Organizing Multiple OSes on Drive(s)

2004-10-23 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, Noob again. I have a box that I'm using to boot multiple OSes (eight in all). The boot is working fine with Grub (which I know fairly well), but the OSes are just kinda thrown on the drive(s). I want to re-install them in a more organized manner. I'm posting here because five of the OSes are

Re: Mail Server Questions

2004-10-23 Thread Phil Bardanes
Arias, Thanks for your reply and thanks for laying it out in an easy-to-understand manner. I'll try it out! PB On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:40, Arias Hung wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Phil Bardanes wrote: > > > Hi, noob here. > > > > We have five machines running v

Mail Server Questions

2004-10-22 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, noob here. We have five machines running various OSes (only one Windows box) with a Debian sarge business server on our private network. Everything is run through a dedicated firewall using iptables rules for NAT, packet filtering, port forwarding, etc. We also have a public server for our pu

Samba - hostname no appear in smbstatus

2004-09-28 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, Newbie here. I'm having problems with seeing the hostname of a Linux box correctly under Samba with smbstatus. Background: I'm running sarge with Samba 3.0.5 on a server that I built. It sits on our local network behind a Smoothwall firewall, which functions as a virtual nameserver using our

Wine on Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Bardanes
I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being very stable. Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our Debian

KDE and alt/tab window switching icon size

2004-09-21 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, I've decided to give KDE a try after using Gnome for some time now. I'm running Sarge with KDE 3.2.3. I'd like to make the window icons that appear in the alt-tab key sequence windows switching app larger. I've tried to do this through the Control Panel/Appearance & Themes/Icons/Advanced with

Sarge php4 compile failure

2004-08-07 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, Debian newbie here trying to recompile PHP4.3.4 (on Debian Sarge, 2.6.7 kernel) to support postgresql built-in (flag --with-pgsql). $ auto-apt run dpkg-buildpackage -b -D Having to do a bunch of reverse patching in the configure, and then when it finally starts up, am getting the following e