apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most of their talent, has finally caused me to leave; the last update to

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [I wrote]: It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type urpmf kross it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, and will then go on to

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote: William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: ad[0,6]s1 are the 2 offending partitions. Also, in the interlude, I went ahead e2fsck'ed both partitions, both came back w/ '* FILE SYSTEM

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-13 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/12/12 18:24, David Guntner wrote: Ok, try this just for grins. Edit your /etc/mtab file, and add the following line: /dev/ad6s1 /mnt/ad6s1 ext2fs ro 0 0 (I'm following your example from ad4s1; ordinarily with a Linux kernel

IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Yes, I'm one of those fogies who still prefers the main mailbox for users to be in /var/spool/mail (which is apparently a link to /var/mail in Debian :-) ). I need an IMAP4/POP3 server which supports SSL, and while the IMAP server can access the userspace of the logged-in user to get to files in

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Sven Hartge grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Yes, I'm one of those fogies who still prefers the main mailbox for users to be in /var/spool/mail (which is apparently a link to /var/mail in Debian :-) ). I need an IMAP4/POP3 server which supports SSL

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Le 18/11/2012 03:54, David Guntner a écrit : Sven Hartge grabbed a keyboard and wrote: The answer is: Dovecot Documentation for version 1 included in Debian Squeeze is at http://wiki.dovecot.org/ Thanks! Missed that one while I was doing aptitude

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
staticsafe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/18/2012 0:07, David Guntner wrote: mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: it actually works well with postfix (dovecot provides a simple authentication solution for postfix). What do you mean by that? He means SASL auth. [1] Oh really

Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Thanks to those who pointed me in that direction, I've now got Dovecot running on my test system. However, I've got some issues that I'm hoping someone here can help out with. I did a bunch of googling to find some of what I needed, but I'm not sure how to adjust things at this point (and some

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
(This accidentally went directly to mouss instead of back to the list - resending) mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Le 18/11/2012 16:34, David Guntner a écrit : I've discovered, somewhat to my dismay, that Dovecot will just sit there and cheerfully let you keep making attempts to login

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:00 PM, David Guntner wrote: Assuming I could get a meaningful log entry with each bad attempt, I could have fail2ban act - but that's still pretty useless since as far as I understand it; telling iptables to DROP a given IP

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [Lots of fail2ban stuff] Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there waiting, I start mucking around and googling more and stuff. Just discovered

Re: (SOLVED) Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [Lots of fail2ban stuff] Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there waiting, I start mucking around

Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body doesn't appear - the status bar just says Downloading message... and it sits

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
) and it never behaved this way prior to the switch to Debian and Dovecot. So if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them... :-) David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner: Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around enough times

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
John L. Cunningham grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an unread message, and the header

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner: Thunderbird isn't supposed to be opening a new connection with each message it tries to read; it should just read them with the one connection it has. Well, it usually uses more than one connection. I'd still try reducing

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Ok, so your assumption is that some connections to Dovecot hang for an unknown reason and that's why Thunderbird creates new ones? In order to debug that, I would increase logfile verbosity für Dovecot (probably including authentication logging) and

Swap partition vs swap file

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Hi all, While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek out some opinions here. :-) When setting up Linux systems, I've always set up a separate swap partition. I was reading a few days ago that

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
hanging up when going after a message currently flagged as unread? This just keeps getting more and more bizarre. David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Ok, so your assumption is that some connections to Dovecot hang for an unknown reason

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-26 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: For further analysis, you can follow Dovecot's instructions. They even have a separate page for TB: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Thunderbird You can also try to upgrade to the backport[1] of Dovecot 2.1. Beware that this upgrade involves

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-27 Thread David Guntner
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit : It never did this with the IMAP server that I was using on my old system My mail reader in my smart phone works just fine with it, BTW. :-) I googled a bit and found a note about setting a Thunderbird

Re: which package has a binary like this sendmail one in exim?

2012-11-28 Thread David Guntner
Britton Kerin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi folks, I know exim sometimes contains a sendmail binary because on one system I get this: britt...@brittonkerin.com [~]# sendmail --version Exim version 4.76 #1 built 26-Oct-2012 16:41:54 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 -

Linux vs BSD (was Re: how many users is enough?)

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ they are also doing some free softwares. $

KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
Hi, all. I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root would let you set the menu items for all users on the system. Now, unfortunately, it only seems to edit the menu for the root user. Is there a way under KDE4 to edit the menu entries, and then have it save the

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
So, no one has any ideas/info on this? Am I the only Debian user who doesn't use GNOME? :-) David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi, all. I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root would let you set the menu items for all users on the system. Now

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:51:01 -0800 David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Hello David, So, no one has any ideas/info on this? Am I the only Debian user who I've never tried what to do what you're asking. It may be that it was possible under

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Jay DeKing grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root would let you set the menu items for all users on the system. Now, unfortunately, it only seems to edit the menu for the root user

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:18:49 -0800 David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Hello David, So I guess I'll go find a KDE list and join long enough to ask the question. :-) How about debian-...@lists.debian.org? Oh! Ok, I didn't know

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:15:01 -0800 David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Hello David, Yea, I wasn't completely clear about that. It was under KDE3 where I had been able to do that, back on my old Mandriva setup. It would I missed that part

Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

2012-12-10 Thread David Guntner
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Monday 10 December 2012 09:55:28 Chris Bannister wrote: Is it double sheeted with a carbon paper arrangement so the second sheet is a carbon copy of the original? I've not come across that. I have only seen and used single sheets. But there are

Re: Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

2012-12-10 Thread David Guntner
On 12/10/2012 03:21 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:39:49AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: third, etc., copy. Of course either carbon or NCR paper needs to be run on a dot-matrix or other impact-type printer. High-speed laser printers used in that environment (which do

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread David Guntner
Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does. I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does. I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, service

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-19 Thread David Guntner
Nelson Green grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Good morning, Can anyone help me understand why the following two console commands each produce output, but only one of them produces output when both are called in a shell script? $ /bin/echo Shell: $SHELL Shell: /bin/bash $ /bin/echo

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-19 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Dec 19, 2012, at 9:07 AM, David Guntner wrote: 'Cause /bin/sh points to dash, not bash, in Debian. In squeeze, but not in lenny. It's bash in lenny: ls -la /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 27 14:09 /bin/sh - dash ls -la /bin/sh

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-19 Thread David Guntner
[You know, it would be *really* nice if you set your mail program to include an attribute line at the top, indicating who you're replying to/quoting :-)] Nelson Green grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [I said...] Nelson Green grabbed a keyboard and wrote: $ cat output.sh #!/bin/sh /bin/echo

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-23 Thread David Guntner
the account isn't available and then exits. $ egrep davidg /etc/passwd davidg:x:1000:100:David Guntner:/home/davidg:/bin/bash That's me on my home system. See the last field? It sets the login shell to /bin/bash. All you have to do is edit /etc/passwd and change that last field for the person you want

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-24 Thread David Guntner
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to process them in batch. I think I missed part of this thread

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-25 Thread David Guntner
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Tom H writes: Sure, that works, too - however, you'll have to edit /etc/shells to include /bin/false and/or /usr/sbin/nologin, 'cause those aren't valid login shells by default. That restriction does not apply to root. Ok, that's good to know. I

Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread David Guntner
Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Στις 30/12/2012 03:56 μμ, ο/η lina έγραψε: Hi, I use xfce4, I wonder which is the best package to pick for dropbox, # apt-cache search dropbox try this http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/how-to-install-dropbox-in-xubuntu-and.html ..

Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread David Guntner
grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 30 December 2012 18:26, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Just as an asside, dropbox.com has a Debian .deb package that can be downloaded from it, as well as a Python script that can be used to control it from the shell. That might be worth looking

Re: Top and bottom posting - again!! was: Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread David Guntner
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2012 19:49:14 Dick Thomas wrote: okay will bottom post, (like it matters) Yes, it does. Top posting makes the thread really difficult, if not impossible, to follow. Yup, that was the point I was trying to make. when gmail

What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Hi, all. Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified, urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it out. Instead, it would create a new copy for you to look over and merge.

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote: Hi, all. Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified, urpmi was smart enough to realize

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look through? Or something else? No - it will prompt interactively during installation. There are options on apt

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Johan Grönqvist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev: Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at least go through the process manually. What fun!grin It does. If you

Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Hi, Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look Thanks! --Dave signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get put in when the account is created

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Arun Khan grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-09 Thread David Guntner
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Steven Jan Springl ste...@springl.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jan 2013 04:08:30 David Guntner wrote: Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-09 Thread David Guntner
One last followup, in case anyone researching something similar notices he same semi-problem David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Found the section in /etc/pam.d/login (and the corresponding one in /etc/pam.d/su) which reads: # Prints the status of the user's mailbox upon

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-11 Thread David Guntner
Andrei POPESCU grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mi, 09 ian 13, 11:32:02, David Guntner wrote: and then an echo $MAIL it has the correct value. It's almost like somehow logging in via the KDM manager (again, haven't tested with GDM since I don't use Gnome, so I don't know if the problem

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-13 Thread David Guntner
Following up to myself here, hoping that someone can help with one final problem I've run into. David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Andrei POPESCU grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mi, 09 ian 13, 11:32:02, David Guntner wrote: and then an echo $MAIL it has the correct value. It's

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-13 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Following up to myself here, hoping that someone can help with one final problem I've run into. [...] If I ssh in from another machine. :-( I've verified that I get the value of $MAIL set to what I've put into pam.d files when I login via

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-13 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Following up to myself here, hoping that someone can help with one final problem I've run into. [...] If I ssh in from another machine. :-( I've verified that I get the value of $MAIL set to what

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread David Guntner
Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I wonder if there already is a solution for this: I have several mailboxes in various places that I access using several clients (e.g. other from my laptop, other from my Android and other from a public place). Some of boxes (e.g. the one I use

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread David Guntner
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:10:07AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: My regular user account runs fetchmail via cron every so often, which goes out via secure (encrypted) IMAP connections to my various mailboxes scattered across the Internet

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread David Guntner
Robert Brockway grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, David Guntner wrote: So it might actually be safer to let it hand the mail off to Postfix (Which, just to be clear, is done by fetchmail's default action, which is to hand off the mail via the SMTP port; not specifically

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread David Guntner
Robert Brockway grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, David Guntner wrote: (2) Use a catch-all rule at the end of .procmailrc so that even if mail falls through it goes somewhere other than /dev/null. Also mentioned in the manpage I quoted: It doesn't say that the errant

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread David Guntner
Robert Brockway grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Me too. I figured on a list of thousands(?) I better mention it lest someone go out and just turn it on, on their MTA :) Understood. Though as a favor, if you do that again in the future, if you're bringing something up that's outside the scope

Re: /var full

2013-01-30 Thread David Guntner
Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote: In the future instead of removing a file that you want to be freed immediately consider truncating it instead. By truncating the file it does not matter if there are other handles to it. The filesystem will immediately free the storage associated

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu package to install cleanly. Do you have any tips that you can remember? What Debian release are

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
. :-) From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] I don't know what kind of time-table they have set for themselves, but given Valve's increasing interest in the Linux market, I'd be willing to bet that once their open beta testing period is over with, they'll start expanding to other Linux

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
[Oops, accidentally sent this reply directly to Mark (sorry about that!). Resending to the list...] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly

How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-common from version 1. I discovered this

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Never mind, figured it out. :-) --Dave David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Andrei POPESCU grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Vi, 01 feb 13, 08:41:05, David Guntner wrote: aptitude search '~c' ... So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a aptitude purge '~p' Typo or was that the issue (you didn't mention)? Yea, that last one was a typo

Cannot start application via link

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Ok, this one I've searched like crazy for, and haven't been able to come up with anything solid. ;-) So hopefully someone here will have dealt with this and can give me some pointers. I've recently installed PlayOnLinux (which personally, I think is a really neat tool) on my squeeze system. I

Re: How to forward local mail to external address?

2013-02-04 Thread David Guntner
Magicloud Magiclouds grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi, By default, many tools like cron will send mails to local, like magicloud@localhost. Now I want these mails to be relayed to my company mail address. So I do not have to configure all tools to send mail directly to my company

Re: SMTP server does not support authentication

2013-02-06 Thread David Guntner
rodrigo tavares grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hello ! I try sent a email via web, come this errors. I searched for many sites, but i not found I have postfix, cyrus and LDAP included. # When sent mail for firefox Auhentication failure [SMTP: SMTP server does not support

Re: SMTP server does not support authentication

2013-02-06 Thread David Guntner
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 2/6/2013 12:32 PM, rodrigo tavares wrote: Hello ! I try sent a email via web, come this errors. I searched for many sites, but i not found I have postfix, cyrus and LDAP included. # When sent mail for firefox Auhentication failure [SMTP: SMTP

Re: SMTP server does not support authentication

2013-02-06 Thread David Guntner
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: What I said was the server doesn't accept authentication. And yes, I have seen many servers which don't allow it from trusted sources. They include localhost, but a large number also accept from designated servers (where authentication has

Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-02-27 Thread David Guntner
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: AND PLEASE STOP HITTING REPLY ALL - I DON'T NEED TWO COPIES OF EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTINGS - REPLY TO THE LIST, ONLY If you're using Procmail to filter your E-Mail, I can send you a recipe that deletes the duplicate when things like that happen...

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-02-27 Thread David Guntner
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: AND PLEASE STOP HITTING REPLY ALL - I DON'T NEED TWO COPIES OF EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTINGS - REPLY TO THE LIST, ONLY If you're using Procmail to filter your E-Mail, I can send you

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-03-01 Thread David Guntner
Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Anyway, the recipe is dirt simple. ... # Duplicate Suppression. :0Whc: $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache.lock | $FORMAIL -D 8192 $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache # Take out the Trash. :0 a: /dev/null That's all

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-03-02 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 00:35:35 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: David Guntner wrote: Anyway, the recipe is dirt simple. ... # Duplicate Suppression. :0Whc: $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache.lock | $FORMAIL -D 8192 $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache # Take out the Trash

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-03-02 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 09:20:14 -0800, David Guntner wrote: Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: And face it, the scenario you describe above is not one I (or a number of other people) are likely to run into all that often. Possible, sure. Probable

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

2013-03-02 Thread David Guntner
Richard Hector grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 03/03/13 10:30, David Guntner wrote: I've worked at places where the attitude of management was along the lines of, If you're going to come to me with a complaint about the way something is being done, provide a possible solution. Otherwise I

Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread David Guntner
I've just finally gotten to upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (and am still doing the cleanup of various kinks, etc.), and it would appear that php5-suhosin has gone missing. Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread David Guntner
Claudius Hubig grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Dear David, David Guntner wrote: Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? the functionality of Suhosin was merged into core PHP, hence it is not ‘needed’ anymore and was removed. I doubt that it will be restored. Oh

Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
I don't know if anyone has experienced this, and I freely admit that I don't have a lot of information to go on, so I'm not going to be *too* surprised if nobody has any ideas. :-) However, I'm going to give it a shot; who knows, I might get lucky. grin Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 06:03:13PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I've just finally gotten to upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (and am still doing the cleanup of various kinks, etc.), and it would appear that php5-suhosin has gone missing

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Following up with an addendum: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Now, on my main desktop, I keep two windows always open, one running top and the other tailing the syslog. Top was showing a load in excess of 5.00 (which I think is a bit excessive...) and was gradually going down

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi David, Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive

Re: Reg: Mysql used instead of MariaDB

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
maderios grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 08/04/2013 07:14 AM, Balamurugan wrote: Dear Team, I am a highly admired fan of free software movement and its philosophy. I am having a doubt in Debian 7.1 stable release about MySQL addition. Since MariaDB has become the open source replacement

Wheezy rkhunter hidden process found

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
And the saga continues! :-) In this morning's reports, I found the following notation from rkhunter: Warning: Hidden processes found: HIDDEN Processes Found: 1sysinfo.procs = 519 ps_count = 521 Is this anything I need to be worried about? And how do I go about finding the

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun 04 Aug 2013 at 08:45:19 -0700, David Guntner wrote: I just discovered that the upgrade thoughtfully added anacron back to my system (I removed it from squeeze because my system is used as a server, thus is up 24/7, thus doesn't need anacron). I

Re: Wheezy rkhunter hidden process found

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun 04 Aug 2013 at 09:25:18 -0700, David Guntner wrote: And the saga continues! :-) In this morning's reports, I found the following notation from rkhunter: Warning: Hidden processes found: HIDDEN Processes Found: 1 sysinfo.procs = 519

Re: Wheezy rkhunter hidden process found

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi David, Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 09:25:18 schrieb David Guntner: And the saga continues! :-) In this morning's reports, I found the following notation from rkhunter: Warning: Hidden processes found: HIDDEN Processes Found: 1

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi David! Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 08:31:21 schrieb David Guntner: […] Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy yesterday, I've noticed periodic hangs, where the system seems to just be *seriously* loaded down. It happened again

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Klaus grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 04/08/13 18:19, David Guntner wrote: I'm not typically awake at the time that cron runs all those things, so it will be hard to tell if future run-daily jobs will have as strong of an impact as it might have today. Another opportunity for a little plug

Re: Php5 question

2013-08-06 Thread David Guntner
John W. Foster grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Im seeing this type of error in several situations on both my machines on the remote servers that I work with. Any way to get rid of this error message. It does not seem to be a fatal issue, just annoying. And what error is that...? --Dave

Re: Php5 question

2013-08-06 Thread David Guntner
John W. Foster grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 15:36 -0700, David Guntner wrote: John W. Foster grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Im seeing this type of error in several situations on both my machines on the remote servers that I work with. Any way to get rid of this error

Re: fax over IP

2013-08-07 Thread David Guntner
J B grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks a lot :-) But I lack Asterisk/pbx Is there any online free fax server available so that we can install the client in our laptop and communicate with the server ? Suggestion is very much welcome. First suggestion: Please don't top-post in

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread David Guntner
cletusjenkins grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just recently discovered the amazing feature of not over-charging batteries. Funny... my laptop is a Samsung that I've had for a few years now, and it has a feature under

Re: owncloud no longer in wheezy

2013-08-09 Thread David Guntner
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Does it need to be in backports? That's the preferred location, AFAIK. I think a co-worker has installed it from Sid. I think backports are just created for packages that are not installable from Sid. According to the Backports page at

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