Re: procmail and sendmail

2002-02-23 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: An even nicer solution is to add mailscanner. It integrates with spamassassin and will also scan all mail from viruses using a variety of virus scanners. got a homepage

Re: Yahoo and Kmail

2002-03-10 Thread Gerry Doris
Follow the instructions in this url. It assumes you're using sendmail as your mta. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/sendmail_smtp_auth.html Gerry Yahoo have changed their smtp so that it must be 'authenticated'. I am able to send via Netscape, but Kmail falls over with a reject response

Re: POP before SMTP

2002-03-18 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Bill Day spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: as in? I still havent quite got SMTP with sendmail working, if I use my as in anyone who sucessfully pops first (id and password) can send through my sendmail. right now, I can

Re: procmail, day 2

2002-04-05 Thread Gerry Doris
I don't believe procmail cares where you put the log files as long as you can write to the directory. Change the path of the lock files to a directory where the user running procmail can write. does sendmail guarantee that only one procmail will be active at any time when there is a

Re: procmail, day 2

2002-04-06 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, [x-user-defined] toylet.linux[¤pª±·N] wrote: when I use /etc/procmailrc to start procmail, what user does it assume? root or ... whatever? seems that it's not root... I know the case when it was started in /home/user Well, I don't pretend to be a procmail guru by any

Re: Red Hat 7.2 on HP Netserver E800

2002-04-11 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Zoki wrote: html *** I will be installing RH 7.x on this machine without knowing what to think of the following: According to several colleagues HP seems to use the MBR for keeping hardware quot;specific dataquot; (?) in there which accordingly does not allow to write

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Gerry Doris
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, M.W.Chang managed to emit: asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) But at least with marriage, you have the possibility of divorce or annulment. Kurt -- Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this

Re: Klez at it again

2002-05-02 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 2 May 2002, David A. Bandel wrote: Folks, Please review the mail headers, someone on one of these lists has Klez. This is not really bounce message: 1. No Windoze here (much less Outhouse) 2. I don't think I know this e-mail address The Return-Path has most certainly been

Re: news

2002-05-09 Thread Gerry Doris
Greetings, On Thu, 9 May 2002, dep wrote: http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71003%2C00.html?nlid=AM Gee... $15 Million in revenue is a Bad Thing(tm)??? Not the $18 Million they expected. What sort of P/E does the $15 mil represent? I would have to

Re: news

2002-05-09 Thread Gerry Doris
On May 9 Gerry Doris was heard saying: snip -I didn't read the full context but if they predicted they would make $18M -and they only made $15 then they were off their own projections by 16.7% *** On the other hand it is ridiculous the system works this way: After all they ** made

Re: news

2002-05-09 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thursday 09 May 2002 19:13 pm, dep wrote: fyi, we did a little interview with ransom love an hour or so ago; it's up now: Sorry, but I don't buy the 'tough market' as being the sole reason for their demise. I still 'lurk' on the Caldera List and I cringe everytime I see someone

Re: news

2002-05-10 Thread Gerry Doris
On May 9 Net Llama! was heard saying: snip - *** On the other hand it is ridiculous the system works this way: - After all they ** made ** $15M! - -I think you missed the point. They didn't 'make' anything. The spent -more than they took in. THey 'lost' money. *** Having followed

Re: error in /var/log/mail

2002-06-04 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, m.w.chang wrote: google.com didn't help me much... seems that it's a known problem of sendmail... Jun 4 10:32:32 server sendmail[2437]: g542UVL02435: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input Jun 4 10:32:34 server sendmail[2443]: g542UWL02441:

Re: Virus Scanning for Linux Email Downloader

2002-06-23 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Michael Hipp wrote: I will be configuring a Linux box to download email from the ISP for a bunch of Outhouse clients. Can anyone recommend a virus scanner that would catch anyting coming into the Linux box before it can be downloaded to the clients? Can I layer

Re: Virus Scanning for Linux Email Downloader

2002-06-24 Thread Gerry Doris
Thanks for the pointers to mailscanner and amavis.org. I'll check them out. Are these free av products as prompt thorough about updating virus definitions as, say, Norton McAfee? Seems like it would be a nearly impossible job without significant full-time staff. Michael Mailscanner

re: virus scanning for linux email downloader

2002-06-26 Thread Gerry Doris
Michael: I use MIMEDefang to process email on the Linux StepByStep site as well as my other sites. You can get it from www.roaringpenguin.org/mimedefang . It then calls SpamAssassin, which calls Vipuls Razor (v1 !!) and then calls File::Scan to check for viruses. You could also

Re: virus scanning for linux email downloader

2002-06-26 Thread Gerry Doris
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: no changes to sendmail for mimedefang either. well, a tweak when you build your sendmail.cf, but that is true of all milter-based apps - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep -

Re: virus scanning for linux email downloader

2002-06-27 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Anyone know if these work with exim? I have a feeling I would have to give up my favorite MTA to get this capability. Surely that would not be the case. I will have to investigate. mailscanner works with exim. Gerry -- The lyfe so short,

RE: virus scanning for linux email downloader

2002-06-27 Thread Gerry Doris
Mr. Witowski, I'm not at all sure what is impaled in your ass, but kindly remove it, and then return to the playground. On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: Perhaps not. You're just a dick and you repulse people. Never said anything about InstallShield...you did. I also

Re: Mail server issues

2002-06-27 Thread Gerry Doris
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: I am getting the following error in my fetchmail log file upon trying to get mail from a POP3/IMAP account: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail -d %Tfetc hmail:

Re: Updated Step

2002-09-28 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Nobody wrote: M.W. Chang via Gerry Gorris has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/smailauth.html to incorporate the following: Updated to clean up HTML formatting Who's Gerry Gorris -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer

Re: RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]

2002-10-01 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Net Llama! wrote: Zoki News wrote: *** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... RH-5 was a long long time ago. And some of us would prefer to forget that RH5 ever existed :)

Re: OT sendmail guru help needed

2002-10-18 Thread Gerry Doris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This one has me stumped, hopefully one of you gurus can figure it out. Here at work, we are trying to implement a sendmail test system to prove its capabilities to mgmt. We are going to be allowed to have a small group of specify email

Re: OT sendmail guru help needed

2002-10-18 Thread Gerry Doris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Perhaps I'm missing something but I think you should be looking at virtusertable. I'm assuming that all mail is going to come through the linux sendmail box. I believe you can

Re: auth smtp and pam.d

2002-10-17 Thread Gerry Doris
I will try recompile linux-pam myself and check if it got this pam_stack.so. maybe only the doc was outdated... Net Llama! wrote: Its part of Redhat's PAM. I have no idea about any other distro. BTW, if you're using a new version of sendmail then the authentication instructions in the sxs

Re: this is pretty cool

2002-11-26 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, David A. Bandel wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:05:45 -0800 begin Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On 11/25/02 19:50, dep wrote: i was just reading some stuff rick moen wrote in connection with wordperfect for linux -- he and i were discussing describe on

Re: authenticating to sendmail?

2002-12-23 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: anyone got any experience or docs or pointers to docs showing how to configure sendmail to require a valid id and password before you can SMTP through it? I'm *not* talking about POP before SMTP. I'm talking about 'my server requires authentication

Re: authenticating to sendmail?

2002-12-23 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: anyone got any experience or docs or pointers to docs showing how to configure sendmail to require a valid id and password before you can SMTP through it? I'm *not* talking about POP before SMTP. I'm talking about 'my server requires authentication

Re: authenticating to sendmail?

2002-12-24 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: 1. sendmail no longer runs as root. The result is that it can no longer access the /etc/sasldb file where the sasl username/passwords

Re: ATI AIW RADEON users

2002-12-31 Thread Gerry Doris
think about helping. I guess I'm skeptical that ATI's new linux drivers are as good as Nvidia's. Afterall, Nvidia's code has been around for many iterations and new versions are released in sync with their Windows versions. They seem to know what they're doing in linux. -- Gerry Doris [EMAIL

Re: another small problem with networking

2003-01-05 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Bill Day wrote: I know IPChains are old and IPTables latest. but PMFirewall is an awsome little firewall script that does everything you ask. You may have to modify the scritps after its installed do play certain games through the network but other than that it works

mp3 volume question

2003-01-27 Thread Gerry Doris
All this talk of writing CD's reminded of an old problem that I've never been able to resolve. When I download mp3 songs from the internet they show up with different volume settings. After I burn them to CD (and yes, I am using linux to burn them!!!) and play them I end up changing the volume

No sound from audio cd's

2003-01-29 Thread Gerry Doris
I've been knocking my head against the screen for the last couple of days. I can't play audio cd's no matter what I do. I can burn audio cd's successfully. I can play both wav and mp3 files from disk. However, when I try and play directly from cd everything looks ok but there isn't any

Re: No sound from audio cd's

2003-01-29 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: Not trying to be facetious here but are you sure that there is a audio cable running from you cd-rom to your sound card? That would be my first guess. --Tom Wilson Yes, there is an audio cable connected. I even booted back to win98 (it's been a

Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed

2003-01-29 Thread Gerry Doris
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 1/29/2003 12:16 PM, someone claiming to be Gerry Doris wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: Not trying to be facetious here but are you sure that there is a audio cable running from you cd-rom to your sound card? That would be my

Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed

2003-01-29 Thread Gerry Doris
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: Hmmm, this is weird. I now have it working. If I use kmix I can get it to work. However, if I use the gnome mixer (the one on the sound menu called Volume Control) it kills the sound as soon as it opens

Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed

2003-01-29 Thread Gerry Doris
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: I really don't think RH put much effort into getting KDE working right under BlueCurve. If you're gonna run one of the RH stock desktops, use Redhat admitted it. In one interview from LinuxWorld last week, (i

Re: No sound from audio cd's

2003-02-01 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 09:20, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Do you have the cable hooked up from the CD Drive to your sound card? On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:47:08 -0500 (EST) Gerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been knocking my head against the screen for the last couple of days. I

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-04 Thread Gerry Doris
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Keith Antoine wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 22:52, dep wrote: what is surprising is the continued arrogance of nasa in having never pondered having to rescue people from a crippled shuttle. If memory serves me no space agency of any description has, or appeared

Re: RPM query error

2003-02-05 Thread Gerry Doris
Yep, RH8. I was planning on searching google, usually do on these things, but chose to post on list first. Thanks for the links, though. Looks like it's the same old rpm problem I've experienced before (different symptom, though). Regards, Tim On 2/5/2003 9:02 AM, someone claiming to be

Re: RPM query error

2003-02-05 Thread Gerry Doris
snip... I posted several times on the redhat psyche list that I was getting these exact same problems but never received a reply. I would also fix it temporarily by doing an rpm --rebuilddb. I even ended up doing a complete fresh install and after a week the problem starting showing up

How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-10 Thread Gerry Doris
I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3. I thought all I had to do was use tune2fs to convert the partitions to ext2 and then modify fstab to indicate the partitions were ext2. Well, that ended in a kernel panic with an

Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-10 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3. From the EXT3.FAQ Q: How do I convert my ext3 partition back to ext2? Actually there is only little

Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-10 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On 02/10/03 19:04, Gerry Doris wrote: This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive. Problem is that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3. that's what

Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-11 Thread Gerry Doris
This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it. This is more in the line of inquiring minds want to know. I'd still be hesitant to use it. You could still technically go with dd, but you'd have to use some fancy partition extending tricks. I guess it all comes down to

Why doesn't rdev work?

2003-02-13 Thread Gerry Doris
I've been playing with rdev on a Redhat 8.0 system. If I create a bootdisk using mkbootdisk it works just fine. Running rdev correctly gives the result of /dev/hda3 (ie. root is on /dev/hda3) If I run rdev /dev/fd0 on the newly created bootdisk. I don't get /dev/hda3 like I was expecting.

News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge!

2003-03-11 Thread Gerry Doris
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/212241 News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge! (Score:5, Funny) by Newer Guy (520108) on Monday March 10, @06:03PM (#5481084) In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix. The merged company - to be

Re: OT We won't back down...

2003-03-29 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Keith Antoine wrote: At 11:54 AM 28/03/2003 +0930, you wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:27, Collins Richey wrote: Some of us support the troops. Knowing this is waay off-topic :) I think the troops deserve our 110% support. It is the leaders of the relevant

Re: gforce2 (MX400) with nvida drivers 1.0-4349

2003-04-06 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Collins Richey wrote: I've just installed the nvidia drivers on my Slack 9.0 system, and the only way it will work is to disable AGP. It craps out totally with either the kernel agp module or the nvidia agp module, but it works ok with agp disabled. I'm on a Aazza

Re: Slightly OTHappy Sys Admin Appreciation Day

2003-07-25 Thread Gerry Doris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 June 25 (today) is the annual Sys Admin Appreciation Day. I'd just like to take a moment to tip my hat to my fellow admins on this list. I'll be throwing down a cold beverage in your honor later tonite! - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at

samba error messages???

2003-07-26 Thread Gerry Doris
I'm seeing the following error message about every 30 min in /var/log/samba/log/smbd. This is on a RH 9 system that was recently upgraded from 7.3. I'm not sure if they were appearing before or not? Any idea what this is trying to tell me??? [2003/07/26 09:31:27, 0]

Re: Open Antivirus

2003-08-01 Thread Gerry Doris
While we are discussing email and spam, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with CLAM anti-virus, found at http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ ? I'm looking at anti-virus solutions for a Linux mailserver now that Microsoft has bought RAV and is in the process of shutting it down. Gary

Re: Open Antivirus

2003-08-03 Thread Gerry Doris
On 3 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:34, Gerry Doris wrote: Actually, I use MailScanner and have installed both F-Prot and ClamAV. F-Prot is free for non-commercial users. MailScanner installs seamlessly requiring no changes to sendmail (also works

Re: odd email. Maybe OT, but not sure.

2003-08-14 Thread Gerry Doris
On 9 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Has anyone been getting an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where your.domain is your domain)? It has text like this: Hello there, I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address. This email address will be

Re: [GWAVA:b1cvwn12] Subject filter message notification

2003-08-18 Thread Gerry Doris
I thought I had seen a lot of stupid filters but... Image mistaking an Adaptec SCSI driver for triple rated x porn! Hmmm, my list of /dev/null senders is growing and growing! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-24 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Bob Hemus wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of

Re: ADMIN: please don't copy the bounce address!

2003-08-27 Thread Gerry Doris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some people's MUAs apparently sometimes include the list list bounce address on a 'Reply-All' (the address would be listname[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Please check that your MUA is not doing this. Anything sent to the bounce address is marked against

Re: Ideas for Mail and Calendaring for 50,000 Users

2003-08-27 Thread Gerry Doris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wunder wrote: [...] | | phpgroupware. | http://phpgroupware.com | | | Do you use it? I've looked at it for our small network here, but haven't | tried to implement it yet. | | Tim Yes. We have around 2000 users and it works quite

Is this really necessary - WARNING VIRUS FOUND!!!

2003-08-31 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, mail daemon wrote: A message sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 7:07:31 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: Details Did not reach it's recipient(s) because the following virus was found: Virus found in

What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F

2003-08-31 Thread Gerry Doris
I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members that they received infected messages. 1. isn't the list screening for virii? 2. can't you screen out all these damn virus received notification? They're worse

Re: What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F

2003-08-31 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members that they received infected messages. Most of the e-mail worms that attack

Re: What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F

2003-08-31 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2003 1:32 pm, someone claiming to be Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members

linux-users list passing on virii

2003-09-01 Thread Gerry Doris
For what it's worth I sent a virus passed to me through this mailing list to Antony Stone on the MailScanner list. He is running several virus scanners. He confirmed that ClamAV doesn't find this virus. In fact, here's the pertinent part of his reply message. It got picked up as Sobig.F by

Re: email attack

2003-09-20 Thread Gerry Doris
On 20 Sep 2003, burns wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:10, dep wrote: New Category 3 Worm/Virus: Swen.A (Yes, that's 'news' backwards) http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup. Also: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#swena Looks like it could be a

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Gerry Doris
Shouldn't this thread be in linux-general? -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users