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Difficulty using procmail
by Graham Trott 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I'm trying to filter out the tidal wave of spam, now reaching 100 a day on one mailbox, by using bogofilter as part of a procmail filter. My mailserver is postfix, set to invoke procmail by having main.cf contain the line mailbox_command /usr/bin/procmail I set up /etc/procmailrc to contain the following: -------------------------------------------------------------------- # Pass all mail through bogofilter :0fw | bogofilter -u -e -p # If bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue. # The MTA will retry to deliver it later. :0e { EXITCODE=75 HOST } # File the mail to "spam-bogofilter" if it's spam. :0: * ^X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter spam-bogofilter -------------------------------------------------------------------- which according to the bogofilter manual should send all spam to "spam-bogofilter". But it doesn't. The messages get delivered to the user's mailbox without spam-bogofilter ever getting written. The messages themselves contain the X-Bogosity headers and are correctly classified as being spam or not, so it appears either the last rule isn't being reached or isn't operating correctly. I find the procmail syntax pretty impenetrable; can anyone help deduce what's going wrong? -- GT

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Re: Re: [ALUG] Re: Re: [ALUG] UEA (was: Another small hello...)
by syd＠toufol.com 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Kirsten Naylor <wildduck(a)wildduck.org.uk> wrote on 22.04.2004, 12:28:21: > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:44, Syd Hancock wrote: > > to book Nelson Court for the > > afternoon of sunday 28th June. > > 28th of June is a Monday. Drat - so it is! How did that happen? Oh well, sunday 27th June... Syd

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Hi there a small hello from a new member....
by Robert Frusher 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Hi there, My name is Robert Frusher and have joined the mailing list, I live in King's Lynn Norfolk, presently driving buses for a living... I'm probably not quite a newbie of Linux as I have been using it on and off for about five years. Have had many problems and solved some of them. I was pointed to the group and mailing list by Nick, from Home and Business computing in Lynn. I use both Windows XP and Slackware Linux, the latter more often than not because of what I use my computer for - Web, Email, Software Development and Databases... (I have a degree in computer software engineering I like to keep up with it) Expect some questions, and if I see anything that I may be able to help with I will give it a shot. Robert Frusher

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IEEEE 1394
by Vasko Tomanov 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I have a problem with FireWire Disk, I can't mount it ? or I don't know how to do this ? The FireWire card and RH 9.0 recognize it well, but I can't mount the hard disk attached to the firewire card some suggestions ? HowTo ? Cheers Vasko

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Norwich sunday meetings - another suggestion
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

A couple of people have said that they can book a room at UEA, which has always been a popular choice of venue. Since the upcoming 'anniversary' get-together at the start of May has already been discussed and arranged, and since it seems best to keep that as more of a social than a technical event, I suggest that we have another sunday meet in Norwich, at UEA, to bring kit along etc, farly soon. I propose the last w/e in June, i.e sunday 28th June. Does this clash with any other planned events, local or national? As always, comments welcome especially anyone who can say that they intend to be there. Syd

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Gentoo 2004.0 LiveCD install
by Glen Tyler 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I was so impressed with Gentoo 1.4 that I decided to upgrade and bought the 2CD set of 2004.0, but despite what it says in the install guide such as "if you don't have a working network connection, you have to install a portage snapshot provided by one of or liveCDs" -I did :-) As I want to start at Stage1 I need to run the bootstrap script, but I get to that point the install fails as emerge tries to download another version of portage from the Gentoo Mirrors. I've tried the Gentoo forums, but there does not seem to be much about this, other than 'use a network connection' or 'use Stage3'. As the documentation says that it can be done (although its not the default method) then I assume that they know what they're saying. Is there a way I can stop emerge doing this, or at least show it where I've put the sources? Thanks again Glen

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Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian
by Steve Engledow 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

> when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this > ;Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Just means your X session isn't allowing requests from any user other than the one that started the session. Very sensible really. If you do an 'xhost +' before su-ing you'll be ok. Cheers, Steve P.S. MJR, thanks for being patient. Think I've tamed the beast that is yahoo mail now. Got to better than Outlook though ;)

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Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian
by Steve Engledow 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

> Then you can try running the reconfigure again. > But now when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this > ;Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > I've also seen this kind of thing when trying to run X programs from a console in which I've su'ed to root. Any ideas what might be going on here? Just means your X session isn't allowing requests from any user other than the one that started the session. Very sensible really. If you do an 'xhost +' before su-ing you'll be ok. Cheers, Steve P.S. Third time of sending due to Yahoo's irritating love of HTML mail. Maybe it'll even work this time ;)

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Just installed Debian
by Richard Lewis 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Dear ALUG, I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet. Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working. There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though: 1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup? 2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed Any ideas what might be wrong? Or if it matters? (I'm not even sure what its for; $ apt-cache search noflushd gives: "allow idle hard disks to spin down"). 3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts? Thanks in advance, Richard

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ISDN Woes on Mandrake
by Stuart Hammond 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Hi, Ive been trying to get mandrake to work with the ISDN adapter (which drivers come in the kernal, and it works so that dont seem the problme). The problme appears to be the mandrake 10 front end for ISDN is missing (well incomplete) ive treid googling for an alternate, but i cant seem to find one that works. so what im asking is, does any one know if there is any alternate front ends for ISDN or any easy (as im a bit new at this) work rounds? yours S Hammond PS, IIRC the windows fonts are free to be redistributed so there is no problme copying them to linux (no matter how much microsoft hates you for doing it) actually iirc there was a source forge project dedicated to it, who MS had a go at but couldnt legal do any thing about it. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband

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