Exim and Mail Forwarding

Hi, I have just finished setting up my internet gateway server using the "Setting Up Mail for a Home Network Using Exim" tutorial in the July(43) issue of Linux Gazette. However I have another linux machine that will need to send mail to its local users, the users on the internet gateway and

Linux Kernel 2.2.10

I have just downloaded and installed the image and headers for the 2.2.10 kernel, and I am now getting the following error on boot SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Does anyone know what the program is? Regards Graham

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1460

Well mine work but I have a 2940-AU wether that makes a difference i don't know. Regards Graham >I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter

Yamaha CDRW4260

Hi, I have just upgraded my Yamaha CDRW-4360 Drive to the latest firmware version, but when I try to mount a cd in the drive I get an I/O Error message. I'm using it with an adaptec 2940AU scsi card and Debian 2.1. Does anyone know what the problem could be, The drive still work fine in Windows

Debian 2.1 -> 2.2

How easy would it be to upgrade from Debian 2.1 to 2.2? Are the packages all relatively stable? Regards Graham

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1584

Hi, I noticed this to when I have built new kernels, I didn't manage to fix it but I had to run 'make-kpkg clean' first before it would do it. Hope this helps. Graham >Hello > >Why is that when I build a new kernel via make-kpkg, it doesn't make a >new kernel rev. > >Scenario: > Previousl

Securing Debian GNU/Linux HOWTO

Hi, I have followed the howto on securing debian but I can not change my password i keep getting the message passwd: Module is unknown Does anyone know what the problem is, I think it may be a pam problem but I'm not sure, any ideas? Regards Graham

Re: Securing Debian GNU/Linux HOWTO

03:22:36AM -0700, Graham Lillico wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have followed the howto on securing debian but I can not change > > my password i keep getting the message > > > > passwd: Module is unknown > > > > Does anyone know w

Problem with apt-get

Hi, Can anyone tell me how I can get apt-get to go through a proxy. Regards Graham

Gnome Terminal

Hi, I have just upgraded my slink dist to use the latest gnome and enlightenment releases but I have noticed that gnome-terminal now take at least 2 to 3 time longer to start up, that is did before. Does anyone know why thats is? Regards Graham

Exim

Hi, I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send any email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following error message. 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: procmail director deferred: file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied

Fetchmail

Hi, I am trying to create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that will run fetchmail to download my mail automatically. I can run it manually using me .fetchmailrc file but the I can't seem to get the script working correctly. Any ideas. Also as I have more than on email address but they all end up i

New Debian Logos

Can anyone let me know where I can get the New Debian logo's from? As I wish to update my web pages etc... Regards Graham

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1189

Hi, I had a similar problem when I used pppconfig, but i just had to do a 'route del default' before I ran pon and it seemed to fix the problem. Hope this help Graham. >Hi. I'm having some trouble with my ppp. >It works, but it kind of locks the applications that are trying to get connected (

Re: fetchmail woes

The command your looking for is 'chmod 710 /root/.fetchmailrc' NOT chown which changes the owner of the file. Hope that helps Graham. >Hi all, > >After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this >.fetchmailrc: > >set postmaster "patrick" >poll pop.dial.pipex.com with prot

Gnome

Hi, I would like to set up the latest version of GNOME on my debian 2.1 (slink) box. However I do not know what is the best way to go about it. Can someone please point me to the best way to install gnome without using apt. Would the it be best for me to use apt (as described on the gnome pages

Microsoft Mouse

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to get a micrsoft mouse (the on with the wheel) to act as a 3 button mouse? As under windows 95/nt the wheel can also be used as a third button. Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Using Diald

Hi all, I am trying to install diald, as I have a small network, no more than 5 machines, and I want all of them to use the interent via my isp account, everything else is already configured, apart from my connection which at the moment has to started and stopped manually. I am looking at using d

Re: hard disk restarting a couple of times an hour

>> >> I've noticed that even when I'm not using it, my hard disk is re-spun a time >> or two an hour. THere's a brief slowing, followed by the click & bt as it >> restarts. >> >> I originally assumed a looze cable, but I'm reasonably convinced that the >> power & ribbon cables are firmly

Linuxconf

Hi all, I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo) and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the latest

LinuxConf

Hi all, I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo) and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the latest

DNS and Host access.

Hi, I have just set up a primary and secondary name servers on my network, and I have created some A class records for things like ftp, www and news. I would like to deny access to say the web site if someone used say http://ftp.bogus.org and just allow access from http://www.bogus.org, I have be

Squid

Hi All, I am using Squid as my web cache and I have been playing reound with the cachemgr script that come with Squid, but I can't seem to get it to work properly, for some of the functions that can be selected when using this cgi script it seems to want a password but everyone I try seems to be i

Adduser

Hi all, I am currently using debian 1.3.1 and I noticed last night that the adduser script isn't copying files from the /etc/skel directory properly. It just copies the files but without anythin inside them, i.e. I have set up some default bash scripts that I want all users to run but after creat

xhost

Hi all, I am trying to configure my debian 1.3.1 box to allow me to run X programs from the root account when I am logged in as another user, this is because the root account is locked so I have to 'su' to root, the problem I am having is that before I 'su' to root I have to run xhost . Is there

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

ting the output from this program to a seperate log file might be an idea to. Good Luck Graham P.S. If you want any help please feel free to contact me. +--+--- ---+ | Graham Lillico| E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +

Matrox Millenium G200

Hi all, Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? Its a new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it. If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

>> Brandon Mitchell wrote: >> >On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote: >> > >> >> I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before t >> >he login >> >> prompt appears. if you are using bash as your shell then just create a .bash_logout file in the users home hirec

Accelerated X

Hi, I am currently looking at buying Accelerated X from Xi graphics (think thats correct), as I am looking at buying a Matrox Millenium G200, but I am wondering how compatiable it is with Debian? i.e. how easy it is to install etc.. Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mail gateway

>> What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This allows >> you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be transmitted. >> When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server that I get from my ISP. >> That's what I have at home - is this what you are lookin

XFree86 is 3.3.3.

Hi, Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? Regards Graham

Email Question

Hi, I am just about to upgrade to Slink and I was wondering what MTA would be the best to use to allow me to do the following. 1. Send and receive local & intranet mail from my servers. 2. Send Remote (internet mail) so my domain would change from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to

Debian 2.1

Hi, Does anyone know whats going on in the Debian world lately. Still no sign of 2.1 as of yet? Anyone know anything? Graham

Creating device sr0

Hi, Can anyone please tell me how I can create /dev/sr0 as my cd writer wants to use that device. I have tried the man pages and the MAKEDEV command etc but to no avail. Any ideas? Regards Graham

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

>> I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is >> overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the >> specific cards. As far as I know the Millenium II also works with MetroX, and yet again it is not free but it is a good package, and ver

Re: Port Scanning

>> I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a >> icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use >> ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port >> scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. >> >>

Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

Hi, >> Hi, >> >> I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be >> installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install >> RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to >> Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. Howeve

Re: X install/config query

>> Hello: >> >> I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete >> the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else >> that I have tried seems to be). >> >> I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system. I made the smae mistake when I fi

Virtual Consoles

Hi, Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like mingetty? I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen

Smail/Sendmail Question

Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver any local mail or network mail to the appropriate user/server, b

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

>> >> Hi, >> >>"Graham" == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: >> >> Graham> Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using >> Graham> either Smail or Sendmail, >> >> Simple in sendmail. >> >&g

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

>> I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably >> disagree. I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will do what i want then i will use that. >> I have sendmail set up as : >> sendmail -bd -q 15m same as mine at the moment. >> I am using

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

>> >> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't >> feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to >> 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. As far as I am aware then you can not use Linux to format these tapes, this may of

Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

Hello all I'm still trying to get smail working like I want, but I think I am nearly there thanks to all your help. But I have another question. How can I get my internet mail to my mail server from my isp's pop3 server, so that my promailrc file will filter all my mail both internet and local,

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

>> Hi! >> >> >> > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header >> > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header >> > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header >> > >> >This is possible by >> > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf t

Serial Ports.

Hi, Does anyone know why on boot up my Serial ports are displayed as /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01? I have tried running the 0setserial script from /rc.boot/ (i think thats correct) and that says they are /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 but it also produces a wierd error, something like; cannot ge

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

>> Nico De Ranter wrote: >> > >> > >> > Howdy, >> > >> > a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: >> > >> >Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ >> >Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ >> >Advansys UW180$ >> >Advansys U 150$ >> >Diamond fire

Win95's FAT32 & Linux

Hello, I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does not seem to work. Any ideas? Also when I try to instal

/etc/modules

Hi all, Just a quicky, I have just compiled sound support (as a module) into my kernel and want to load the sound module everytime I boot, I places 'sound' in the /etc/modules files , where all the other modules are listed i.e. vfat, ne etc but when I boot it says it can't find the module sound.

Re: Hardware question.

Hi, >> Hi, >> >> I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I >> looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed so heres >> what I am looking at getting. >> >> Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit. >> it contains: Sounds like a good choice. >> a ATX mo

Re: smbclient interface

>> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: >> >> : >> : Is there a smbclient interface that is something like mc's ftp interface? >> >> Nope, at least not that I'm aware of. I don't know about mc's interface but if you are using the KDE Desktop (which is now avaliable in deb format) there is

Packages

Hi all I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and I noticed that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three different formats, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the differences are in these three formats. they are .dsc

MetroX

Hi all, I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is there another way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think) directory, and I was wondering what this was, as it can't be the server a

Re: MetroX

>> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: >> >> > I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I >> > should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is >> > there another way? I noticed a

Re: KDE

>> There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there >> a kdebase one on the way too? Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can remember. Regards Graham >> -- >> >>

Mouse

Hi, I have a microsoft ps/2 mouse with the wheel and I was wondering if the wheel could be used as a third button under X? as it can be under Win95. If so what do I set the mouse up as? I have tried saying that the mouse is three buttons but It doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Regards Graham

Re: equal interrupts

>> hi everybody, >> >> i have a problem with my pci-bios : it assigns the same interrupt on two >> different devices (SCSI and USB) as you can see in the attachment. >> >> i would not really care about it if i had no problems with recording >> cd's. my question is if this is normal or an error of

KDE Beta-3

Hi all, I am trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it avaliable in .deb format? Also if you install a .tgz form

Re: KDE Beta-3

>> > trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am >> > trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does >> > anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it >> > avaliable in .deb format? >> >>KDE is sort of

kde : using kdm instead of xdm

Hi all, I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone else had this problem? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: kde : using kdm instead of xdm

>> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: >> >> > I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it >> > just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am >> > wondering i

Fetch Mail Problem

Hi, I am trying to get fetchmail to get my mail from my isp, exept everytime I use it (i.e. fetchmail -u ), I get an error from fetchmail saying something about my local user name being different than my isp mail name, How can i correct this? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fetch Mail Problem

l fetchmail that the isp mail name relates to a different name on my box? I know that the error is being causes be exim as fetchmail defaults to send the mail to port 25. Graham >> >> >> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: >> >> > Hi,

Re: chmod not working

>> i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug >> in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content >> of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my >> root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tri

Exim Problem

Hi all, I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway to tell exim that if the DNS hostname lookup fails then

Re: freshmeat repository

>> >> >From freshmeat page: >> >> -- >> >> freshmeat RPM repository >> >> As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with >> >> the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for >> >> them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him >> >> questions or comment

Re: Exim Problem

>> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send >> > email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that >> > host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway >> > to tell exim that if the

Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

>> >> I had trouble setting up an EtherlinkII 3com 3509b card with 2.0.32 and >> 2.0.33 kernel. I configured pnp, compiled the right driver as module, but >> the module gives me either initialization failed or symbol not found when >> specifying io=0x210 irq=3... Is it the ISA one (I think there

Re: Exim Problem

>> > >> Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? >> > >> >> > >> order hosts,bind >> > >> >> > >> this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named >> > >> (or at least this is what I think it should do :) >> > >> > Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

>> a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at >> once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this >> is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i >> found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? I do this quite al

Re: KDE Problem

>> >> >> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: >> >> > I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm >> > >> > when I type kde Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe xdm/kdm even). Graham >> > I get the following error: >> > kde: error in loading sha

Re: NE2000

>> >> >> Hi All. >> >> I have a NE2000 card on my 486DX4 100MHz server, running a hamm >> Debian (upgraded whenever possible - something like twice a week... ;) >> And, recently, I encountered a problem: the cable that links the NE card >> to the HUB (3comm) has been changed from coaxi

Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is already one. Regards Graham Lillico -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful, especially if anyone could give me the URL of any information. Regards Graham Lillico -- TO