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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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keesan
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response 213 of 870:
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Jan 4 17:22 UTC 2005 |
I just got a tel 'help ^U help EOF (honeycut), in response to my offer
of help via tels since talk was not working. My guess is vandalism but still,
talk is not working.
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mcnally
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response 214 of 870:
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Jan 4 17:37 UTC 2005 |
The talk program that ships with OpenBSD is probably a different one than
Grexers are used to. I see that "ytalk" is not available, but it's one of
several superior "talk" replacements.
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tpryan
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response 215 of 870:
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Jan 4 17:38 UTC 2005 |
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keesan
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response 216 of 870:
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Jan 4 22:11 UTC 2005 |
My spam filter caught a real mail until I removed the filter for message body
containing h.?g.?h - There was nothing in the mail that I could find with
this pattern which I thought included hgh and h.g.h and htgtht etc. What
exactly does .? mean - I thought it means any single character or no character
at all. Should it be h\.?g\.?h instead? It also caught something with
td in the Cc: line when I thought I was filtering on td in the message body
with :0B: - does :0B: also include the header and :0: do header only?
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blaise
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response 217 of 870:
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Jan 4 22:44 UTC 2005 |
Discussions of regular expression syntax probably belong in another
item, but I'll answer one more here. h.?g.?h would match the word high,
for example, or highest (the first two I think of). Yes, .? means 0-1
instances of any character.
The H flag checks the header and the B flag the body; HB would check
both. (The default is H.)
From the Procmail Tips website
(http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips.html):
5.2 Flags HB at top of recipe (warning)
[Philip] Version 3.22 has a bug that keeps the 'H' flag from being
cleared, such that once you use it, it never gets cleared. Using the 'H'
flag will therefore cause problems with latter recipes that use just the
'B' but not the 'H' flag. Either way, the only time you should use the
'H' flag is on recipes that needs to match against both the header and
the body. If you want a recipe to match only against the body and you're
using 3.22, use the "B ??" modifier on the conditions. See message
<http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/pipermail/procmail/2002-February/008355.html>
. So to be most pportable possible, convert all previously used condition lines
from:
:0 B
* body-check-here
to use this format:
:0
* B ?? body-check-here
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keesan
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response 218 of 870:
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Jan 4 22:47 UTC 2005 |
I obviously goofed on my hgh filter! I have been using :0: (not :0) for
header only, and :0B: for body only - no H's. I will try again to make some
sense of man procmail (and remove most of my filters with .? in them).
Thanks.
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keesan
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response 219 of 870:
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Jan 4 22:51 UTC 2005 |
I set up a test filter with either :0 or :0: on the line before the subject
and it worked both ways. man procmail also lists samples with or without the
colon. Does anyone else want to start an item on how to use procmail as a
spam filter?
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keesan
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response 220 of 870:
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Jan 5 03:09 UTC 2005 |
Talk is still unable to bind to a control socket.
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gelinas
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response 221 of 870:
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Jan 5 03:38 UTC 2005 |
Dave, the problem was that your .profile had two characters, ^ and H, where
it should have had only one, <CTRL>H. I've taken the liberty of fixing
that problem. (I also fixed the interrupt and kill keys, which had the smae
problem.) I also changed the path of the tset command from /usr/ucb/tset to
/usr/bin/tset.
Tim, you had the same problems with .login. I've fixed them.
I don't know why your tab key isn't working.
Mine works for me.
See: Two tabs, on both this line and the line one above it.
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cross
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response 222 of 870:
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Jan 5 03:53 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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mcnally
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response 223 of 870:
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Jan 5 04:35 UTC 2005 |
It is, as long as you're not using a shell which does something special
with '^', in which case you might need to surround the ^H with single quotes.
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aruba
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response 224 of 870:
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Jan 5 15:46 UTC 2005 |
My agora participation file got munged last night for some reason.
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twenex
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response 225 of 870:
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Jan 5 18:50 UTC 2005 |
This is more like a little niggle than a problem, but why won't colour work
in programs like "most" when I have my terminal set to xterm (I don't know
of any other terminal settings where it might work)?
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twenex
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response 226 of 870:
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Jan 5 18:53 UTC 2005 |
I've also tried "vt100", "vt102", "vt220", and "vt420" to no avail.
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mcnally
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response 227 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:14 UTC 2005 |
Have you tried "ansi"?
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mcnally
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response 228 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:18 UTC 2005 |
re #225: does color work in anything? what happens if you
use echo in the shell to echo the escape sequence to change
text color? any effect? your pager program might be eating
the color sequences if it works in the shell but not in bbs.
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rcurl
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response 229 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:34 UTC 2005 |
When I log in I get the screen
------------------------------------------------------------------
Last login: Wed Jan 5 14:32:51 2005 from
pcp09229896pcs.sanarb01.mi.comcast.net
OpenBSD 3.5 (GREX) #2: Sun Dec 19 15:10:32 EST 2004
To see statements of grex principles and limits, look at
http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-principles -Grex Statement of
Principles http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-limits -Grex Limits
You have new mail.
/usr/local/lib/global.login: No such file or directory.
------------------------------------------------------------------
No motd, no list of users. Is this a permanent change, or a problem?
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cross
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response 230 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:37 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 231 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:45 UTC 2005 |
Thanks. That did it. Now I get the message
mesg: Unable to find your tty (ttyq5) in utmp file
Is that good or bad or indifferent?
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gelinas
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response 232 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:49 UTC 2005 |
It means that the settings allowing (or disallowing) tels won't be available.
We may need to recompile mesg.
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keesan
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response 233 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:53 UTC 2005 |
Is this related to the problem of talk not working? Tels work for me.
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gelinas
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response 234 of 870:
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Jan 5 20:54 UTC 2005 |
I don't know; I've not tried talk.
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gelinas
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response 235 of 870:
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Jan 5 21:00 UTC 2005 |
No, the problem is that talk is not suid. I don't have time to work on
this right now.
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keesan
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response 236 of 870:
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Jan 5 21:00 UTC 2005 |
I get the same error message trying to talk to people whether or not they are
logged in - try a talk keesan (I am logged in) or a talk jdeigert. Something
about sockets. Presumably a file in the wrong place or some limit set wrong.
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keesan
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response 237 of 870:
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Jan 5 21:01 UTC 2005 |
235 slipped in. Does 'not suid' mean permissions for talk need to be
changed? I will tell people to email me until talk works again.
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