"James S. Kaplan" wrote:
> As the available tools for Linux Hams increases, so does the
> complexity of the
> system..........!
>
> I am running several Linux pc's for a variety of services, some ax.25
> and some supporting
> our lan (firewall, etc.). I need to consolidate two of the servers and
> am running into some configuration issues.
>
> 1) sendmail is tough to configure!! I need in/out tcp mail to the
> net/lan AND very much desire
> ampr.org and pbbs smtp mail in and out. I've looked and zmail (I
> think!) and mailgw and am not impressed
> with the documentation. In other words, it seems like the others have
> their issues and configuration difficulties just like sendmail.
>
> Has anyone a similar situation and can share some tips or
> cinfiguration files/scripts/etc? Is there another
> solution out there for the "small network"? We run 6 workstations and
> don't need something grossly overdone.
>
> 2) Along the same lines, my old firewall worked just fine with 2.0.3x
> kernels. With the change, some new hardware and new libs, etc I'm
> running 2.2.x (ipchains, etc). The AX.25 HOW-TO is fairly out-of-date
> and lacking some details in discussing firewalls, ip forwarding and
> "bridging" amprnet radio stuff to/from ethernet/internet. Is anyone
> doing similar work, ie: many services on one box? Routing is a bear
> sometimes and unfortunately, my dns has an illegal entry for
> 44.26.1.0/24 and my addresses are 44.26.1.x!! (Actually, 44.26.1.0
> shows up in the amprnet listing at tapr.org!!!) Is there a solution
> for ampr name lookups like the old ka9q domain.txt file?
>
> 3) We have a few Windows workstations and I use QVTNet 4.0 (ansi
> terminal emulator) to telnet
> over to the various Linux pc's. the vt220 terminfo is lacking in the
> keymapping department. Has anyone any experience in building a
> terminfo entry or can suggest one that allows such keys as BS AND DEL,
> PageUP/DN, F9-12, etc?
>
> I'm a diehard SuSE fan, running 6.3b2 right now (waiting for the
> release version to come in the mail
> so I can review it for the Eugene Linux User's Group!). The primary
> ham server is running two netrom nodes, CLX, apache, ftp, telnet and
> shell. Eventually I'll add FBB or DPBOX to the mix. The net server
> also runs apache, ftp, telnet etc. I need to combine the two, get
> sendmail working for ampr addresses and
> resolve my ethernet<>amprnet routing issues.
>
> Any hints, help and suggestions (besides reading OLD man pages and
> HOW-TO's :+) greatly appreciated. Beer/and/or pizza certificates
> could be arranged if I get this done this week!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> kg7fu
>
> -----------------------------
> James S. Kaplan KG7FU
> Eugene Oregon USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu
> ICQ # 1227639
> Have YOU tried Linux today?
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No argument that Sendmail is tough to configure. I have been using a tool
to help with Linux configs in general and it includes a nice interface to
Sendmail. The tool is called Webmin. It is a free admin tool that will run
on a large varity of *nix platforms. It runs as a daemon with its own
built in web server and uses a standard web browser as the interface. It
provides a graphical interface to a number of system administration
functions including user, DNS, Samba and Sendmail admin and has many more
than this. It makes life much simpler and is easy to install. If you
decide to try this make sure you back up the config files that you already
have as this tool (at least the version I have) assume a new config file
and writes one from scratch appending to the already existing file. You
can find this at http://www.webmin.com
The DNS problem should be fixed to make things work right. I am not a
DNS expert but the simple servers I have done are extremely fussy as to
config file syntax. That would be my first guess as to that problem. You
might try some DNS tools at http://www.domtools.com . The tools might not
be any help but they won't hurt.
Good luck. And no I am not affiliated with either of these sites :-)
Thad Burger
KC8EGO
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