Re: Which file system am I using?

2003-11-19 Thread M.W. Chang
should it be mount? Ken Moffat wrote: What command can I issue to see what file system I am running on a linux partition? cfdisk -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^12:44pm up 2 days, 17:39, 1 user, load

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread M.W. Chang
did you train the filter by flagging all those slipped messages as junk? iF you just delete them, the filter would not be improved! I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. And have been somewhat disappointed in the filters. It catches alot of the junk right

what does these mean?

2003-11-15 Thread M.W. Chang
- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 554 cm61-10-50-59.hkcable.com.hk[61.10.50.59]: Client host rejected: Host rejected because of spam it sent.) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to kiezmar.lodz.tpsa.pl.:

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread M.W. Chang
I had that problem with spam-assassin' Bayesian filter. I actually tried using the Junk folder of mozilla to train SA (sa-learn --mbox --spam Junk). Until now, there are still some Chinese junk messages passing through the sanity check of SA. Michael Hipp wrote: Yes. I always hit the 'Junk'

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception. It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the

tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2? `bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^9:44pm up 4 days, 10:37, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.07, 1.06

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
Even COL 3.1 doesn't have the -j and --bzip option. I will use the bzcat2 | tar - method. thanks. # tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 Yup. I'm running various SuSE distributions from 8.1-9.0 and they all have this option. My only remaining Caldera box (eD2.4), however, does not. It appears to have been

sendmail errs after upgrading to clamav-0.65

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
I upgraded from clamav-0.60 to clamav-0.65. When I tried the clamav-milter using `cat test1 | mail root`, I sae these entries in /var/log/mail Nov 15 13:33:27 server sendmail[31734]: hAF5XRdP031734: hAF5XRdQ031734: DSN: User unknown Nov 15 13:33:27 server sendmail[31714]: hAF5XP2h031714: Losing

spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-11 Thread M.W. Chang
have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner? I wonder where SA stores her rules. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^6:06pm up 1 day, 6:59, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.04, 1.01

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-11 Thread M.W. Chang
sorry, I found it in the doc. it's in users' home directories or be specified by bayes_path in site config file local.cf. M.W. Chang wrote: have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner? I wonder where SA stores her rules. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
what does textmaker do? dep wrote: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the product (though if it were $200 it would be

sendmail.mc macro

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
what is the m4 macro name for this sendmail.cf option? O MaxMessageSize=200 -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^1:24am up 1 day, 9:30, 0 users, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.00

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^1:28am up 1 day, 9:34, 0 users,

tar vs cp

2003-11-01 Thread M.W. Chang
It's from a how-to on converting a root partition to xfs. what does the following command do? mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt cd / tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -) can I use cp -a to achieve what the tar did? -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \

Re: Acroread: Why it won't open documents

2003-11-01 Thread M.W. Chang
does one need to pay Lindows to access her warehouse? I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It wouldn't open valid pdf documents or items linked on the internet. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\

Re: tar vs cp

2003-11-01 Thread M.W. Chang
it's the - that I didn't understand. thanks. so tar will always back up the permissions and ownership with c ? tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -) Invoke tar on the current directory (.) without recursing outside of the current directory's file system (l) and verbosely (v) create (c) an

Re: xfs_check permission denied.

2003-10-26 Thread M.W. Chang
thanks. I figured out another solution: boot into single-user mode. what's the password for root? knoppix? No, it is a randomly generated password. If you switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-Fn) you'll find that root is logged in (default). You can change the password or just do your thing. --

Re: gcc-3.2.1 and htdig-3.1.6

2003-10-25 Thread M.W. Chang
strange. it worked this morning. I couldn't get through the configure part yesterday night, with the libstdc++ missing error. anyway, thanks. Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: I updated the gcc to 3.2.1 (following the gcc notes). When I tried to compiled htdig

xfs_check permission denied.

2003-10-25 Thread M.W. Chang
I booted my system with Knoppix 3.3 and attempted to xfs_check a xfs partition on the harddisk. it reported an error permission denied. what could possibly caused that? -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22 ^ ^

Re: xfs_check permission denied.

2003-10-25 Thread M.W. Chang
I supposed the drive shouldn't be mounted when doing checking. that's how ext2's file fsck works. Michael Hipp wrote: M.W. Chang wrote: I booted my system with Knoppix 3.3 and attempted to xfs_check a xfs partition on the harddisk. it reported an error permission denied. what could

Re: the irc channel

2003-10-24 Thread M.W. Chang
in that case, the corresponding linux-sxs webpage needs to be updated. James Conner wrote: Try irc.freenode.net it was changed a while ago. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22 ^ ^8:56pm up 2 days, 8:00, 1 user,

gcc-3.2.1 and htdig-3.1.6

2003-10-24 Thread M.W. Chang
I updated the gcc to 3.2.1 (following the gcc notes). When I tried to compiled htdig, it complained about missing libstdc++ libraries. How could that be possible? I checked that the gcc source tree had a subdirectory libstdc++. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \

database of rcs and rpm

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
in openlinux, rpm-3.0.6 uses /var/lib/rpm to store her databases. what about rcs-5.7? and does it apply to other distro? -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22 ^ ^12:36am up 1 day, 11:40, 1 user, load average: 1.00,

Re: database of rcs and rpm

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
in openlinux, rpm-3.0.6 uses /var/lib/rpm to store her databases. what about rcs-5.7? what does rcs have to do with this? I want to know the global location of the database files used by rcs. for backup purposes. and does it apply to other distro? Does what apply to other distros? I

Re: database of rcs and rpm

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
that shoudl be covered when I backup /home/* RCS doesn't use central databases, but an RCS directory under each directory where RCS is used. where is the CVSROOT? what did you mean by one or more? CVS uses one or more CVSROOT directories. The CVSROOT for any directory containing files

the irc channel

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
server down? or is it my fault? ??? Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.openprojects.net [refnum 82] ??? Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.openprojects.net: No such file or directory ??? Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.openprojects.net [refnum 82] ??? Unable to

where is the Compiling gcc step

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
I could no longer find it where is it now? Original Message Subject: Re: Compiling gcc Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:55:32 +0800 From: m.w.chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Home with Linux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: sxs.lists.linux-users

Re: AOL fixes the Windows Messenger Service popup spam problem

2003-10-23 Thread M.W. Chang
you only need to reach the control panel - msn messenger, and turn the whole thing off. there shouldn't be any need for a special tool. For non-AOL users, here is a free utility for turning off and on the Windows Messenger Service: http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm -- .~.

Re: Set system date time

2003-10-15 Thread M.W. Chang
search for timekeeping in the site. I agree that the article was hidden. :) Rick Sivernell wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:50:34 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dont' miss the step-by-step article on setting system time. Many thanks for reply. dl ntp rdate now

Re: Set system date time

2003-10-14 Thread M.W. Chang
dont' miss the step-by-step article on setting system time. Many thanks for reply. dl ntp rdate now -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22 ^ ^8:50pm up 5 days, 8:41, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

sendmail relay problem

2003-10-13 Thread M.W. Chang
i have set FEATURE(relay_unresolvable_domains) in my config.mc. why I still got the following error when I tried email as root from my local domain which is not registered? - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - (reason: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of

Re: error compiling lilo from source

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
I missed the long thread. I guess I should try older versions. I am still using the old glibc-2.2.1 that came with COL 3.1 Net Llama! wrote: probe.c:250:1: directives may not be used inside a macro argument probe.c:249:15: unterminated argument list invoking macro printf probe.c: In function

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
are these options available from make menuconfig? James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains the above settings which is fine what your problem is -- .~.Might, Courage,

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
forget it. I found it. M.W. Chang wrote: are these options available from make menuconfig? James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains the above settings which is fine what your

Re: strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
I found the reason. it's the apache-toolbox that created a redhat directory in /usr/src. checkinstall's script scanned the redhat directory first before OpenLInux. I removed the directory and everything is fine now. M.W. Chang wrote: I don't have the error with other packages. that's really

about building sendmail from source

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
step 7.Build the sendmail daemon # cd sendmail # if [ ! -e /usr/share/man ] ; then ln -s /usr/man /usr/share/man; fi # sh Build -f /etc/mail/site.config.m4 sh Build install * you should see '-DMILTER' periodically during the compile step 10.The supporting tools are now built and installed * cd

error compiling lilo from source

2003-10-08 Thread M.W. Chang
what did I miss? is there a how-to on this? cc -c -O2 -Wall -g -DLILO=0x489b `( if [ -r $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines ]; then cat $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines; else echo -DBDATA -DDSECS=3 -DEVMS -DIGNORECASE -DLVM -DONE_SHOT -DPASS160 -DREISERFS -DREWRITE_TABLE -DSOLO_CHAIN -DVERSION -DVIRTUAL; fi ) | sed

error compiling samba-3.0.0

2003-09-28 Thread M.W. Chang
anyone successfully compiled it from source? anyone got similar problem? I hit an error: Linking bin/smbd tdb/tdbutil.o: In function `tdb_search_keys': /usr/src/samba-3.0.0/source/tdb/tdbutil.c:791: undefined reference to `ap_fnmatch' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [bin/smbd]

strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-09-27 Thread M.W. Chang
I was trying to install Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60 from tarball. Perl Makefile.PL make checkinstall I ran into this error: Installing RPM package... FAILED! *** Failed to install the package Do you want to see the log file? [y]: error: cannot open file

Re: strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-09-27 Thread M.W. Chang
I don't have the error with other packages. that's really strange Federico Voges wrote: error: cannot open file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-1.i386. rpm: No such file or directory why would there be a redhat word when I am using caldera OpenLinux system? Nope, it's just

Re: Interesting Read

2003-02-22 Thread M.W. Chang
I had no idea why the writer made this comment: How a ragtag band of software geeks is threatening Sun and Microsoft--and turning the computer world upside down what was turning upside down? ragtag band of geeks? Iraj Medifar wrote: Hi all: I figure most every Linux user should find this to

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread M.W. Chang
I have deleted apache from my linux server. will not bother to look back. Ken Moffat wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. Ah, never mind, I found a page describing this functionality.

Re: OT a gd jb

2003-02-08 Thread M.W. Chang
hahaano more aeiou? ;) % at lst i dd ystrd. ;-) % From: Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] % f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.20 ^ ^11:30am up 16 days, 4:35,

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread M.W. Chang
that's a 1024-bit kit. it's not supposed to be that easy to hack it, right? I never consider yahoo to be safe. :P email account to be secure I hope. Any wannabe script kiddie will crack that account in less than a minute, grabbing your private key, checking the header for the originating ip

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
I haven't received rthe Jan 2003 issue, yet... thx. Jack Berger wrote: Here's one possible candidate. Haven't tried it myself but the claim is that it can do what you want. Power Sessions with Screen http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6340 -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: mirror for knoppix

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
can a search on google.com for knoppix 3.1 download help? I forgot where I got the iso... Keith Morse wrote: Just wondering if list members have a recommendation for a knoppix mirror? -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
gcc is surely simpler than glibc... oh.. I mixed them up in my reply to Mr. Hunley... I was talking about glibc, not gcc.. sorry, Doug. Net Llama! wrote: On 01/07/03 11:28, Douglas J Hunley wrote: the gcc_notes are my content from hunley.homeip.net . they are not part of the site (yet) How

Re: [gentoo] installation

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
I havne't started the installation. not until this weekend. in the meantime, I will read through the installation procedure carefully. Why a spare machine? The network set up in the gentoo install is fine. At least if you are using ethernet. I do not know about modems. Does the gentoo network

Re: updating openssl

2003-01-06 Thread M.W. Chang
I was just wondering about the possiblity of effortless upgrade when the core of all these security compoennts was changed. wonder how the military handles this kind of changes... :) stayer wrote: I've found that its best to recompile those applications, especially openssh whenever openssl is

Re: Happy Christmas

2002-12-25 Thread M.W. Chang
I guess linux is a better santa than M$, being open-sourced and freely available... :) Ken Moffat wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, list, it's Christmas here in Pittsburgh, so I'm allowed to wish you all a happy Christmas and to pray God's blessings on you and yours. Here's my wish for

Re: fetchmail error

2002-12-13 Thread M.W. Chang
I posted my question in comp.mail.sendmail. one suggested me to add procmail to fetchmail. another suggested using getmail. but before I got their reply, I used OE to pull them out... I guess M$ OE breeded a generation of usres to use badly formatted email addressses. I guess Asians don't like

[Fwd: [OT] VFP7 will run on Linux]

2002-12-13 Thread M.W. Chang
Original Message Subject: [OT] VFP7 will run on Linux Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:45:33 -0800 From: Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of ProFox [EMAIL PROTECTED] This question has come up before, so I wanted to post my recent

Re: mount image and archive files

2002-12-02 Thread M.W. Chang
late reply: mounting a stacker volumn may be a bad idea. but moutning archives (zip, rar, ...), nrg, cue+bin if not ccd are not. who would know whether they have interest in linux in the future? They don't get popular in WIndow$ without a reason. Net Llama! wrote: Final winner of what? a booby

Re: The Phoenix Project

2002-09-29 Thread M.W. Chang
cannot agree more. I believe there quite a number of users out there need to use IE + Mozilla mail-news. :) OE is such a joke IMO, they need a second group to spin-off the mail/news client and fix that, too... -- .~.Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In Linux we trust. / v \

Re: symbol count in a text file [iptables log]

2002-09-21 Thread M.W. Chang
I could figure this one out. but how to list all possible combinations of DPT= in a text file? There should be an existing shell util that will do something like this: select distinct DPT=* from textfile then I need to direct each combination into a file and apply wc on it to produce a

Re: FW: Unix Tip: BE A GURU - RTFM

2002-07-18 Thread M.W. Chang
I agree, but only if the manual was written to be read by others. I have seen so many crappy documentation when M$ decided to monopolize market with M$ Office. DON'T BE LAZY! By the Way, for those that don't know by now. RTFM = READ THE F^CKING MANUAL -- Linux 2.4.18 up 58 days, 1

Re: where's les?

2002-07-16 Thread M.W. Chang
frankly, was there anyone trying to get their way into caldera anagement back then? I bought COL 1.3 because I saw Ray Noorda's name and I wanted to learn more about linux. I guess Mr. Noorda may have done things differently... to join. I'll jog your memory. He said that he wasn't about to