to print out a map from Yahoo.
Unfortunately, the spanking new XP didn't have a driver for the HP Photo
1215. I had to reboot into KNOPPIX and rescue the situation. For once,
Debian had beaten Windows hands down.

Windows advocates complain that there's no innovation coming out of
Linux. When they can manage to run their OS on a  CD, I'll believe them
:-}.


> Spreading the Word,
> 

Amen to that.

-Andy


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Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> 
> The package description doesn't mention it, but the version of archivemail
> in SID has IMAP support.
> 

Thanks to all those who suggested archivemail. It is exactly what I was
looking for.

-Andy


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Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:28:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Cyrus doesn't use maildir. It uses something that kinda looks like
> maildir. Regular users can't even read the files in the Cyrus mail
> spool. 

This is precisely the reason why I was asking the question in the first
place. I was hoping for some cyrus utility. Apparently, there is none.

Does anybody know what the mail format for Cyrus is called?

> 
> Worse, running a non-cyrus-aware program on a Cyrus mail spool is a Very
> Bad Idea unless you understand Cyrus administration well enough to know
> how to fix the bullet hole in your foot.

In retrospect, it may have been a bad idea for me to go with Cyrus
instead of Courier. It's just that I don't understand the restrictions
on Courier's setup - it didn't sound too "Free Software" friendly.

-Andy


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Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux
> CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between
> DemoLinux & Knoppix?
> 
> Thank you.
> Andy
> 

To answer my own question Knoppix has more of the latest software. Other
than that I don't know too much at the moment.

-Andy


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Re: how to use NT's shared files?

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> 
> Or if you are GUI minded, take a look at komba or gnomba. Works well to
> mount SMB shares with a couple of mouse clicks. Compared to Windows
> "network neighborhood", the discovery behaviour is much more consistent,
> especially since you can force the scanning of specific subnets or IPs.
> 
> 

Or, linneighborhood. No need for KDE or GNOME.

-Andy


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Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:34:13AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Andy Saxena wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to
> >Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are
> >applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able
> >to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup
> >folder. 
> >
> >Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too
> >much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if
> >somebody could point me the right direction.
> >
> One way to do it would be to use the libmail-imapclient-perl package to 
> write a program that does it.
> 
> The documentation may be a little sparse.  You could end up learning 
> Perl *and* reading an RFC!  :-)

There's always the hard way to solving any problem :-}. Anyway, I know
that it's common for people to run cron jobs on their mbox files to
archive email. I am just surprised that no such tool seems to exist for
IMAP.

-Andy


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Re: Mutt and mailboxes

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:03:05AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Andy Saxena wrote:
> >I am a happy squirrelmail user, but I think the above solution is an
> >elegant solution for a large user base. It's low-maintenance and
> >hassle-free.
> 
> Apparently, there's a squirrelmail plugin that does fetchmail.  Seems to 
> me that *might* fill in the missing piece that mail2web is doing for 
> you: letting the users maintain the retrieval process.

I don't think Squirrelmail allows access to POP mailboxes.

-Andy


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Re: Repartioning NTFS

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:23:17PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I have successfully repartioned a ntfs partition with parted last
> year.
> 
> Just read the documentation and work carefully.  Make sure that your
> data is on a part of the disk which will not be affected.
> 

You are joking, right?

I am sure the authors of parted would love to know about this Easter
egg.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

-Andy


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Re: Mutt and mailboxes

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:33:29PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> I actually do all this, too (except the squirrelmail part -- I just use
> mail2web with the IMAP options for web access). It *is* a beautiful
> setup -- can't recommend it highly enough!
> 

If you have no trouble trusting strangers with your personal email, I
guess this would work. mail2web is a pretty cool idea, though. I wonder
if there's open sourced software that does the same thing.

I am a happy squirrelmail user, but I think the above solution is an
elegant solution for a large user base. It's low-maintenance and
hassle-free.

-Andy


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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:29:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> 
> For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in
> brief:
> Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their
> procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs,
> he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder.
> 

I found the solution! Procmail was generating the "From " envelope
header that cyrdeliver finds inacceptable! It seems if you call procmail
from exim, it runs in an explicit delivery mode (whatever that means)
and adds the "From " header to the incoming email. My solution is really
simple. I used formail to get rid of the "From " header like so:


--~/.procmailrc (begin)-
SHELL="/bin/sh"
DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog"
IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m user.andy"
LOGABSTRACT="all"
VERBOSE="on"

#Remove the "From " header if it exists! Pass on the email to the other
#filters.
:0 fw

| /usr/bin/formail -I 'From ' -b

--~/.procmailrc (end)-


Exim is configured in the following manner:

-/etc/exim/exim.conf (begin)---

##
#  TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION  #
##
#   ORDER DOES NOT MATTER#
# Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.#
##

# This transport is used for local delivery to user mailboxes. 

local_delivery:
  driver = pipe
  command = /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}
  return_path_add = true
  return_output
  prefix = ""
  user = cyrus

# This transport is used for procmail

procmail_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
  return_path_add
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
# check_string = "From "
# escape_string = ">From "
#  suffix = ""
  user = $local_part
  group = mail


##
#  DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION   #
# Specifies how local addresses are handled  #
##
#  ORDER DOES MATTER #
#   A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted.  #
##

# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file

procmail:
  driver = localuser
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
  no_verify

# This director matches local user mailboxes. Since procmail does all
# delivery, it is never used.

localuser:
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery

end

-/etc/exim/exim.conf (end)-

Please keep in mind that the above two illustrations are abridged
versions.

I am surprised that nobody else has faced this problem. It's hard to
imagine that I am the only one wanting to use Cyrus IMAP and sort all
the email into their various folders using procmail. Are there more
elegant solutions out there?

-Andy


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Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:27:24AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to
> Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are
> applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able
> to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup
> folder. 
> 
> Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too
> much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if
> somebody could point me the right direction.
> 

An alternative solution appears to be a new package called imapfilter.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to support regular expressions.

-Andy


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Re: Hotplugging USB, debconf question

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:17:34PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> 
> I'll give this a try...
> 
> 
[great explanation]

> I hope this helps.
> 
> jc
> 

Thanks, that's a very lucid explanation.

-Andy


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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +,  Angles  Puglisi wrote:
> Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
> >Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to
> >my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail).
> >
> I've been using this app for years, always stable, very flexible, easy to
> configure, I ditched "cooking recipes" when I found this:
> 
> getmail, A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox delivery
> http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/
> 
> Run it from a cron job, it does its thing, then you can invoke a script written in
> your favorite language (or shell...), or even customize the Python code directly,
> to do exactly what you want (unless I misunderstood your requirements).
> 

I am afraid there's been some miscommunication, please see my last
response to Keith's posting.

Thanks for taking the time.

-Andy


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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to 
> my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail).
> 
> So your situation is completely different.  I don't see how you could 
> use fetchmail to do what you are wanting to do.
> 
> What happens if you run cyrdeliver manually while logged on as the 
> 'mail' user (assuming your exim is running as that)?  You might have 
> some kind of permissions problem.  fetchmail is running as root for me, 
> so that's might be why it works for me, but not in the context of exim 
> for you.

Looks like there's a great deal of misunderstanding/ miscommunication
about what I am trying to achieve.

For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in
brief:
Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their
procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs,
he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder.

-Andy


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Re: Repartioning NTFS

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:47:36AM -0700, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> 
> What I'm trying to do is setup a duel-boot system that will be running my 
> current OS (Windows XP) and Debian Woody. My problem is that my hard disk 
> is a NTFS file system and the FIPS program they say to use in the install 
> manual doesn't say anything about repartioning anything but FAT file 
> systems. If anyone knows of a free disk partioner that will allow me to 
> make another partition without destroying the files already on my system I 
> would greatly appreciate a responce.
> 
> Thank you,
> MICHAEL
> 

I'd suspect there's no such free software in the Linux world that will
repartition or resize NTFS partitions. If there were, it'd imply an
ability to write to NTFS partitions, which is not available as of this
moment. 

-Andy


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Samba 'security=server' Debian/Windows passwd consistency [was Re: Samba 'security=domain' help]

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:38:36PM -0700, nate wrote:
> 
> if your wanting to authenticate from the domain the easiest way
> is to do security=SERVER and set the password server to the
> PDC of the NT domain. You don't have to do security=domain.
> If you really do want to do security=domain(can you say why?
> I cannot see any advantage to using it). I believe you have to
> join the samba server to the domain(search google on this, its
> not a very straight forward process IMO).
> 
> I have used security=SERVER to authenticate off NT4 PDCs for
> several years and its always worked flawlessly for me.
> 
> nate
> 

At work I have setup a Debian machine which I use for console access and
also as a file server for a few other people. I am in a Windows
environment so I set up Samba to enable shares. Pursuing a more
practical solution, I changed the "security=user" default to the
following global options:

security=server
password server= servername

and then, as a test, changed my Windows network password. I was able to
access my shares on the  Debian machine after that using the new
password. That makes me think that my Samba setup is successful in
passing on the authentication to the domain PDC.

However, I would like to also access my user account on the Debian
machine which has the same login ID as the one I use for the Windows
network. Is it possible to set this up so that the password either gets
updated automatically from the PDC, or, in the very least, it can be
authenticated against the PDC?

I know that when the "security=user" option is used, one can set the
"unix password sync" option. Is there an equivalent for
"security=server"? 

-Andy


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Re: Manually changing IRQ/reconfiguring network?

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:11:46PM -0400, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote:
> I have Debian 3.0 installed on an HP Pavillion N5425 laptop, and after
> considerable modifications it is (mostly) working.
> 

> 1) Reconfiguring network: I have somehow managed to break the network
> configuration, so that I no longer seem to be able to get an IP address. The
> card is there, the card is up, but dhclient eth0 doesn't get me any error
> messages. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this problem, and also not sure
> what caused it. I expect it was something to do with my recompiling the
> kernel; however, when I booted the previous kernel (where the networking
> used to work fine), the same symptoms persist. 

Can you ping localhost or 127.0.0.1?

What does /etc/network/interfaces say?

-Andy


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Re: Outlook 2000 and XP vs uw-imapd

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:05:59AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A client I put a Intranet in for pointed out an odd problem which I can
> duplicate on my own network.
> 
> The default IMAP setup works perfectly for all accounts when they use
> Outlook Express or Squirrelmail.
> 
> But Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP crash.  Simply dies on contact with the
> server.  He's formatted his disk on the assumption that there was a
> problem in the Windows setup but the problem remained.  Tried from another
> workstation and realised that Outlook XP crashes when it is used with an
> IMAP server.
> 

This is a bit late, but:

I run Outlook 2000 with Cyrus as my IMAP server. No problems here. See
if you can get the Mozilla mail client to work with uw-imap.

-Andy


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Re: repairing a ntfs partition

[Andy Saxena]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:01:44PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote:
> Just a word of caution here.
> I had a similar problem with W2k and the repair went OK but as it 
> completed w2k suggested I run "checkdsk /f".  This corrupted my kernel 
> image and made the ntfs partition I had on a logical drive in the 
> extended partition unreadable.
> The blunders I made from  there meant I had to reinstall both OS. That's 
> another story though :)
> 
> Tim

If all that was destroyed on your Linux system was the kernel image, you
could've gotten away without reinstalling Linux. The solution would be
to use some sort of a Linux boot disk, mount the partition with /boot,
copy over the kernel image, setup up the /vmlinuz symlink, chroot the
mounted partition, and run LILO. Of course, if you are using Grub you
can stop after setting up the symlink.

As for Windows... well, that's a whole another issue :-}.

-Andy


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Re: repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk ?

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:58:14PM +1000, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote:
> 
> Is there any way of repairing the ntfs partition using fdisk or another
> tool under linux ??
> 
> Fortunatly I can still mount the partition to rescue the important
> files, but it is still bad. One would think that the rescue disks should
> be able to deal with that kind of problem, after all, that is what they
> are there for.
> 
> Cheers and thanks for listening (and hopefully helping)
> 
> Matt

It's a late reply, but here's a thought:

If you can mount the partition, but not boot from it, it may be that the
corruption is to the boot sector in the Win2K partition. I think the
Win2K bootable CD has a rescue option using the command line. There you
should be able to do FIXBOOT or something similar to repair the damage.

-Andy


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Re: point and click with latex

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote:
> Dear LaTeX users,
> 
> I have configured emacs and xdvi for forward and inverse search:
> C-c C-s willl open xdvi in the place you were in your tex file and 
> reciprocally hold the CRTL key and click in xdvi to put the cursor in 
> the corresponding place within emacs.
> 
> If you are interestred please read my mini howto available at
> 
> http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~oesser/pointandclick.txt
> 
> Have fun!

I am tempted to learn me some emacs! Doing LaTeX in Vim isn't that much
fun.

-Andy


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Re: IMAP/Exim

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:10:07PM -0500, debuser wrote:
> Currently on my system I have the following email setup:
> 
> Has anyone else set up IMAP with Exim/fetchmail? What is the 

I am a recent convert to the IMAP way. My setup consists of Cyrus IMAP +
Exim + fetchmail.

> suggested IMAP daemon? Will I be able to keep my current Sylpheed 
> folder set up and point an IMAP client to those folders with an 
> IMAP daemon installed? I know I'll either have to duplicate my 

Cyrus has it's own mail format. I don't use Sylpheed, but one solution
could be to simply setup the IMAP folders, figure out how to access them
using Sylpheed and simply move the email from the local folders to the
IMAP folder from within Sylpheed itself. Btw, this is a simple trick
used by many to transfer email out from Microsoft Outlook .pst files.

> filters in whatever MUA I use remotely or set up procmail to pre-
> filter but that's OK. If I use Sylpheed on the laptop I should be 
> able to copy the relevant config lines over from the home machine.
> 
> Any help appreciated, I've never set up or used IMAP in the past. 
> I'd hate to trash my mail setup.

If you don't try to trash the default config files that come with Cyrus,
and gain an understanding of the authentication mechanisms involved, you
should be able to setup and running less than an hour. Setting up Cyrus
can be done independently of your existing email system.

-Andy


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Re: Switching between monitors on one video card

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:08:00AM +1000, Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In XF86 (x-windows), is there a way to switch between
> the "Display" sections in XF86config-4 ?
> 
> I want to switch between different monitors (with a switchbox)
> on the one video card, but the monitors have different capabilities.

I think what you want to do here is create two sections of type
"Monitor" and, possibly, of type "Screen".

-Andy


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Re: Headers in this ML

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:11:24PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> 
> It had the above To UNSUBSCRIBE stuff at the bottom.  I assumed that meant
> that it did.
> 
> - Richard.
> 

What did the "From: " header say?

-Andy


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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Andy Saxena wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of
> >exim and cyrus from sid.
> >
> >
> >SHELL="/bin/sh"
> >DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
> >LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog"
> >IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy"
> >LOGABSTRACT="all"
> >VERBOSE="on"
> >
> You might want to try this.  I don't know if it makes any difference or 
> not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that 
> I always use the userid argument, and it works.  It's a different 
> situation, though; I'm using fetchmail for my needs.
> 
> IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy andy"
>   

No dice. It won't work. By the way, the setup works for me when I get
email from the ISP using fetchmail and deliver it to Cyrus using the
same procmail recipe.

You use fetchmail for local delivery from user A to user B? Could you
please share your Exim and fetchmail setup?

Personally, I think the the problem is in trying to use Exim to deliver
directly to Procmail.

-Andy


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Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I tried under a different subject heading that may have been misleading.
So here goes another try:

I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of
exim and cyrus from sid.

Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily able to
deliver local email to myself. However, if I call the procmail
director before localuser, the delivery fails.

Shown below are the relevant entries from exim.conf, .procmailrc and
.maillog files. Could somebody point out the mistake I am making, or
share how they are using exim+procmail to make local delivery of mail.

Thanks.
-Andy

---exim.conf (begin)---
#TRANSPORTS
local_delivery:
  driver = pipe
  command = /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}
  return_path_add = true
  return_output
  prefix = ""
  user = cyrus

procmail_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
  return_path_add
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
# check_string = "From "
# escape_string = ">From "
  suffix = ""

#DIRECTORS

localuser:
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery

procmail:
  driver = localuser
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
  no_verify

--exim.conf (end)--


---~/.procmailrc (end)--

SHELL="/bin/sh"
DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog"
IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy"
LOGABSTRACT="all"
VERBOSE="on"

:0 c:

| $IMAP.backup

:0 fw
| spamc

:0 h
* ^X-Spam-level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null

:0
* ^From.*Cron | ^Subject.*Cron 
| $IMAP.cron

:0
| $IMAP 

:0 w
{EXITCODE=$?
HOST
}

~/.procmailrc (end)


~/.maillog (begin)
procmail: [12792] Mon Sep 30 21:45:19 2002
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Locking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver,-a,andy,-q,-m,user.andy.backup"
procmail: Non-zero exitcode (65) from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy.backup"
procmail: Unlocking ".lock"
procmail: Match on "^From:.*andyml"
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Locking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver,andy"
procmail: Non-zero exitcode (65) from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver andy"
procmail: Unlocking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "spamc"
procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*"
procmail: No match on "^From.*Cron | ^Subject.*Cron"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy"
procmail: Notified comsat: "andy@:/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy"
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 30 21:45:19 2002
 Subject: hello again. This is a test.
  Folder: /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy  562
~/.maillog (end)


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Re: running another OS on plex86 [was Re: bochs v. vmware]

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:27PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:42:29 -0400 Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > So who's the brave soul who's managed to run another OS on plex86? How
> > easy has it been?
> 
> I'll be finding out in the next few days, possibly tonight.
> 

Jamin,

Should I assume that your quest continues? :-}

-Andy


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Re: shrink partition with fdisk

[Andy Saxena]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:46:37PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> 
> I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs partition.  It worked 
> fine, and df is reporting the device size that I expected.  However, 
> fdisk still reports the old size.  How can I shrink the partition in 
> fdisk so it reports the correct size, without harming the contents of 
> the device?  I'm assuming that if I simply delete the partition in 
> fdisk, and then re-create it smaller, my data will be lost.
> 

Did you reboot the machine after altering the partition table? I know
when I have used some of the partitioning software, I had to reboot the
machine. It has something to do with the kernel having to re-read the
partition table.

Anyway, why are you using fdisk? From its man page:

BUGS
   There are several *fdisk programs around.  Each has  its  problems  and
   strengths.   Try  them  in  the  order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk.  (Indeed,
   cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the  par-
   tition  tables  it accepts, and produces high quality partition tables.
   Use it if you can.  fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy  things  -
   usually  it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage
   is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS  par-
   tition  tables.  Avoid it if you can.  sfdisk is for hackers only - the
   user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and  more
   powerful  than  both fdisk and cfdisk.  Moreover, it can be used nonin-
   teractively.)

-Andy


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Re: A Better XTerm?

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:56:49PM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote:
> I'm looking for a better XTerm. I'm using Konsole right now (the one
> that KDE uses by default). 
> 
> The thing that I really want is the ability to horizontally scroll. The


I haven't seen anybody mention this, but you could change font size :-}.

-Andy


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Re: Exim automatic response

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:08:33PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote:
> 
> verify failed for SMTP recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
> 
> What's wrong?
> 

Can you ping mydomain.com from another machine?

$ ping mydomain.com

-Andy


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Re: resize partitions using parted

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:53:03AM -0400, John F Davis wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok?
> 

Used it. Loved it. Broke it :-}. Read the docs and only use it as it
says. Heed the warnings about meddling with the root partition.

> I have a box which was setup with one large root partition and no /boot
> partition.  It was
> just supposed to be a test install, but it has grown into a working box and
> I would
> rather "fix" it to use multiple partitions than re-install it at this
> point.

If it ain't broke, why fix it? I had a system that ran fine for 3 years,
going from potato to woody to sid as I gradually moved towards a desktop
Debian. 

Things looked just so good, I had to meddle with it and "optimize" the
partitions. I broke my system! I had to do a complete reinstall.

> 
> Also, I see there is a tool called resize2fs, but I don't think that is
> what I want to use
> becuase I want to go from 1 partition to multiple partitions.  Furthermore,
> I
> want to insert a /boot partition into the beginning of the disk.

I don't know anything about resize2fs, However, meddling with the root
partition will likely get you into a whole lot of trouble.

By the way, good backups will alleviate any suffering from realizing
your stupidity if you hose your system :-}.

-Andy


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Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:27:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I disagree that this is a security risk. I want to override
> system-provided executables, hence ~/bin is at the start of my $PATH. If
> my user account gets hacked into, all bets are off; it's pointless to
> worry about what somebody might put in ~/bin when they could just do
> whatever it was directly, modify my .bashrc, or whatever!
> 
> I think a more sensible rule is to only put directories in $PATH that
> are at least as trusted as the relevant account. Thus, /usr/bin and so
> on are always fine, ~/bin is only fine for the owning user, and . is
> never a good idea.


My mistake - I mixed up ~/bin with . . Thanks for the correction.

-Andy


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Procmail for local delivery

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of
exim and cyrus from sid.

Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily able to
deliver local email to myself. However, if I call the procmail
director before localuser, the delivery fails.

Shown below are the relevant entries from exim.conf, .procmailrc and
.maillog files. Could somebody point out the mistake I am making, or
share how they are using exim+procmail to make local delivery of mail.

Thanks.
-Andy

---exim.conf (begin)---
#TRANSPORTS
local_delivery:
  driver = pipe
  command = /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}
  return_path_add = true
  return_output
  prefix = ""
  user = cyrus

procmail_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
  return_path_add
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
# check_string = "From "
# escape_string = ">From "
  suffix = ""

#DIRECTORS

localuser:
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery

procmail:
  driver = localuser
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
  no_verify

--exim.conf (end)--


---~/.procmailrc (end)--

SHELL="/bin/sh"
DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog"
IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy"
LOGABSTRACT="all"
VERBOSE="on"

:0 c:

| $IMAP.backup

:0 fw
| spamc

:0 h
* ^X-Spam-level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null

:0
* ^From.*Cron | ^Subject.*Cron 
| $IMAP.cron

:0
| $IMAP 

:0 w
{EXITCODE=$?
HOST
}

~/.procmailrc (end)


~/.maillog (begin)
procmail: [12792] Mon Sep 30 21:45:19 2002
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Locking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver,-a,andy,-q,-m,user.andy.backup"
procmail: Non-zero exitcode (65) from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy.backup"
procmail: Unlocking ".lock"
procmail: Match on "^From:.*andyml"
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Locking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver,andy"
procmail: Non-zero exitcode (65) from "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver andy"
procmail: Unlocking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "spamc"
procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*"
procmail: No match on "^From.*Cron | ^Subject.*Cron"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy"
procmail: Notified comsat: "andy@:/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy"
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 30 21:45:19 2002
 Subject: hello again. This is a test.
  Folder: /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a andy -q -m user.andy  562
~/.maillog (end)


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Re: Logical Volume Manager

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
[a whole bunch of things about LVM, initrd, etc.]

Thanks to you and Shyamal for the information. As always, I learnt
something new. I guess I need more knowledge on LVM and initrd.

-Andy


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Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:22:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> I'm down to the point where I rarely get spam addressed to me, it's
> usually sent to debian-user, and on a bad day I get 5.
> 

Only 5 a day? Is that before or after filtering the email? 

I have hotmail accounts that I download with gotmail. 90% of their
traffic is spam. If it weren't for spamassassin, I'd be dealing with a
ton of spam every day. Using spamassassin, I /dev/null everything with a
score > 10.  I haven't had a false positive in the last 4 months. At
least none that I am aware of :-}.

-Andy


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Re: Odd Path issue

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:18:00PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports:
> > 
> > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> 
> s/~/$HOME/
> 
> Guessing the ~ expansion in $PATH is a problem...

Built-ins are evaluated before $PATH. Test is a built-in.

-Andy


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Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports:
> 
> ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> 

Putting ~/bin first in your $PATH is a security risk. Consider that if
your user account got hacked into, somebody could place a modified top,
ls, less executable in your ~/bin directory. These executables could be
modified to perform tasks extraneous to what the legitimate executables
do, like mailing your personal files to the cracker.

-Andy


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Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:13:42AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> (You do report spam, right?  It's not hard, http://spamcop.net/ makes
> it droolproof)

I parsed through the website. It seems one has to register to get an
account. Then one has to follow up on the spam by choosing the
recepients for the spam report.

It seems to be quite time-consuming if one receives 30-40 spam messages
a day,

-Andy


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Re: Logical Volume Manager

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian 
> kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel has 
> created an initrd image which it loads on boot and uses to load the ext3 
> module.
> 

I don't know jack about LVM, but from reading other posts and docs it
seems that having the root partition on a filesystem that is loaded as a
module is generally a bad idea. Why don't you compile the ext3 module
into the kernel? If your root partition is ext3 compiling the driver as
a module makes little sense as it is going to used all the time.

-Andy


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Automating IMAP email maintenance

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to
Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are
applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able
to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup
folder. 

Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too
much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if
somebody could point me the right direction.

Thanks,
Andy


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Re: Increasing screen refresh rate in X

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:31:48PM -0700, nate wrote:
> xvidtune, I think the only way to manually set the refresh rate would
> be to make your own modelines ??
> 
> not sure though.
> 
> nate

Duh! That did it - my refresh rates are the best possible so I don't
need to mess with the modelines.

Thanks to the others for their suggestions.

-Andy


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Re: Some problems printing

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:37:19PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> I'm trying to print the test page from a Debian Sarge PC.  After messing 
> around a while I made KDE see the printers, but non-KDE apps (Opera) don't.

I don't use Opera, but I'd guess that Opera sends its output to lp or
lpr. Piping to either of these two commands is a pretty standard way of
printing. I think you need to install the cupsys-client and cupsys-bsd
packages to get printing capabilities with lp and lpr.

When I first set up CUPS, I couldn't print from some applications since
they were calling lpr. After installing cupsys-bsd I was able to print
from these applications.

> 
> Now, I've fixed the username/password issue, but now when I try to print it 
> shows sometimes "Unable to connect to SAMBA client" and some other times the 
> printing seems to go through, but the printer queue in the Win2000 PC shows 
> "Remote low level document" for a while before deleting it.  Any clues on how 
> to fix this? Thanks!
> 

Assuming you are printing from the Windows machine to the Samba machine,
this could be a problem with the Samba setup. Do you have any Samba
shares that you access from this windows 2000 machine? Do they work
properly?

-Andy


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Re: gcc 3.2 & kernels compiled with 2.95

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:52:36AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 02:50, Klaus Imgrund wrote:
> >
> > I just got rid of an installation I compiled with 3.2
> > IMHO you don't really need gcc 3.2 just jet.Didn't see the 'great' speed
> > increase in apps but got a lot of broken apps that don't work right with
> > gcc 3.2. Plus the thing is really slow.
> >
> 
> g++ (the C++ compiler) is where a lot of things have changed.  C++ apps 
> compiled with the new compiler tend to load and run faster.  The new compiler 
> is slower due to the higher level of standards checking, optimization 
> attempts, etc. mostly because of the increased memory usage.

Thanks for all your answers. I can breathe easier now after knowing that
an accidental apt-get upgrade will not result in an unbootable system.

-Andy
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Hotplugging USB, debconf question

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I am running sid, and I just upgraded the hotplug package. During setup
I am asked if I want to use hotplugging with USB or not. Could somebody
please explain why hotplugging should or should be needed with USB?

Thanks,
Andy


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gcc 3.2 & kernels compiled with 2.95

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I don't quite understand the complexity of the process to move Debian to
gcc 3.2. It seems there's an issue about programs compiled with 3.2 not
being able to work with libraries compiled with 2.95. Without going into
too much technical details, could somebody tell me if this is correct?

I was just wondering if this transition is going to cause trouble for
those of us who compile our own kernels using gcc 2.95.

Thanks,
Andy


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Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:52:52AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> 1) What module is for this card listed when you do an lsmod as root?
> 
> 2) Are you using the same kernel (2.4.18) with the kernel-pcmcia-modules?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Lars.

Lars,

Firstly, please keep your posts to the list so others may benefit and
contribute.

I compiled the driver into the kernel instead of making it a module. The
reason I did this is because I see no particular advantage in having a
driver that is used 99.9% of the time be dynamically loaded and unloaded
into the kernel. I think you can get more information in Thomas's reply
to your original post.

I was using 2.4.18 till last week, and then moved on up to 2.4.19.

I am attaching my kernel config file. You should think about compiling a
customized kernel. I did compile in pcmcia and cardbus support, though I
don't think it is used by the driver code. Here's the relevant portion
of the kernel config file.

#
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
# CONFIG_I82365 is not set

I also compiled in hotplugging support, which I think is needed. Here's
the relevant portion.

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y


Here's the relevant section that shows support for the ethernet card.

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_SUNLANCE is not set
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNBMAC is not set
# CONFIG_SUNQE is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
# CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_EL16 is not set
# CONFIG_EL3 is not set
# CONFIG_3C515 is not set
# CONFIG_ELMC is not set
# CONFIG_ELMC_II is not set
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set
# CONFIG_AT1700 is not set
# CONFIG_DEPCA is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set


If you are compiling your own kernel, and you compile the driver into
the kernel, rather than as a module, you will know if your card is
working when the ethernet card connector light comes on at boot up. As a
prerequisite, you should be connected to a network before booting your
machine.

I don't use the pcmcia-modules package as it's not needed with this
particular model.

Enough said :-}. 

-Andy


#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
# CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor type and features
#
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MELAN is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
# CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
CONFIG_I8K=y
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_MTRR=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
# CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y

#
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
# CONFIG_I82365 is not set

#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
# CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT is not set
# CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
# CONFIG_

Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
> Try modprobe 3c59x
> 
> From the kernel source help line:
> 
> CONFIG_VORTEX:
> 
> This option enables driver support for a large number of 10mbps and
> 10/100mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards:
> 
> "Vortex"(Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597) EISA and PCI
> "Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905)PCI
> "Cyclone"   (3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656)PCI and Cardbus
> "Tornado"   (3c905)  PCI
> "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO)   PCI
> 
> If you have such a card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO,
> available from . More
> specific information is in
> Documentation/networking/vortex.txt and in the comments at
> the beginning of drivers/net/3c59x.c.
> 
> If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
> inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
> say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt as well as
> Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt.
> 

I have the same ethernet card in my Dell laptop, and you don't need the
pcmcia package to make it work. The only other thing I can add to
Thomas's post is that you may require the hotplug package.

-Andy


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Re: CUPS configuration

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> Hello..
> 
> Reading this thread I decided to give a try to CUPS and I've managed to 
> configure my printer (HP Deskjet 722C connected to a Win2K PC on LAN).  
> Anyway, I'm not able to print because I need to specify the Username and 
> Password, but I can't find any way of doing this.  Could anyone please give 
> me a hand on this one?

Where are you trying to print from? 

> 
> Also, how can I make other programs "see" the printer and let them print from 
> it? Opera and KDE don't detect it..

Which interface did you use to set up your printer? When you set up the
printer, you'd have had to give it a name. Any KDE app. should show the
printer name in the print dialog box.

-Andy


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Re: created problems uninstalling xdm

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Jim Hribar wrote:
> I uninstalled xdm (apt-get remove xdm) and which in turn removed the
> meta package x-window-system.  Then I removed all instances of the xdm
> directories (the uninstall said the directories weren't empty):
> 
>  
> 
> /var/lib/xdm
> 
> /etc/X11/xdm
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is, I can reinstall xdm fine, and it works (I think it looks
> different), but those files do not come back.  How do I know? If I
> uninstall the package again, it does not tell me that the directory is
> empty.  What package filled those directories?  I used tasksel to
> install X Windows.
> 
>  
> 
> Hope that's descriptive enough,
> 

Hmmm... if it works, where's the problem? Looking for symptoms without
an ailment seems a bit of wasted effort.

Is X working all right now? What about xdm? If you are having any
errors, please state those in your email. Otherwise - enjoy the Linux
experience!

-Andy


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Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file
> > from one kernel source tree to another.
> 
> by all means ;)
> then run (from the new source directory) : make oldconfig .
> you will be prompted only for the new changes...
> 

Is that before or after /usr/src/linux is linked to the new source tree?

> aint debian kewl ??

More so because of the Debian community. I can still remember when I was
new to Debian and Wichert, who at that time was the project leader, took
the time to answer my simple question:
What's an architecture?

I was probably in my sophomore year at college. I swear I just sat in my
chair completely in awe; care to imagine the last time you met a Windows
user whose question had been answered by the project leader of, say,
Windows ME? The next day Bram answered my question on the vim list :-}.

FWIW, the mainstream talks a lot about the business development model of
free software, but not many people realize that for a lot of developers
it is about principles and pride in one's creation and, sometimes, a
little ego. I doubt if any amount of money can buy that.

The Debian Way - the next step in economic evolution.

-Andy


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Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote:
> never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel
> as I get them(habbit? maybe).
> 

How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration
routine when, perhaps, all you want is an additional feature that's
recently become stable? Or, perhaps, you want an additional feature that
you didn't compile in previously?

Also, I'd like to know that if I copied .config from 2.4.4 to 2.4.19,
what happens to the new configuration features  that may have become
available in 2.4.19. For example, would NEW_FEATURE show up in the
correct category when I do "make menuconfig"?

Thanks.
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Knoppix & DemoLinux

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Hi,

I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux
CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between
DemoLinux & Knoppix?

Thank you.
Andy


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Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.

[Andy Saxena]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> Hello Joh:
> 
> IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups.  I think it has to be 
> the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of 
> Linux.  The driver base is huge and the ability to configure drivers on the 
> fly is awesome.  I migrated from Lprng to cups on this box, and I just 
> completed a new install of Woody with cups on my laptop.  Both run perfectly.
> 

I will second that as a recent CUPS convert. Heck, it took me all of 5
minutes to configure two shared HP LaserJet printers that were attached
to two Windows 2000 machines. This was on a Windows network and I had
Samba pre-configured.

For the sake of completeness I should state that I used the kdeprint
interface to CUPS, though I don't think that makes a lot of difference
as far as user-friendliness of CUPS is concerned. Be prepared to be
amazed! 

-Andy

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[Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)]

[Andy Saxena]

Just thought I'd make this part of the mailing list.

-Andy

--- Begin Message ---

Andy Saxena wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file
>from one kernel source tree to another.
>
>Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in:
>
>1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series.
>2.) Copying the config file from one minor version to another within the
>same series.
>
>I have seen plenty of questions asked about compiling a custom kernel,
>but I don't remember this issue being tackled in any of them.
>
>Thanks,
>Andy
>
>
>  
>
i did this with the 2.4.18-686 config file from debian to a clean source.
It did not build and i had a lot of hassle to find options to make it build.
But try by all means, but if you run in to ' unresolved headers' or 
something like that it probably is uncorrect options.
The worst thing that can happen is that you spend time on it, if it 
builds you are ok.
Kenneth




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Re: Map Keys ???? pls help

[Andy Saxena]

Reposting three times in two days isn't going to get you an answer. If
nobody's replied so far it's because nobody that's read your posts knows
the answer. Please wait a few days, and if somebody who knows the answer
reads your post, they will help you out.

Thanks,
Andy


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Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file
from one kernel source tree to another.

Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in:

1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series.
2.) Copying the config file from one minor version to another within the
same series.

I have seen plenty of questions asked about compiling a custom kernel,
but I don't remember this issue being tackled in any of them.

Thanks,
Andy


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Increasing screen refresh rate in X

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows
one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I
find out what the current refresh rates are?


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Re: IDE master to slave conversion

[Andy Saxena]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:01:13PM -0700, nate wrote:
> install rescue cd(if your using the default kernel). lilo may complain
> if you try to point it to a non-existant device. with a boot disk you
> can do
> 
> linux root=/dev/hdb6
> 
> and have it boot, then you can run lilo to install the new bootloader
> 

If you use LILO, take 30 minutes and learn to use grub. You can edit the
boot time parameters at boot time. I recently switched my HDD from
/dev/hda to /dev/hde by attaching it to the on-board Promise controller.
I was glad to have grub as my boot loader. An additional advantage is
that you don't have to rerun grub every time you change your kernel.
grub can read your filesystem.

By the way, I am just a Debian desktop user, not a programmer.

-Andy


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Re: IMAP is a memory hog

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:27:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> IMHO there are only two IMAP servers worth the bother: Cyrus and Courrier.
> You should try both, and use whichever works best for you.  For Cyrus, it is
> very, very, very important to read the docs, otherwise you probably won't
> get past the SASL setup :-)
> 

If you follow the docs and understand the steps, setting up cyrus is
easy as pie.

The SASL part can get a bit confusing. The other thing to remember is
that stable (probably testing too) have an older version of cyrus
compared to unstable. Just be careful about this when you read the docs.

On my single-user system, imapd uses about 2-3M of memory.

-Andy


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running another OS on plex86 [was Re: bochs v. vmware]

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:27:34AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I stand corrected.
> 
> Citations help.  From the Plex86 information page:
> 
> http://www.plex86.org/info.phtml
> 
> What is Plex86?
> 
> The goal of the Plex86 project is to create an extensible open 
> source PC virtualization software program which will allow PC  
> and workstation users to run multiple operating systems
> concurrently on the same machine. 
> 
> Thanks, Colin.
> 

So who's the brave soul who's managed to run another OS on plex86? How
easy has it been?

-Andy


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Re: cyrus & exim

[Andy Saxena]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote:
> local_delivery:
>   driver = pipe
>   command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ${local_part}"
>   return_path_add = true
>   return_output
>   prefix = ""
>   user = cyrus


Shouldn't command be
command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" ? At least that's the
setup with cyrus 2.1.9 running on sid.

-Andy


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Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:58:59PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> 
> Dunno if this will help or not, but I initially had the same problem & 
> stumbled upon an answer for me.
> 
> First, I use the "Printing Manager" in KDE to set up CUPS.  All of the 
> rest is in reference to this utility.
> 
> If you select your printer from the "Printing Manager" initial screen 
> you will get a window with 4 Tabs.  The last Tab is called "Instances". 
>  If you select the "Instances" tab on the right side will be a listing 
> of possible additional selections.  Select "Settings".  This will bring 
> up a new window,with again a series of 3 Tabs, the last of which will be 
> called "Filters".  When you select this, you will get yet another screen 
> where you can add or remove various filters.  I had to add the "PDF 
> Writer" filter in order to get xpdf & acroread to print out.  As I 
> recall there was one for enscript plus a couple of more.
> 
> I suggest you play around with these filters and see what happens
> 
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-

Actually, I had more trouble than I thought. My printer's acting up; so
much so that it prints better in Linux than in Windows. It's only
printing b/w even though the ink levels are fine for other colors. Once
I get the hardware issues sorted out, I will revisit the software
issues.

Thanks for the tip. KDE print worked out great for some of the tweaking.

-Andy


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Re: Exim & Cyrus

[Andy Saxena]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:02:00PM +0100, sdownes wrote:
> I've had exim working well for some time & am now trying to add cyrus 
> imap. I'm getting the following error having modified exim.conf in line 
> with the exim book as follows:-
> 
> 
> local_delivery_cyrus:
> driver  = pipe
> command = /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver \  
> -m ${substr_1:${local_part_suffix}}\
>   --${local_part}
> user= cyrus
> group   = mail
> return_output
> 
> log_output
> 
> prefix  =
> suffix  =
> 

Try 

$ which cyrdeliver

-Andy


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Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:24:28PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote:
> By chance, are these Postscript files from xpdf?  I have the problem
> when printing Postscript files generated from pdf files using xpdf,
> otherwise, all other Postscript files print perfectly.  (The solution is
> to let CUPS convert the pdf file.)

Nope, these Postscript files are not generated by xpdf. One was
generated by muttprint, the other was generated by enscript. Like I
stated, if I pipe a text file through enscript directly to lp, it prints
fine. However, I am unable to print the Postscript file generated by
enscript from the same text file.

> 
> Happy to help,

Thanks. I heard a lot of praise about CUPS, and it would still be an
amazing piece of software if it just did what it says it does :-}.

-Andy


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CUPS - unable to print postscript file

[Andy Saxena]

I got my printer to work and I thought I was done. Guess not. I can take
text files and pipe them through enscript and they print just fine.
However

$ lp somepsfile.ps

gives me rows of  barcode-like lines on the printout. I read the user
manual and it said that CUPS understands the postscript filetype
directly. I assume this means that the above command should give the
proper output.

Any pointers?

-Andy


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Re: CUPS & Epson - Prints Blanks!

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:47:42AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This one's proving to be a real head-scratcher for me. I got my Epson
> Stylus Color 740 configured with CUPS, choosing the "Epson Stylus Color
> 740, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2(en)" driver from the CUPS
> configuration. However, when I go to print a test page, I can see the
> printing head moving back and forth as if it is printing something, only
> it isn't! The page comes out with a few streaks of yellow.
> 
> The printer is connected via /dev/usb/lp0 and I know it works, because I
> can do
> $ cat ~/.bashrc > /dev/usb/lp0
> and it prints out just fine.
> 
> Googling around with keywords like "CUPS Epson Blank Pages" has revealed
> nothing.
> 
> Could a kind soul help out a Linux desktop user? :-}
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy

Of course, I suppose cleaning out the printer heads would've helped me.
I still don't understand why 
$ cat ~/.bashrc > /dev/usb/lp0
worked!

Anyway, CUPS is up and running. It is truly amazing how well it works -
just as advertised!

-Andy


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Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:25:24PM -0700, nate wrote:
> 
> I believe debian disables apm on the default kernels since not all
> systems are compadible with it(my mom's CTX laptop for example will
> crash hard when APM is turned on). You can possibly override this
> by putting apm=on in the append statement for /etc/lilo.conf and
> re-running lilo. if your using grub I'm not certain what the procedure
> would be since I haven't configured grub yet.
> 
> nate

For grub, one puts the options on the "kernel" line itself.

-Andy


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Re: bochs v. vmware

[Andy Saxena]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:21:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0700, nate wrote:
> > some may even require use of vmware/bochs/etc to run ..
> 
> Is bochs anywhere near as user-friendly as vmware yet?

Nope, not by a long shot. Also, vmware is also lightening fast compared
to bochs. Bochs is described as a PC emulator, while vmware is virtual
machine software. I don't know the difference at a technical level.
Perhaps somebody else can shed more light on it.

-Andy


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CUPS & Epson - Prints Blanks!

[Andy Saxena]

Hi,

This one's proving to be a real head-scratcher for me. I got my Epson
Stylus Color 740 configured with CUPS, choosing the "Epson Stylus Color
740, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2(en)" driver from the CUPS
configuration. However, when I go to print a test page, I can see the
printing head moving back and forth as if it is printing something, only
it isn't! The page comes out with a few streaks of yellow.

The printer is connected via /dev/usb/lp0 and I know it works, because I
can do
$ cat ~/.bashrc > /dev/usb/lp0
and it prints out just fine.

Googling around with keywords like "CUPS Epson Blank Pages" has revealed
nothing.

Could a kind soul help out a Linux desktop user? :-}

Thanks,
Andy


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Re: Network lost after softboot

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:49:26PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
| I run sid and recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18. When I
| first installed sid (with kernel 2.2.19), my network card, a
| 
| 3Com Etherlink 10/100 (3c905c)
| 
| was immetiately recognized. I did a kernel upgrade from
| the debian 2.4.18-686 pre-compiled kernel image, and this kernel did not

I think you meant to say you upgraded to debian 2.4.18-686.

| recognize the network card until I installed the 3c59x module, and only
| so after a softboot from kernel 2.2.19 into kernel 2.4.18.
| 

If you install a new kernel you have to reboot the machine to use it.

| Any ideas how to make 2.4.18 recognize the card after a cold boot?
| Are there some parameters I must supply for the configuration of the
| module?
| 

If you installed the 3c59x module during the install of 2.4.18, and you
reinstalled your boot loader (LILO?), then the next time you boot it
should come up with the 2.4.18 kernel loading the module.

-Andy


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Re: modprobe can't locate /dev/lp1 ..

[Andy Saxena]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:23AM -0500, John Manko wrote:
| If the kernel autoloader for modules is set to yes, and I compile IDE 
| and IDE-SCSI as modules, will the autoloader load IDE or IDE-SCSI on 
| boot.  That is, if nothing is specified in /etc/modules.conf
| 
| I'm thinking I have to explicitly tell the kernel to use IDE-SCSI, correct?
| 
| John

Here's what I have. I created the file /etc/modutils/scsi and ran
"update-modules". I am assuming you need it for the CD-R or CD-RW. My
CD-R is on /dev/hda. I set this up a long time ago in Sid, but it still
works.

/etc/modutils/scsi (begin)-
#Modular dependencies for enabling the cdr
options ide-cd ignore=hda   # tell the ide-cd module to ignore hda
alias scd0 sr_mod   # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi #load ide-scsi before sr_mod
#pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi #load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd #load ide-cd before ide-scsi
/etc/modutils/scsi (end)

-Andy


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Re: fstab user mount SOLVED

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| I guess you have to type entire pathname.
| 
| If I am in /mnt
| 
| I cannot type 'mount cdrom'
| I must still type mount /mnt/cdrom
| 
| Lance
| 

That is quite strange if it solved your problem. You should be able to
do 

/mnt $ mount cdrom

and it should work. I don't think it matters, but I am just curious as
to the entry you have in your fstab file for the cdrom.

-Andy


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Re: Moving mailboxes in Postfix

[Andy Saxena]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:27:37PM -0700, nate wrote:
| 
| I may be missing something, but from what I know, postfix doesn't
| store mail(other then the mail queue), if your referring to moving
| a mail account from 1 system to another, and how easy it is, that
| entirely depends upon the kind of mail system your using. I use cyrus
| and it's not too difficult to move from one system to another, though
| its not as simple as just copy the files over

It's funny you say that, because that's what I did just a few days ago
to move from one machine to another :-}. I just needed /var/lib/cyrus
and /var/spool/cyrus, and it worked just fine.

To be fair, mine is a single-user system, and the transfers were between
Debian systems using version 2.1.9 of cyrus.

-Andy


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