On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:19:49PM +, Lazarus Long wrote:
What is the point of pre-compiling C code before packaging it into
.debs? If you can answer that, apply that answer to Python code.
The C ABI is rather more stable than that for Python (or Emacs).
Taking away the precompiled
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:21:28PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
Please tell the exact errors, otherwise nobody can tell what is
happening.
If it's the same error I'm seeing then:
(Reading database ... 79805 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdebase-libs (from
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news
are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those
arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What
gives?
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Why do it that way around instead of ownership root.news, mode 0640?
That way a program running as group news would be able to read it,
but modifications would remain restricted to root.
No particular reason other than that
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:10:02PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer?
There's also OpenH323, which should interoperate with NetMeeting. It's
not packaged for Debian yet but someone is working on it.
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be on vendor-modified CDs and it is on the FTP
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this depends onhow you've got your local mail system
configured. I always used to have Exim rewrite local sender addresses
into something that was usable on the internet - there is/was a section
to the end of exim.conf with an example of how to do this.
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by not allowing your mail server to relay
mail for machines on the intranet.
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simpler.
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job?
You could have it look at the output of mailq for message IDs with '*'
next to them (which means that a delivery is currently being attempted
for that message).
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happened when Postfix got a timeout waiting to
a response to the end of DATA, in which case Postfix logs a message
saying mail may be delivered more than once.
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authors would
consider implementing.
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:01:36AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
mydestinations = jojda, localhost, jojda.2y.net
That should be mydestination.
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).
netscape mail agent works fine, it does not try to directly deliver
mail but uses my ISP mail server.
Your ISP is apparently firewalling port 25. Configure Postfix to
deliver via your ISP like Netscape does (relayhost = whatever).
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that in local e-mail.
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be no
particular problem with outbound mail - the output of eximconfig should
just work. Could you perhaps show some logging from Exim (look in
/var/log/exim/mainlog) showing what exactly is failing?
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http
selected a PPP
network connection it will be run every time you dial in. If you select
a permanent network connection it will run from cron.daily. Otherwise
it shouldn't run automatically unless you set up a cron job or something.
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think you have found a fault in libmm could you file a
bug against the package (see bugs.debian.org for details) with
instructions for reproducing the bug.
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:17:02PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
GCC: bash: a.out: command not found
I got a feeling this is a path isue. But to what? I tried the gcc readme,
the FAQ online and on disk. Nothing.
Try ./a.out. By default the current directory is not on your path.
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or the names specified in
SMTP (although it is common to check that the sender domain actually
exists). Anything else is too simple to forge.
Where relaying from variable IP addresses is used some kind of
authentication (such as POP before SMTP) is needed.
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e-mail this user and that e-mail to postmaster will work.
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fetchmail and then starting it in daemon mode from your
ip-up scripts before the MTA starts trying to deliver outbound mail
would do the trick. You may find putting in a sleep before firing the
queue helps.
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to make the
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nearly enough information to debug a problem. You can start
guessing at possible causes, but there's a fair chance you'll end up
picking the wrong one and/or being more confusing than just asking for
the information needed to work things out.
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download stuff it should you the site you're hitting
and the version number it's fetching while the download is in progress.
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it can find.
You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use
--dummy-run to do a dummy run).
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find.
You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use
--dummy-run to do a dummy
that. It might be desirable to have
facilities to work around buggy packages like that, but in general
the current behaviour (believe the information provided by the
packages) is perfectly sensible.
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libglide2-dev mesag-glide2-dev mesag3-glide2
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1784kB of archives. After unpacking 4922kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
which appears to be exactly what you're asking for.
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). It is certainly avaliable in woody. There's
also other programs that do the same job - try apt-cache search
calculator for some suggestions.
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On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
I have a deb file on my system how
can I install it?
Isnt it possible to install this pack.
whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ?
And how must I do it?
dpkg -i filename
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That alone is a worthwhile thing. Besides, the intention is that dpkg
should support this eventually so the packages are going to have to be
modified at some point. It may as well be done before the changes are
made in dpkg as after.
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for Debian lists. The problem with netvigator is that
their software is generating bounces to the From: line in the message
(which is not rerwitten) rather than the envelope sender.
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and that I'd have to kill the NAT and proxy to make things
work.
It shouldn't pose any problems - we use exactly this setup at work
without ill-effects.
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packets with source addresses on your local network and
leave the destination address unspecified then it will do the right
thing.
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. With a broadband connection
you might want a somewhat more powerful CPU.
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applies.
You also need to specify the access list in the appropriate smtpd
restrictions class. check_client_access should do what you want. See
/usr/share/doc/postfix/examples/sample-smtpd.cf.gz for details.
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will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:26:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3-5) but 1:1.1.3-9 is to be
installed
Well, that's fairly self-explanatory
message
that i have no clue as to the meaning behind it.
is there a debianized tunnel module i can get running?
We use FreeSWAN, which isn't packaged yet.
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some make it optional. It's partly a historical thing springing from
the way mailing lists have been implemented in the past (as /etc/alias
entries), partly for verification (I know my message went out - I can
see it) and partly there for some kinds of processing of lists.
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quite right and perhaps even things that are outright broken.
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/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
non-free
1) why would zlib1g-dev and zlib1g versions not match?
The version 1:1.1.3-9 was only ever uploaded to woody:
| zlib (1:1.1.3-9) unstable; urgency=low
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| * Fix source dependancies (closes: #68469).
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or be bothered to look) system which includes the
recipient address in the sender information. Of course, the broken mail
software is generating bounces to the From: in the message rather than
the envelope sender so that won't actually help much...
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with a number of
libraries for them. LAM is generally regarded as the faster of the two.
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it's another of your accounts) or try to
convince Exim to be less picky.
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at the imap or courier-imap packages (or perhaps courier-imapd
if the license is acceptable to you).
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before it could become
policy.
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works for a subset of headers.
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an externally valid domain name.
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that fail to configure then try asking here about how to
proceed, quoting exactly what happens.
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need to share things like the
configuration. There's more methods for attacking problems like this
than just a shared mail account.
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:58:35PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
You'd need to find out what criteria the mail server is using to
restrict sent mail. Generally, it should just look at the address of
your system, but apparently it's
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote:
Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a
palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without
using a modem connection.
You might try pilot-mail.
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:05:56PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
;-) . Having used Outlook, which seems to be the example people are
quoting of something that supports this I actually prefer the separate
*cough* I have stated two
: contribute nothing, expect nothing
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:10:16AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
Close, but not perfect. They insist on sending everything out a single
SMTP server.
This requirement I really don't get: what practical difference does it make?
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(probably, I don't actually use sendmail) shouldn't need to use
userdb at all. Could you post exactly what you do when running
sendmailconfig?
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in a completely separate
account without the need for a separate account locally.
As far as I'm aware all the MUAs with non-trivial support for IMAP can
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. Generally, it should just look at the address of
your system, but apparently it's doing more than that (which doesn't
buy them any security, but anyway).
What happens if you send mail from Spruce through your own mail server.
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:14:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
Generally, you should just be able to tell your mail client to use a
different configuration.
Hack. The mail client should be able to do that internally.
It seems
multiple servers and folders and can
conditionally set headers based upon various criteria.
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both with
one instance of a program.
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wonder if
that's proper.
There's a reason why the /etc/init.d scripts are all conffiles :-) .
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and optional packages too?
There's no way to make apt-get install anything except dependancies
automatically. You'd need to either used dselect or look at the
suggestions and recommendations and install them yourself.
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that you have all the source dependancies. Actually, I'd suggest
just installing from source rather than bothering with the .debs.
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the separate logs you'll have to either find a
syslogd replacement that does what you want or post-process based on the
host field in the logfile(s). If you're processing the logs you may
find it easier to create a catchall log that gets everything written to
it and start from there.
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/ (it's not
Debian-specific) and on Debian systems in in /usr/doc/debian-policy/fhs
Any major differences should be documented in the policy manual, which
is on the web at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy.
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rewriting.
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it's probably a bad idea: sendmail is a complex
piece of software and unless you know what you're doing or have
fairly specialised requirements.
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have been that way since as long as I can remember so I
wouldn't hold your breath. What you can do is to use procmail to filter
out the announcments you don't want.
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/resolv.conf with nameserver n.n.n.n.
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not going to get updated unless there's a spectacular security hole or
similar.
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between static and dynamic
connections, but it supports both. The slink installer doesn't know
anything about DHCP, though you can normally get around this by getting
an IP allocated in Windows and then claiming this is your static IP for
the purposes of the installer.
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to the primary host you have to arrange
some for the secondary to get access to the mail, with IMAP being a
common mechanism.
If most mail is being delivered to the secondary MX that probably
indicates that there's poor connectivity to the primary MX.
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need to send it off again?
do you know anything about the perl mailtools ?
Not a thing.
You'd be much better off asking about this stuff somewhere like
comp.mail.sendmail - it's fairly specialized stuff that is often
attacked with funky hardware.
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PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
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Please quote properly: delete material not needed for context and place
new text after old.
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Is there some particular reason you decided to
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be done with most MTAs.
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a bit concerned that you say that the SMTP server
keeps your mailbox locked when things fail - it shouldn't be touching
the mailbox until it's got the mail sucessfuly.
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:48:37PM -0500, Chris Tessone wrote:
It seemed to me he meant that the server from which he's grabbing the
mail is locking the file (on the remote server), not sendmail under
Linux.
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messages properly? It makes
them much easier to read.]
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...anyone have any ideas.
What do the MTA logs (probably in /var/spool/mail.log unless you use
exim in which case /var/log/exim/mainlog) say? What particular e-mail
addresses give problems (you say changing the address helps)? Are you
on-line or off-line when you send mail?
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is so that
things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised.
Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP
to inject mail, bypassing this check.
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to the server it fetches news from.
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server was checked using Fetchmail the e-mail as mentioned above was
no longer there.
Fetchmail shouldn't have noticed that - all it works with is the mailbox
at your ISP. If the message was being downloaded and the connection
went away it should just drop what it had got on the floor.
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move that job into a separate program that everything
could use.
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#define __linux 1
#define __ELF__ 1
#define unix 1
That doesn't define __STDC__ on Slink either.
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be concerned with any smtp-relaying
issues since Postfix is running on my system ?
Postfix is pretty secure by default. You could always firewall out any
incoming connections on port 25, but if you don't want to worry about
firewalling I wouldn't worry too much.
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the relayhost won't help at all. By the time Postfix looks at
the relayhost it has already decided to try to deliver the mail
remotely.
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a domain part of phoenix.phoenix. Try
adding that to mydestination and see where that gets you.
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be a good idea for our
That's a perfectly reasonable decision for the target audience. It's
very easy for people who don't know what their doing to seriously
misconfigure a mail client.
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in your .bash_profile.)
Cannonical mapping can probably do most of the work for you. Probably
just a sender-only one which rewrites the user accounts to the
externally visible version and anything else to some reasonable default
(in case some system user sends mail).
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.
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at the debian-beowulf archives - there's been some
discussion of MOSIX there.
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