Re: Internet connection thru cable tv
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:41:05PM -0500, Richard Davis wrote: I have an internet connection thru a local cable tv company. It is connected up to my computer through a D-Link DE-530CT+PCI Ethernet Adapter. I was wondering if debian supports this kind of connection to the internet and if so , how on earth do you go about setting it up? Thanks for any help, Richard i believe it depends on individual service. but in general you should be able to as i have @home and use it with Linux. What you first need to do is get your network card recognized by linux. The best way to do this is recompile your kernel with support for your card, if it is supported. Once it is recognized by the kernel you can configure it two ways, if your server supports dhcp or bootp you can use that to get the relevant information or you can just manually configure it. The only problem with manually configuring it is that if you have a dynamic ip address you will need to change it while being physically in front of the machine. I use the latter because i have not had any luck with dhcp which @home supports, but it is very easy. i believe there is also a cable-modem howto. good luck. -- _ _ _ _ _ \ / May the force be with you \ / / One Life Crew \ _/ \_ _ _/ \_
Re: Exim as default mailer
I decided to move to exim recently for my MTA, however i found that the debian package does not set it up correctly for local delivery. The exim manual says that the exim binary must be setuid to root but I, as of yet, have to figure out where i should set it since it uses inetd to run. It can either be set in inetd, on the binary it self, or in the exim.conf file, or am i wrong. If someone using exim could help me out it would be greatly appreciated. On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:35:22AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Moore, Paul wrote: Hi, There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual (section 39, Intermittently connected hosts) where it says Exim was designed for use on permanently connected hosts, and so it is not particularly well-suited for use in an intermittently connected environment. This is true for ANY SMTP mailer. SMTP is designed for servers with permanent connections ( to the extent that inbound email is concerned ). People with intermittant connectivity are best served with either collecting mail via pop3 from a host with full-time connectivity, uucp over tcp/ip for domain email for networks with intermittant connectivity, or plain uucp for hosts with no tcp/ip access but dialup acces to a host that does. UUCP over TCP/IP is a _MUCH_ better solution than a virtual domain that feeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a single pop3 mailbox. As I have a single-user home PC with dial-up access to my ISP, I fall squarely into the category of users for whom Exim is not particularly well-suited. Is this a real problem, or is Exim a good mailer for dial-up systems? You can use fetchmail to get the mail from your ISP but please have a look at the exim site for some tweaks to get it to work at optimum performance. In theory, I like Exim, not least for the clear and comprehensive manual, but I really don't want to spend a long time fighting the system's assumptions just to get it set up... It works just fine. George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- _ _ _ _ _ \ / May the force be with you \ / / [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ _/ \_ _ _/ \_
Re: Smail configurationg (wrong from)
have you tried the 'set hostname' option in your ~/.muttrc or global muttrc? i believe it gets the domain name from your /etc/resolv.conf under domain. On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 12:34:49AM +0200, shaul wrote: Hi Sahul, I tried your sugestion but it fails to send any e-mail. Anyway, I perceived that the problem is with mutt because when I send an e-mail with elm there is no problem. Do you use mutt? Can you help me? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 10:46:14PM +0200, shaul wrote: There are instructions for configuring smail to rewrite your From field, in the Debian FAQOMATIC (Courtesy of Daniel Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] ): http://www.debian.org/fom/137.html Hi Debian users, I'm using smail as my MTA and I have a problem: when sending a mail the from is jaca.cos.ufrj.br and not cos.ufrj.br as desired. I used smailconfig, selected the third option and put the server machine name (rio.cos.ufrj.br) and the from as desired cos.ufrj.br. Then I tried other mail and the problem persist. Have I to restart some service? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique -- _ _ _ _ _ \ / May the force be with you \ / / \ _/ \_ _ _/ \_
