Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Ric Otte wrote: I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, ... Why is that? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-09-30 Thread Ric Otte
I am running Lenny with exim4 and one user would like all email to him to be rejected. I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, and wonder if there is an easy way to do this with exim. This user basically wants no mail to be able to be delivered to his account. Any

IMAP one way backup

2009-02-20 Thread Ric Otte
The IMAP server where I work is not very reliable, and I would like to back it up each day of the week to a different directory, using cron. Although offlineimap does not provide 1-way backup, I set up offlineimap to do something like this. Basically I have an offlineimaprc file for each

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-29 Thread Ric Otte
On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: see the check_subscribed option in the manual (imap_check_subscribed, imap_list_subscribed may also be what you want) less /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz hth martin I tried both of these. Now when I type 'c' I get a suggested mailbox

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-29 Thread Ric Otte
On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:16:47AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: I tried both of these. Now when I type 'c' I get a suggested mailbox to go to (one with new mail), but if I type a '?' I am given a list of mailboxes, such as: 1 IMAP

Re: looking for mac-to-linux backup recommendations - OT

2007-05-02 Thread Ric Otte
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:15:29PM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 1-mei-2007, at 17:09, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I have a Mac on my desk at home, and I'm looking for a way to back it up to one of the Linux servers I have sitting in a data center. Any suggestions as to what

migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

2007-04-26 Thread Ric Otte
I wanted to migrate a sid install from a partition on a sata drive to a partition on another ide drive. I used dd to copy the partion, changed fstab, and tried to boot into the system on the ide drive. Grub recognizes the ide drive, begins to boot, but after several (maybe 7 or 8 screens) of

Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

2007-04-26 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:46:36PM +, David Claughton wrote: Ric Otte ric at otte.ucsc.edu writes: Is there any place besides /etc/fstab that indicates what partitions to mount? I changed /etc/mtab, but that didn't help, and can't find any other places that might be diverting

Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

2007-04-26 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:25:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:53:38 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: I wanted to migrate a sid install from a partition on a sata drive to a partition on another ide drive. I used dd to copy the partion, changed fstab, and tried to boot

Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

2007-04-26 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Are you sure you made the necessary changes to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg and /etc/fstab before calling yaird? You can extract the relevant file, init, from the new initrd like this: zcat new-initrd-name | cpio -i init

Re: migrate / to new partition; SOLVED

2007-04-26 Thread Ric Otte
I finally was able to boot into the copied partition. I found that /dev/console did not exist, so I created it and changed permissions on /dev/null. Then I'm able to boot. I still don't know why it wasn't copied over, but it's fixed now. Thanks for the help, Ric signature.asc Description:

moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda10 to hdc2, using dd. Everything looks fine in hdc2, and when I

hardware problem? continual errors with drive and kernel

2007-02-09 Thread Ric Otte
I have a AMD XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard and 512M of ram. Recently I noticed many errors in the log files, everything from kernel oops to errors on the hard drive. I replaced the drive with a new one and did a fresh install of etch. I still got lots of errors, especially hard

Re: editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

2006-09-02 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm playing with the filters in audacity and rezound; they seem to help a bit, but I still haven't been able to make the voices understandable. If anyone is interested, I placed a 4 second sample of the voices at http://people.ucsc.edu/~otte/sound.test.aiff Thanks

editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

2006-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I have a recording of a wedding at a beach, but it is very difficult to make out the words because of the noise due to the waves and wind. I am looking for suggestions about how to begin editing the file to remove the noise and retain the voices. I've looked a bit at rezound and audacity,

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-23 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:50:48AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Ric Otte wrote: Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one has lots of songs on a mac in .m4a format and wants to convert them all to FLAC; is there a simple command that would do this for all songs

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-22 Thread Ric Otte
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Another reason to use FLAC: it uses the same tag structure as Ogg Vorbis. And when using oggenc to convert FLAC to Vorbis, all tags are preserved. Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one has lots of

X broke in sid after dist-upgrade

2006-06-22 Thread Ric Otte
I recently did a dist-upgrade on my sid machine and no longer have a working X system. When I try to startx, the screen will go dark, and then in a few seconds I'll be returned to the console. (interestingly, if I simply type X, the screen will go grey, the mouse (working) will be a X, but

Re: X broke in sid after dist-upgrade

2006-06-22 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:00:34PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: The font paths have changed for Xorg 7.0. You should change the beginning of all FontPath definitions in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/X11/. The last entry in your log suggests that

Re: photo management and camera download by date SOLVED

2006-05-23 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, Further reading of the manual shows digikam can do this automatically; So far it seems to be working. Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-gnome-terminal in sid

2005-12-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I tried things like: multi-gnome-terminal --font=adobe-helvetica But got the following: The font adobe-helvetica does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) In

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If that's impossible, you should look into offlineimap. Basically, it syncs your local Mail with the IMAP.

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:33:19PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: On 07/10/05, Ric Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto

Using both Mutt and graphical email client with maildir

2005-10-03 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I've been using mutt for several years, and really like it except for when I need to follow a link. I've tried using urlview, but gave up because I often didn't know what the urls were linked to. For example, if I have an email with 50 links, when I call urlview I often have no idea what

Re: Using both Mutt and graphical email client with maildir

2005-10-03 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:30:30PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Antony Gelberg: Not as such, but you could install an IMAP server on the machine, then use Thunderbird (or whatever). That is my advice, too. Setting up Dovecot for that task should't take more than half an hour. It's really

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-13 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:31:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Ric Otte wrote: One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Does tar succeed as well? Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and fsck says everything is fine. One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:35:08AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Ric Otte told: Hi, I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and one ext3. I formatted the hfsplus partion

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:07:44PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of Ric Otte told: [...] I have hfsplus and hfsutils installed, so that isn't the problem. I now wonder if Linux supports reading HFS+ filesystems, but not writing to them

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hmmm, try: $ hpmount /dev/hdc2 *** bla *** blo y enter $ hpumount hpumount: destroy: bli $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS Elimar That gave me the following: hpmount: /dev/hdc2: This is not a HFS+ volume (Unknown

mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-08-31 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and one ext3. I formatted the hfsplus partion on a mac, but when I mount it using mount -thfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS, the partion does not show up being anywhere near 150gb; instead it shows up

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-24 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:51:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote: Hi, I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and ran update-menus. The new

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-24 Thread Ric Otte
To explain my puzzle a bit more, I thought that when I ran update-menus, the script in /etc/menu-menthods/fluxbox would update the fluxbox menus. That is what doesn't appear to be happening. Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-23 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but don't under fluxbox. They don't seem to be listed properly in either

problem with logcheck rules

2004-11-25 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I am running logcheck 1.2.28 but am unable to modify the rules to prevent certain information being mailed to me. I get loads of messages like the following in the System Events section of the email: Nov 24 01:08:01 phil cron(pam_unix)[4763]: session opened for user mail by (uid=0) Nov 24

glxgears slow under 2.6, fast under 2.4

2004-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
Things are very slow for me under 2.6 kernels. Under 2.4.16 I was able to play tuxracer just fine, but under 2.6.6 things are so slow that it is unplayable (a second or so pause between command and action). I ran glxgears under 2.4.16 and got output like: 2430 frames in 5.0 seconds = 486.000

Re: glxgears slow under 2.6, fast under 2.4

2004-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:19:39AM -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: Just a guess, but did you reconfigure X to run at a nice value of 0? The 2.4 kernels ran best when X was niced to -10, but with the 2.6 anticipatory scheduler, it turns out to be a bad thing. Also, check out your /etc/modules

Re: glxgears slow under 2.6, fast under 2.4

2004-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:34:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: Try the suggested fix at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html#nodri (I know you're not using an nVidia card, but the fix described there is generic). This was quite interesting, but didn't work.

Re: glxgears slow under 2.6, fast under 2.4: FIXED

2004-10-07 Thread Ric Otte
I recompiled the kernel, compiling in AGP_VIA directly and not as a module. This then turned on direct rendering when I booted up, and glxgears is about twice as fast: glxgears 1900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 380.000 FPS 2266 frames in 5.0 seconds = 453.200 FPS 2267 frames in 5.0

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Ric Otte
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I had a similar problem It turns out that my ISP had some spam messages with a single . on a line by itself. Instead of escaping these, it was transmitting then to me - which was causing fetchmail to think it had got to end of

can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Ric Otte
If I allow a large number of emails to build up at my email provider, I have problems downloading them. When I run fetchmail, I can download 100-200 of them, but then I get a message such as the following: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:195 of 399 (10332 octets) flushed reading message

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:14:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi rick, I have fetchmail run at intervals (like every 10 minutes) (CRON can do this) and ask it to download a few email at a time (like with --fetchlimit=20). So, I always get a few emails every once in a while. This approach mail

squirrelmail and apache2-mpm-worker

2004-08-06 Thread Ric Otte
I was going to install squirrelmail and received the message that apache2-mpm-worker would be removed and replaced with apache2-mpm-prefork. I had previously installed apache2-mpm-worker because it was the recommended version of apache2. Does anyone know why squirrelmail won't work with ..worker

after dist-upgrade mutt in reverse video

2004-05-19 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I am running a testing machine and just did a dist-upgrade. This time when I start Mutt from the menus, it shows up in reverse video. Before it looked as if it was being run from rxvt, which is not in reverse video. Now it looks as if it is being run in xterm, which also starts in reverse

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Ric Otte
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will

tar --listed-incremental

2004-02-22 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I'm trying to use tar for incremental backups. After reading what I could find on the web, it looks as if I need to use the --listed-incremental option. With this option tar creates a file that keeps track of the changes. So if (in /home/ric) I type: tar -cvf /mnt/BACKUP1

Re: tar --listed-incremental

2004-02-22 Thread Ric Otte
Sorry, I mistyped. Instead of ..For each incremental backup, I then type: tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP1 --listed-incremental=LIST Instead, I should have typed: tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP2 ..listed-incremental=LIST Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Ric Otte
I recently lost my hard drive, and after restoring, fetchmail does not work. I get the smtp failed for localhost message, and discovered that exim is not running (I can't telnet to localhost 25). Things work fine if I start exim manually (/usr/sbin/exim -bd), or if I do /etc/init.d/inetd restart

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Ric Otte
, hwclock.sh, etc-setserial, hotplug, urandom, networking, umountfs, and halt. Should I also try to type 'update-rc.d NAME defaults' for them? Thanks, Ric On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:32:29AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:44 GMT, Ric Otte penned: I recently lost my hard

X broke after crash, restore, upgrade

2003-10-24 Thread Ric Otte
My hard drive recently died, and after installing a new one, I tried to get things working by first using Mondo to restore my system to the way it was a year ago. That worked fine. I then took a recent list of packages, and did: dpkg --set-selectionsnew.list.of.packages apt-get update

sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem. But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have set in .vimrc). What happens is

Re: sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
Ric Otte: Hi, I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem. But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have set

Re: sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, Well, after trying many different things, I finally got it to work. I put the following line in my .vimrc: au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline I don't know why that solved the problem, and the line: set textwidth=77 in .vimrc didn't work. But at least it is working. Thanks

Re: sed, bash script

2003-09-17 Thread Ric Otte
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: Hi, I would like to run all

sed, bash script

2003-09-16 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I would like to run all of the files in some directories through sed, in order to edit the files. I can do it for individual files by typing: cat filename|sed commandfilename But that requires me to run that command for each file. I was wondering if anyone could 1) give me a reference to a

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-23 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks for all the comments. I'm going to sign up, and this will all be very helpful when I set it up. I think I will ask for the box that is a modem/router/wireless for $50 instead of the free modem, which should then be easy to hook up to my linux machine. Best, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't work. She said

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may stick to less than 137gb to avoid using the adapter card. Ric On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:13:17PM -0600, Lupust wrote: The 2.4.x kernel supports them, but you also have to have either a mainboard with ATA/133 or a ATA/133 adapter card. I am using a 160 on

hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort of patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install it just as I would a normal hard drive?Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

hfs support in 2.4.20

2003-02-11 Thread Ric Otte
I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac). When I type 'make menuconfig' I do not get the option of compiling hfs file support. It has lots of other types of file system support, such as ext3 and

Re: hfs support in 2.4.20

2003-02-11 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks, that did it! Ric On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:50:33PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:14PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote: I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac

changing from mbox to maildir

2003-02-09 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I am wanting to change my mail from mbox format to maildir format (to make it easier to incrementally backup my email using rsync). I don't really understand the differences between MH and maildir, but rather arbitrarily decided to go with maildir. Before I completely screw things up I

cdrecord freezes when burning data

2003-01-29 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I moved a Sony cdburner from my home machine to my office machine (testing), but am now unable to burn data cds. I am able to burn music cds (.wav files) using the command: cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,1,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav To burn a data file I (as root) first type: mkisofs -r -o

Re: procmail slow email delivery

2002-11-10 Thread Ric Otte
Shyamal, Among other very useful things, you wrote: This is the key part. Your mail is being delivered to ric@otte, and I'm guessing this is fetchmail. But otte is not a local domain, so it is being sent to your smart host. My question would be: where exactly did you ask fetcmail to drop your

net connect problem, sleep?

2002-04-15 Thread Ric Otte
I am running Debian 2.2.17 on my office machine connected to a university network. When I'm in my office things work well, and I am connected well to the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not being used, it cannot be pinged from the outside world (it can be pinged when

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-27 Thread Ric Otte
I hadn't known about the /etc/network/interfaces file, and when I fiddled with it, things seem to be fixed. Thanks very much! Ric On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:06:10PM -0500, k l u r t wrote: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 01:24 pm, Ric Otte wrote: Yep, I did mean to write that I want to connect

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread Ric Otte
Yep, I did mean to write that I want to connect to the Internet with ppp, instead of I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp. Basically I'm wanting to use the machine at home instead of my office. I'm sorry for the confusion. SO, if I need to delete the default route to the internet via