On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Michael M. Moore wrote:
So, assuming I'm not interested in a multi-head setup, not connecting to
remote terminals or something, not at all put out by logging in from a
console rather that a pretty screen with flowers and butterflies, nor by
editing .xinitrc if I want to
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
I don't know about NW Computer Support and printers, but The Printer
Place on SE Powell, near 17th, does. And from personal experience, I
know that they will turn away repair work when it's cheaper to buy a new
printer.
I'll second this
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
syslog isn't responsible for cron jobs. crond is. see if it is running.
Er, OK. Mea culpa! Yes, it is:
2895 ?S 0:03 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
you might want to strace cron to see what it is doing.
[r...@salmo ~]# strace /usr/sbin/crond
execve(/usr/sbin/crond, [/usr/sbin/crond], [/* 44 vars */]) = 0 brk(0)
= 0x804d000
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
i meant to strace the running crond. strace -p PID does that. that way
you can see if it is trying to do things.
Ah, so. Nothing going on now, and won't until tonight.
Root's crontab runs because the backups are done each night.
oh! did things
Audacious-1.5.1 is part of the Slackware-12.2 distribution. However, when
I try to start it it segfaults. Running 'ldd audacious' fails because ldd
cannot find a ~/.audacious file or directory. The audacious man page notes
that ~/.config/audacious should have config and gtkrc files as well as a
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
If anyone has suggestions, please pass then on.
Ah, progress! I touched ~/.config/audacious/config, then 'ldd
/usr/bin/audacious'. This tells me I'm missing two libraries:
linux-gate.so.1, and /lib/libsafe.so.2, except the latter exists.
Well
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
logwatch is the standard for rh distros nowadays.
Joe,
Well, that was easy enough. Downloaded the source tarball, executed the
install script, and we should be good to go.
Much grasses,
Rich
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Word Wizard wrote:
I backup the entire system (as root , PWD= /) with the command:
tar cvpjf /home/myname/Archives/total_backup.tar.bz2 /
Unfortunately, WW, I'm not one of those gurus. I've been using BRU (which
is an enhanced tar) for a dozen years and have no problems
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I just spent a few minutes googling on refurbs and didn't find much price
advantage. Where did you get yours? And are there any local stores that
sell refurbs?
I don't recall. It's been several years since I bought it. IIRC, I bought
the 1400
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
So the next part of the saga will continue in a week or so when it
arrives. Then I get to try to figure out how to get it to work with Linux.
But from what I've read, that should be pretty easy.
http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html
Rich
I've been expecting an e-mail message that's not shown up in my inbox. I
grepped /var/log/maillog for the domain and found a record for a partial
transaction:
Mar 20 10:52:12 salmo postfix/qmgr[11647]: 5730AE7:
from=a.bb...@c.net, size=6636, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
What does this
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
Here's a link to a story about bugs and exploits in Safari, IE, and
Firefox on Mac and Win. There's no mention of Firefox for Linux, but since
Mac is a lot of Unix under the hood, I wonder if this can be a problem on
Linux, too.
Dick,
That
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
Is there a tool that will convert a pdf page to a jpg?
convert (part of ImageMagick).
I used it in the reverse sequence to convert 12 scanned manual pages to 12
pdf pages that I then concatenated with pdftk.
Rich
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Something broke here and I've no idea where to look. Not all scripts in
/etc/cron.daily are being run (specifically 1pflogsumm) while 0logwatch,
logrotate, slocate and (presumably) others do run.
I activated the 1pflogsumm in root's crontab, but now that's apparently
not running, either. At
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
Try to run it (1pflogsumm) from the command line. I'm assuming this is
some kind of wrapper (shell, bash, etc.) around pflogsumm.pl so you should
also check that ownership/permissions didn't get changed somehow/someway
on either or both of
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
1. Does 1pflogsumm do the same as your command line below? (copy and
paste from the file to be sure).
Not quite. /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm:
- checks location of /var/log/maillog
- defines EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/pflogsumm
- sets
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Robert Munro wrote:
If you're not receiving any mail from cron jobs, you might want to check
the permissions on your mail spool file, such as:
/var/spool/mail/rshepard (or whatever is your own userid on the system).
Robert,
Here it's
-rw-rw 1 rshepard mail 72721
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, drew wymore wrote:
Does anything show up in /var/log/maillog?
Yes. That's how I know that postfix received the message and passed it to
procmail.
Since it's in mbox format you should be able to cat the mailbox and grep
for the message by sender/subject since you know
I'm running the 32-bit Slackware-12.2 on a machine with an AMD Athlon/X2
dual-core, 64-bit CPU. If I want to download, build, and install the generic
VirtualBox, am I correct that I want the 32-bit i386 version rather than the
64-bit AMD version?
Rich
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, drew wymore wrote:
That's correct Rich.
Thanks, Drew.
Rich
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Any ideas?
OK. Got past this by exporting NNTPSERVER=news.aracnet.com. Now, however,
I have a different failure, and this seems to be at aracnet. I'll write tech
support there.
Rich
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
how about /etc/nntpserver ?
Chris,
Yup. I totally spaced that one. Now I have an authentication error at
aracnet so I'll write to them for help.
Many thanks,
Rich
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
It would take a few seconds to do the test.
Do it.
Michael,
From ~/.pinerc:
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
Great to hear that you got to the bottom of this :)
Heath,
Thank you. The procmail issue seems to be both subtle and very difficult.
I'm hoping that folks here have sufficient collective insight to help me get
this fixed, too. While I could figure
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:
I haven't read this thread closely, but from what I have seen I don't
know the solution. Your setup is somewhat complex with the various
layers.
Yeah. It goes Postfix - Procmail - mail folder.
It sounds like procmail is doing the right thing and
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:
It sounds like procmail is doing the right thing and has been for a long
time.
The procmail issue is very specific; apparently it affects only messages
addressed to me at my business domain. The vanishing messages from gte.net,
a company with its own
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I just now added me to the group 'mail'.
This has nothing to do with the problem. I sent a test message from my
personal domain to my business domain; it ended up in the mbox file for the
former.
Rich
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
From the log file you posted at my request earlier this week:
procmail: Notified comsat: rshep...@451980:/home/rshepard/mail/INBOX
which should be harmless, comsat service running or not.
Chris,
I thought that the message might refer to
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
The procmail issue is very specific; apparently it affects only messages
addressed to me at my business domain.
I can confirm that this is the case. Adding a procmail recipe to place
business mail in my personal folder has produced messages
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Tony Rick wrote:
In Organize Bookmarks, right-click the *folder* in the tree list to get
the context menu and select Sort By Name at the bottom.
Tony,
That's what I missed! I was right-clicking on the bookmark leaves, not the
branch on which they occur. I'll still look
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I suspect that there is more than one person on this list who has written
a book or two.
Me. You can buy a copy at Powell's Technical Books. Quantifying
Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic, published by
Springer-Verlag in 2005. ISBN:
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Galen Seitz wrote:
Well, there's Rich for starters. He used LyX for his book. I suspect
he's been ignoring this whole conversation because he knows he'd never
convince John to use LaTeX.
http://www.appl-ecosys.com/the-book.shtml
Galen,
I happened only incidently
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:
Fact it, most tools come with choices like that. An old boss of mine
called it the Chevy/Jaguar choice.
True, Paul.
The Jaguar will get you there more quickly (on any given trip) and
offer you far more creature comforts and features, but at a high
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Hal Pomeranz wrote:
You don't need to mess with your Xorg.conf (much) if you just use xrandr:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
Ooooh, I love me some xrandr...
xrandr goes beyond ThinkPads; it's included in Slackware-12.2.
Rich
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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
xrandr goes beyond ThinkPads; it's included in Slackware-12.2.
... and Ubuntu, I meant to write.
Rich
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The past few days the following (with different numbers and IDs) has shown
up in the logwatch summary:
- sendmail Begin
SEVERE ERRORS
-
System Error Messages:
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere: 2 Time(s)
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Tim wrote:
Do you have your postmaster alias set up correctly?
Yes. Postfix has its own version of sendmail, and this error has not shown
up in any log report prior to a couple of days ago.
Thanks, Tim,
Rich
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, linux-yug wrote:
What does df -h /var give you??
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda91004M 477M 528M 48% /var
Rich
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Lost Queue Files:
./qfn38BeXMZ021496: savemail panic
./qfn38721d8018551: savemail panic
A bit of Google taught me that this is certainly a sendmail thing, but my
MTA is postfix. Apparently sendmail plops messages into
/var/spool
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Neal wrote:
Minor/major quibble: All electricity is delivered above ground at some
point of the journey. All it takes is for some drunken fool to smack the
pole where it transitions from above ground to below ground to really mess
things up. Or anywhere upstream.
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Still strange. If no one has a definitive answer, I'll wait to see
tomorrow's logwatch report and see if clearing all files from that one
directory makes a difference.
Well, no more sendmail log report of severe errors. Cleaning out
/var/log
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Actually, I think this is why I added the --inplace flag to dirvish.
I have been using pybackpack, a GUI front end for rdiff-backup. Works
pretty nice.
To add to the archival record, allow me to present the tool I've used for
a dozen years for
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:
First, if it won't run manually, then you've got a better chance of figuring
it out. Run it in strace to see if the error is visible:
strace -o /tmp/pflogsumm.trace /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm
The output of strace is cryptic, but the failure should be
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
ah, then you should start the debugging there. add a set -x to the top
of the shell script to get verbose output of every command that runs. i
bet you see that some variable is not being set as expected or some
'setup' part of things is
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
while that was my guess as to what's wrong, set -x will debug a
plethora of problems.
OK. I just made the addition and manually ran /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm.
Output is below (and it was successful):
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ '[' -f /var/log/maillog
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
a lot of those scripts don't produce output at all (no email) if there is
nothing to report. could it be that between your 0002 run and 0440 that
nothing of interest has happened, so you don't get any email?
Joe,
No, that's not what happens. Usually
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Larry Brigman wrote:
depends on the configuration of the crontab.
Also the crontab doesn't have the same parsing capability as
as Bash, so
file
will get an error were as
file 21
will get stderr and stdout to the file.
Larry,
Done. I'll see what happens in the
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
you just leave the set -x in place and eventually it fails, and you
compare the output to a working run. no need to live with it not
working--just live with it working for the moment =)
OK, Chris. I guess that I'll be back, eh? :-)
Thanks,
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Nate wrote:
My sed-fu was deficient I guess (or my sed was) so I fell back to perl:
If you want word-case
perl -pe 's/ \b (\w) ([^\s]+) \b /\1\L\2/gx'
# ONE COMPANY - One Company (rather than One company)
Another highly useful tool. Many thanks.
Rich
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:
You can use emacs to interactively record a macro for this purpose. In
fact, since I prefer programming by demonstration for these sorts of tasks
I usually use emacs and teach it what to do.
Jason,
Now this is a really good thing to know. I've not
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
SO: Which distros out there, in your experience, combine: a) arguably
modern functionality: good GUIs, drag-n-drop, plug-n-play USB, decent
driver availability, etc, and b) Only need adjustments (downloads) about
once every 6 - 14mo? More seldom is
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
I am using Ubuntu Intrepid. I am a user and not a coder.
I also live out in slow-speed, ex-urban Oregon.
Just a thought: have a friend or colleague with a high-speed connection
get the patches and burn them on a cdrom. He can mail you the disk and
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
If I get a Linux event going out here, you all would be more than welcome
to come on out!
Guy,
OK. Now drop the other shoe. Where is out here?
Rich
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
Is any big name service any better in regards to linux? I've had more
than my share of broadband providers in my many years, and none of them
were linux-savvy at the consumer level (time warner, att, grandecom,
comcast, charter). not that i
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Larry W wrote:
Still this points to the less-automatic disadvantage because one has to
sign up to the list. Is it pointed out to the user during installation?
I've no idea. When I switched from Red Hat I subscribed to receive a set
of disks each time an upgrade was
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Daniel Herrington wrote:
I'm a C++ newbie, so be gentle ;)
I tried C++ and decided to stick with C; I now use Python when I want an
OO approach.
My question is, how does the compiler know about that get_auto_event.cpp
defines get_auto_event from just the extern
Hope someone here has a quick answer. I inserted a graphic image into a
paragraph, placed the image at the right margin, and wrapped text to the
left. There is no space between the text and the left edge of the image. I
cannot find a menu option (when I right-click on the image) to add space
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
How do I do this?
Hey! It worked once again. As soon as I posted this I found the answer on
the 'picture' menu. Sigh.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Friday afternoon.
Rich
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I have a graphic as a PostScript file that displays about the middle of a
page. I would like to trim away the white space above and below the text.
The .ps file defines the bounding box as the whole page:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
Since I'm not fluent in PS, is there a way to determine
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Russell Senior wrote:
I seem to remember that gv (ghostview) shows you the x,y coordinates of
the mouse pointer. We used that feature as a cheap-ass digitizing
mechanism to capture geometry from old tranmission tower drawings a while
ago.
Thanks, Russell. I'll check
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Bill Barry wrote:
It's just a text file. Edit it in a text editor. Postscript is
programming language for describing pages the ps file is the source.
Bill,
Yes, I know that. It's finding the x,y positions on the page where the
text in which I'm interested begins and
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
The fact remains that provisioning fiber to the home costs about 1000 per
$endpoint for something durable (source: the guy that
installed fiber to my house). And that is here in suburbia, where they
string the fiber between poles, and don't run it in
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
can we have the script itself, too?
Of course! I thought I had posted that earlier, but now realize no one
would save it.
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm
#
# This file is run on a daily basis to analyse your mail logs.
#
# The file is
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Thus, this post is vaguely relevant to Linux. However, herring in water
pipes, or optical fibers, or on your hard drive, are very bad. I would
rather have bugs.
Pickled herring with onions in sour cream is very good. Pickled bugs get
stuck between
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Larry Brigman wrote:
resending because of mailing error.
Is this a pun, Larry? :-)
Or is it possible that this is getting caught in a mail filter somewhere?
I doubt this very much. I used to see reports mailed from root to me
rejected by postfix because the report
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
No mail reports Sunday morning. Both reports yesterday morning. No reports
this morning, ...
Update: both invocations of /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm ran last night. So
did the 'set' report with the same 0 completion code.
There is no pattern I
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Derek Loree wrote:
I know this is a long shot, but it fits the descriptions I've seen. Could
you be running out of memory on the nights that it fails?
Derek,
Not likely. There're 2G of memory and only system daemons and the few cron
jobs running overnight.
Both
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, David Kaplan wrote:
I had dist-upgrade problems with Ubuntu in the past. I only do clean
installs these days. The new Ubuntu 9.04 has been the smoothest install
and configuring I've had. I tried Kubuntu, and I still think KDE 4.2 needs
work. I'll happier with Gnome and
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Nye Walker wrote:
Safety. Many linux users customize their software, tweak their configs,
and like things that way. From what I've seen a linux upgrade doesn't
wipe out much, thus leaves conflicting services and configurations.
Nye,
This is a people problem that has a
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I still can't get Gnome to run properly. Actually, it comes up fine and my
custom screen background looks the same as it did before. It's just the
panel that is missing. And Alt-F2 won't open a terminal. However, I can
get to the command line with
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Michael wrote:
You can do an in place upgrade. They should have stomped all the bugs by now.
Note: I did not take this route when I figured out what was going on last
night at 9:30. But I will within the next week and I can let you know how it
worked out.
A couple
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open
besides Alt-F2?
Can you restart the panel manually? Does a right-click on the root window
bring up a menu from which you can open a terminal? I don't know Gnome, but
this brings
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Failed to get the session bus: dbus-launch failed autolaunch D-BUS
Uh-oh! You missed de bus.
And to those who suggested right-clicking on the root window, bear in mind
that there are no windows on the display at all, root or otherwise. It's
Logwatch runs well here, but it includes many lines from /var/log/maillog,
one for each lost connection. I would like to remove that portion of the
report but cannot find an option to do so in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.
If there is a way to eliminate this one section of the report,
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tim Wescott wrote:
I can't even ping the other Ubuntu machines on the network?!? We're all
one happy family on this side of the firewall, so I assume the problem is
one of setting up the right permissions.
Tim,
What do you have in /etc/hosts?
Rich
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tim Wescott wrote:
Can you give me a quick rundown (or refer me to a web page) on just what
to put in /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf?
Here's a portion of ours:
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.55.1salmo.appl-ecosys.com salmo
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tim Wescott wrote:
t...@thishere:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1localhost
127.0.1.1thishere
So, 'thishere' is on a different subnet from 'localhost'. Where's
'thatthere' located?
Consider doing something like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Pete Lancashire wrote:
I have a similar problem with a 4V the one that lets me
print up to 11 x 17 paper. Could be a great use for SBC
as both a print spooler and PS-PCL translator.
pete/Keith:
I wonder if this is why my LJ5 can no longer print from the command line
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Dan Young wrote:
A number of smaller HP laser printers use host-based schemes, and don't
support PCL. Here's a few from the OpenPrinting database, by driver:
Germane to the HPIJS drivers: while all the LJ5xx printers are supported,
the plain 5 is not. Not even HP could
On Mon, 4 May 2009, ckonstan...@pippiandcarlos.com wrote:
I am having difficulty getting latex to understand 11x17 (a.k.a. tabloid)
paper size. Any suggestions?
Carlos,
I would include in preamble \usepackage{geometry} and include
specifications for \paperwidth and \paperheight. You might
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Donkyhotay wrote:
Yes it does!
Holy crap, rockbox works on ipods?
This has been a very interesting thread for me. I have an 8G Meizu mp3
player that works very well. I plug it into the USB port, mount it as a
drive, and cp files on and off (it's formatted VFAT). Simple.
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Paul Mullen wrote:
cmus doesn't seem smart enough to notice when new files are added to
directories it's scanned in the past. A restart or a call to the :add
/your/path/here command should do the trick.
Thanks, Paul. I guess I need to re-add each time I invoke it
On Wed, 6 May 2009, m0gely wrote:
If you're using an up-to-date sshd, and employ good password practices,
what's the point of doing all this? Honest question.
The firewall appliance replaced the old floppyfw that ran for years. It's
silent, small, and works. The denyhosts is an addition to
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I'm looking for an alternative to OpenOffice.org for slide shows,
and thinking about web-like alternatives that I can run through
with firefox.
Suggestions?
Keith,
I use the LaTeX beamer class. The results are typeset, graphics are easy
to
A long time ago, and an earlier version of opera than the current 9.64, I
was able to find the configuration option to report itself as IE. This was
useful for those MS servers in remote locations who did not like firefox,
particularly on linux.
I ran into this situation last week in the
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
i just looked over the script again, and no where does it actually invoke
pflogsumm. are you sure you correctly copied the script?
Joe,
I also see that the script checks for /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm, but
thought it then called that in lines 52 or 59.
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
send the script log again now that you've fixed the error.
Here it is, Joe:
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ '[' -f /var/log/maillog ']'
+ LOGFILE=/var/log/maillog
+ EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/pflogsumm
+ TMPDIR=/etc/postfix
+ TMPEXE=pfls.tmp.19894
+
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Larry Brigman wrote:
If you really wanted to speed up the troubleshooting process, add a cron
job entry to execute it every five minutes ( or some such to allow you to
look at the logs and make changes).
Larry,
Now that's a good thought! I can do it manually, too, and
This is a continuation of my previous thread on why the mail log summary
script fails to run. It didn't all last week while I was away and still
doesn't run.
The context: The actual perl script, /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm, installed
without the .pl extension, runs without error when invoked
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I admin 10+ (ran out of fingers and my shoes are on) mail servers all
running pflogsumm and the shell script does not futz with pflogsumm.pl.
If for some reason Date::Calc or any other module wasn't installed
during the OS installation it got
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
This is a continuation of my previous thread on why the mail log summary
script fails to run. It didn't all last week while I was away and still
doesn't run.
After spending time futzing with this yesterday, and following Rod's
suggestion
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
/lib/firmware/ directories
Oops! That directory exists.
Rich
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Each time I think the mail log reporting issue is resolved I find that it
is not.
Yesterday I received one of the two reports, today none. Both days the
results of the 'set' command was mailed to me showing that the process
supposedly ran and exited with the success code of '0'. That the
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
i can't recall if you have checked /var/log/cron to see if cron thinks it
is running things? and do you see entries in /var/log/maillog at the
appropriate times?
Joe,
Nothing is sent to /var/log/cron; all to /var/log/messages. Yes, I do see
entries
On Fri, 22 May 2009, wes wrote:
Right, but if the question is why is cron running every script but this
one? Now we can say for certain that the answer is cron IS running this
script, but this script itself is failing.
Wes,
That's the path I was following until I hit a dead end.
Again,
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
you wouldn't see the email for the set -x output, that only happens when
run via cron because stdout/stderr is emailed to you.
Joe,
Ah, so. That explains it.
does that log output you just got show that the real pglogsum is being
run? if you have
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
i forgot that the main script is running sendmail directly, pflogsum
doesn't do that. so you should always get email from running that script,
even if pflogsum produced no output. you should also see an entry in
maillog for that sendmail invocation.
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
do you have a LOGFILE line as the very first thing in your .procmailrc?
Joe,
No:
# set to yes when debugging
VERBOSE=yes
# Remove ## when debugging; set to no if you want minimal logging; to all
# for max.
LOGABSTRACT=all
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
#
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
just for clarification, that output is not strace. the -x option to sh
tells it to display commands as it is going to run them.
OK. I thought what I read in my ORA Bash Shell book is that the -x option
is equivalent to '-o strace'. My mistake.
Rich
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