Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:57 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:20:40 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Seems to me, "very small 'n' light" is mutually exclusive with "grand or under". Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? Works for me, but you'll need a USB wir

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 26, 2005, at 7:49 pm, Willie Wong wrote: One of my friends, however, has a T series thinkpad, and it runs Gentoo fine, except that no matter what she does it would refuse to boot into a 2.6 kernel. Couldn't figure out why. I have an old T20 which runs 2.6 perfectly. I guess I must've

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 26, 2005, at 9:35 pm, John Jolet wrote: Postfix would be _ideal_ except that "relayhost" is static. I don't believe there is any way to define "relayhost" to change according to your current ISP. hadn't thought of that, since my home mail server allows authenticated smtp. darn. S

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:01 am, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx backu

[gentoo-user] Adsl, rp-ppoe and new IP assignment

2005-10-26 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings to the group,     First, if this is not the first time you've seen this I apologize.  I lost all of my last 24hrs of email.  And, I didn't see this on the reflectors.  So, I appreciate your patience - thank you.    I have been running pppoe by roaring penguin f

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Adsl, rp-ppoe and new IP assignment

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
No easy fix: I wrote a script that checks my ISP's front page using "GET" every 30 seconds. When an error occurs, it starts checking the dhcp assigned via the adsl modem IP address every 5 seconds until it gets a valid address so it can restart apache, update dyndns, checking that dhcp hasnt gone

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
Stroller wrote: Set "relayhost" on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate & do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
James wrote: YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' for example: Mail -s $USER < body-file to all usernames in the file user-l

[gentoo-user] internet/lan access control

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have a home and office LAN using comcast broadband cable for access. My office and laptop is Linus, the kids home computers for homeschooling are running xp-home. I want to switch the home machines to linux desktops and use vmware for running their homeschooling software. Problem is I like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote: > Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic > tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD. I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is improving all the time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to > do well with Linux. > > Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list dedicated to Linux on TP)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
Hey there, you could try postix: 1. use it's sendmail binary so you don't have a daemon ruuning 2. take a look here about how to configure postfix to defer delivery: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#dialup 3. write a short script, call it, say, dumpmail, called with dumpmail ispname dumpmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally. Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as simplifying laptop setup. BillK On

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
> That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working > with? Razr V3 - it's a pretty sweet phone. ;) > You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm > driver from my kernel config. Excellent. I like it when I'm right - it happens so infrequently... :) > cdc_acm

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > config th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:15:08PM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: > I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my > LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into > learning how to set up SMTP authentication. > > Unfortunately, that wouldn't help

Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix & nbsmtp)

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:02:20 -0400 "Covington, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to have both nbsmtp and postfix, so that I can run an MTA and > use an MUA independently of each other. Although the two can co-exist > peacefully, the combo seems to upset portage: > > video

Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix & nbsmtp)

2005-10-26 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Covington, Chris wrote: >Hi all, > >I'd like to have both nbsmtp and postfix, so that I can run an MTA and >use an MUA independently of each other. Although the two can co-exist >peacefully, the combo seems to upset portage: > >videodrome ccovington #

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
syslog-ng does. bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d apache2 hibernate-script mysql scrollkeeper syslog-ng bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng app-admin/syslog-ng * bunyip ~ # so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit back and watch it happen. BillK O

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