need help configuring exim4 on a new debian wheezy install
Hello,I have a new debian wheezy installation on my laptop, and I wish to configure exim4 so that it will utilize smtp.live.com to send email outside my local machine.I do not have my own domain to use for the domain field in the configuration process, so what is the best method for configuring exim4.BTW: I will be using it with mutt and mpop/procmail.-- Best Regards, DonaldDonald raikes | Accessibility Specialist/ QA EngineerPhone: +15202717608 | Mobile: +15202717608 Oracle Quality Assurance| Tucson, Arizona Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
RE: lenny won't boot after re-install
Hi again Nuno, I tried an experiment this morning. I used my ubuntu intrepid livecd and installed it on ty problem system. It installed fine and when I rebooted, it worked just great! Don't know what was going wrong with the lenny installer that it couldn't install properly, but I will try it again another day. -Original Message- From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:43 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: lenny won't boot after re-install Hi, I haven't had that problem before, i can't really help (plus it's a friday night and most of the list answers from their work places i guess). The only drive that failed on me just became completely unusable, period. It would make a snaping sound repeatedly (like releasing something that was held by a spring) and the BIOS would complain there's no OS to be found. Does the screen go blank after the POST or is it always blank from the second you power on? If the first, well, it could be Debian or could be the hard-drive. If the latter then it's most likely the hardware: probably the motherboard, or the video card (home desktops aren't usually configurable to ignore lack of keyboard/monitor), or... something else. Well, you can't edit the MBR. You do what you tried to do: overwrite it. It may be a silly question, but since liveCDs mount their systems onto RAM, i guess you mounted your harddrive's /dev (as in hda or sda), not the liveCD's? rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for something to load. I am wondering if my harddrive is failing. Well if you can mount /dev and all i guess the harddrive isn't really failing, otherwise you'd have lots of I/O errors flying around and driving your kernel crazy. Sorry but i'm no Debian guru and i'm not experienced with these hardware issues. Maybe linuxquestions.org or some hardware forum might be of more use. don't forget to specify the computer hardware. HTH, nuno -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
lenny won't boot after re-install
Hi, Yesterday I had to re-install lenny on my gateway desktop computer. I had totally messed up my prior install, and wanted to start clean. The install (from dvd1) went very smoothly, however, when I reboot the system just sits there. It doesn't ever seem to boot at all. I am blind, so I cannot look at the screen and see if there are any messages displayed. I redid the installation a couple of times just to make sure I had done everything correctly. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this system back on its feet? -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 | Mobile: +1 520 271 7608 Oracle JDeveloper Quality Assurance | Tucson, Arizona Green Oracle http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: lenny won't boot after re-install
Hi Nuno, I followed the instructions from this page: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for something to load. I am wondering if my harddrive is failing. Any tips on how to test/fix it are appreciated. -Original Message- From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 3:16 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: lenny won't boot after re-install 2009/4/24 Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com: I guess that is my problem (what are the usual suspects)? Me neither, i was just shooting blanks :) You say you installed the system (repeatedly), so i assume you got as far as Let's reboot into your new system. I never had a system failing at that point... It's hard to guess: your boot-loader config? The MBR's messed up? Since I am blind, I am not sure how I will pull down the gnome livecd and see what I can do from there. Don't know what you mean by gnome live cd, anyway i suggested the liveCD from Linux From Scratch[1], which is meant as a base for building a linux distro: thus, it only has the bare essencials (no X) and is good for troubleshooting. I'm sure you can navigate their site. Good luck. Cheers, Nuno [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
livecd accessibility
Hi all: Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wasn't sure which list would be better for this question. Does the current i386 livecd have any accessibility support enabled in it? Is either orca, or brltty installed and/or running on boot? -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 | Mobile: +1 520 271 7608 Oracle JDeveloper Quality Assurance | Tucson, Arizona Green Oracle http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
problems installing lenny on dell laptop
Hi all, I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display without a problem onto my gateway desktop system. However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600 laptop, it is not recognizing the usb connection to either my external keyboard or braille display until well into the install process. Since the usb is not recognized, the installer does not give me a choice of a text-only install it only has the graphhical install. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. BTW: I had created a livecd from my lenny install on the desktop and it boots up fine with usb support at the appropriate point on the laptop. The remastersys-installer doesn't allow me to select the laptop's hard drive so I can't install from there. -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 | Mobile: +1 520 271 7608 Oracle JDeveloper Quality Assurance | Tucson, Arizona Green Oracle http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
where to download sid?
Hi, I am very new to the debian world, but someone suggested I try out sid. I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from? I found the lenny cd's but not sid. -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 | Mobile: +1 520 271 7608 Oracle JDeveloper Quality Assurance | Tucson, Arizona Green Oracle http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
no sound on lenny
Hello, I installed lenny yesterday on a desktop system I have. I installed it without a graphical desktop since I am not currently interested in anything other than console-based applications, and it is an experimental environment. After teh install, I ran: apt-get update then apt-get install alsa-oss alsa-utils alsa-tools I then ran $ alsaconf to setup my sound card (an onboard intel hda ich6 audio chipset). I looked at /etc/modprobe.d/sound, and the sound card is listed. I ran $ modprobe snd_pcm_oss I then tried running: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav It says it ran, but I hear nothing out of the speakers. I then ran alsamixer and turned the volume up to 100% on everything, and reran the aplay command but still nothing. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 | Mobile: +1 520 271 7608 Oracle JDeveloper Quality Assurance | Tucson, Arizona Green Oracle http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
