OT: testing vs. unstable for new laptop installation

2003-08-14 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
I know this is a bit off-topic, but hope I can gather some opinions here. I'm about to install Debian on a new laptop that's going to be my primary personal machine. I'm trying to figure out whether I'm better off putting on testing or unstable (I use KDE, and stable still has the ancient versi

Re: named: everything working except

2003-10-03 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
--On Friday, October 03, 2003 11:11 AM -0500 Rod Rodolico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just set an A record to foo.net The way I do it is probably incorrect (nslint complains) but I set an A record to foo.net and to www.foo.net, then set everything else up as cnames. foo.net.IN

Default or wildcard virtual user with exim?

2003-10-22 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
I have a simple virtual user mail setup using exim 3 on a Debian testing box. I have a director like so: virtuals: driver = aliasfile domains = /etc/mail/virtuals file = /etc/mail/virtual-aliases search_type = lsearch include_domain no_more and this works fine for the named mappings in the

Re: Default or wildcard virtual user with exim?

2003-10-23 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
--On Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:47 AM +0100 Kenny Duffus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # virtual real [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried this

Hosting recommendations?

2004-03-30 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I am president of an amateur radio group that's been lucky enough to have our internet presence (mainly a reasonably active web server, ftp site, and mailing list server) hosted gratis by a friend at a very high bandwidth site. Unfortunately, the days of the freebie hosting are coming t

Re: Hosting recommendations?

2004-04-01 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
John R. Ackermann N8UR wrote: My problem is that I'm not very knowledgeable about hosting companies, and need to show some more Linux-friendly alternatives than EV1. Can anyone recommend comparable companies that they've had good experience with? We need someone who's likely t

Debian, Exim4, and remote servers that "greylist"

2004-09-29 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
I am running Debian Sid with Exim4, sa-exim, spamassassin, and clamav. From my end, things are working just wonderfully. However, I had an email forwarded from an external sysadmin yesterday about supposed problems in the way I'm interacting with a remote server that does "greylisting." Here's

Default or wildcard virtual user with exim?

2003-10-22 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
I have a simple virtual user mail setup using exim 3 on a Debian testing box. I have a director like so: virtuals: driver = aliasfile domains = /etc/mail/virtuals file = /etc/mail/virtual-aliases search_type = lsearch include_domain no_more and this works fine for the named mappings in the

Re: Default or wildcard virtual user with exim?

2003-10-23 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
--On Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:47 AM +0100 Kenny Duffus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # virtual real [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried this

Hosting recommendations?

2004-03-30 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I am president of an amateur radio group that's been lucky enough to have our internet presence (mainly a reasonably active web server, ftp site, and mailing list server) hosted gratis by a friend at a very high bandwidth site. Unfortunately, the days of the freebie hosting are coming to

Re: Hosting recommendations?

2004-04-01 Thread John R. Ackermann N8UR
John R. Ackermann N8UR wrote: My problem is that I'm not very knowledgeable about hosting companies, and need to show some more Linux-friendly alternatives than EV1. Can anyone recommend comparable companies that they've had good experience with? We need someone who's likely t