Re: [expert] which packages have these...
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: libcrypto.so.0 is needed by kdebase-1.94-5mdk libssl.so.0 is needed by kdebase-1.94-5mdk There's a new search function on rpmfind.net that easily answers questions like this. BTW, those are both in openssl-0.9.5a Hope this helps. -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] online buying
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Steve Young wrote: i'd like to set up a web site to sell the surge protectors my company makes, what all is involved in setting up a site for online buying? Pretty general question, so I'll give you a pretty general answer, and I'll probably forget something. Build your content. Build your website, I use php and mysql for this sort of stuff. Where you go next depends on how you do it. If you use a web hosting site, they may bundle a storefront and secure server. I'd look into using them in that case. If you host your own server, you'll need to get someone to process credit cards for you. People use various solutions, some like Cybercash, some like others. This aspect of a commerce driven site is in my opinion the biggest pain. There's some low cost companies out there, but we've been burned with really clueless design and poor service. We're switching over to skipjack.com, which we get through the merchant account with our bank. They've been generally helpful and seem unusually clueful. Depending on how much you like the pages and service you get with your credit card processing solution (whether their pages integrate acceptably with yours, and you get the information you need back from them and back to the customer) you'll decide whether you need to run a secure web server. Using a secure server adds to your flexibility, but requires a bit more preparation and management than apache alone, and simply running a store front does NOT necessarily mean you need a secure server. That ought to give an idea, though not necessarily a good one. Generally, this is a pretty big project, and should be treated that way. Good Luck, -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] are you so insecure
Hey, Hey, Hey, everybody! Dr. Powell was responding to a thread found in the archives here: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/msg23073.html which may not have been meant as particularly nasty, but certainly came across that way to me. In short, he took it personally and got mad. That just proves that he's human. Realize that it can be quite difficult in the hard sciences to get a PhD, and many people who have achieved that goal are proud of it, and in the physical sciences signing you mail as Dr. So And So, PhD is not uncommon. Twit filtering Dr. Powell would seem overkill at this point. I have had to twit several people on this list, however, and I must say after several years on various Linux/Unix mailing lists/newsgroups, this group has gotten nastier than the norm several times lately. Maybe we need a good emacs vs. vi thread to get it out of our systems grin. -burk (Disclaimer: after 13 years as a analytical/physical biochemist, I think unix system adminstration is much easier! It pays better too! ) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] web/email server
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Am I correct in assuming that POP, SMTP, Qmail, and Postfix run on top of sendmail?? Nope. postfix or Qmail replaces sendmail. SMTP is the protocol used by postfix, Qmail or sendmail. POP is a separate protocol, which allows transfer of mail data to clients computer independent of smtp. The popd to run the server side of this protocol is in the imap package, the client side is in netscape, outlook, eudora, pegasus, etc. Hope this helps. -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html
Re: [expert] web/email server
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Smith wrote: POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail through the server. What do you mean "when remotely checking mail"? I'm not clear what you're trying to say. Sendmail is used by 75 % of server owners. I wouldn't be surprised if it were more than that, but that doesn't make it better. I think comparing sendmail to either qmail or postfix is like comparing apples and oranges. I think most people who are new to postmasterdom might do better off starting with postfix. YMMV -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Postfix woes
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, bob wrote: Hello, I have a couple problems with my Postfix mail server on Mandrake 7.1. #1. I was messing with some files, and accidentally "broke" the ability to send mail to different virtual domains on my own machine. I can receive mail from the internet ok, and I can send mail to other machines ok, but when I send mail to my virtual hosts, I get a "mail loops back to me". Have you read this section of the PostFix FAQ?: h~ttp://postfix.sparks.net/faq.html#virtual_setup (The part about not having virtuals in mydestination) This USED TO WORK! I just temporarily fixed it by adding entries in the /etc/sendmail.cf file, but what could have happened? I know my Woah! Is that a typo? Do you mean /etc/postfix/main.cf ? /etc/postfix/virtual table is good, with all the domains and email addresses in there correctly. Could I have somehow enabled the old SENDMAIL program, instead of postfix's equivalent? Seems unlikely to me, but you could always kill all the smtpd's and start postfix from scratch to be sure, I think you'd have to do something really funky to get postfix to start sendmail's smtpd (maybe installing sendmail over the top of postfix?) #2. I'm still having problems with Majordomo running under postfix. Sorry, I've never run a mailing list. Hope this helped, -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html
Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefaulteditor so I can TRASH IT?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ron Marriage wrote: While my favorite editor is emacs, I have to say that anyone that considers themselves an expert owes it to themselves to learn vi(m). An emacser saying a good thing about vi! What IS the world coming to! There are times when only it will do the job, partly because it might be the only editor available but because it is always included in every dist. or UNIX. Think of it as a basic skill that has to be learned. Very True. It should also be noted that all programmers should _try_ emacs for a few weeks sometime in their life. Many find it to be a life changing experience. If you've never used emacs, you won't believe what a text editor can do. (NB: I use vi in my Unix editing, not everyone is bitten by the emacs bug after trying it grin.) This is the "Experts" list and anyone here might prefer to use pico on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean they will not have use of vi(m), and they should begin learning it to be ready for the day they move into the heady relm of expert in linux. Absolutely. If you get thrown into managing ANY other Unix, and if you manage Linux at work you very well might, then you NEED vi. Old Sun boxes without enough hard drive to install anything else to new OS X boxes where compiling anything is iffy at best have vi. It runs on any terminal emulator. You may not love it, but it IS an essential tool. Frankly I'm a bit surprised that such a debate even exists on this list. While I could see it occuring on the newbie list for those that intend to exist entirely in their X desktop, In the experts list I'd only expect to see such differences between the Vi and Emacs editor crowd. LOL /2 cents Oh no! vi vs. emacs! I've seen usenet threads get into the high hundreds on that one. Arrrgh! Run away! Run away! -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] server question
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Just concerned about the firewall setup I suppose... Not quite certain how to set it up to allow email in, web surfing in, and still protect my internal network. I'm assumming the usual IPMasquerading/Firewall set up here. If the firewall box is your mail server/ web server you won't be letting that traffic onto your localnet except in reply to your requests. If you use something like pmfirewall, setting up the firewall is almost easy, and it has configuration options for masquerading. In terms of performance, you need to scale your machine to your needs, but the average home user masquerading a home network (say 4 machines and roughly 20-30 machine-hours of surfing a day) can be adequately handled by a 486/50 WITH a webserver serving a couple hundred hits a day. (personal experience talking here). One concern to have ... if you have the semi-static IP addresses typical of cable modems, you may loose mail if you get renumbered. I'd host my mail somewhere with a static IP address. The machine mentioned above has no problems handling the above load while acting as my MX backup for my company, and occasionally getting a few hundred messages in a few hours. (I run postfix on every mail server I manage). just a datapoint for you, -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] configuring an e-mail server
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Steven Boothe wrote: Greetings fellow listees, can anyone help or point me in the right direction? I'm trying to setup an e-mail server to replace our current one (sendmail on NT). The box I am running is: Mandrake 7.2 w/ postfix 2.2.15-4mdksecure #1 SMP Wed May 10 14:16:48 CEST 2000 i686 unknown I've got it all working to receive mail if I type into the mail header: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I am having trouble getting it to recieve mail if I type in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ? It sounds to me like postfix isn't accepting the mail for domain.com. I would check the mydestination parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf. it should have $mydomain in the right hand side of the equation (alone; not prepended with localhost or mail or smtp, although you probably want those too) . Don't forget to give a 'postfix reload' command. On my mandrake system, /var/log/maillog is where postfix complains about problems. I'd run a "tail -f /var/log/maillog" using that box as your mail server and see what it complains about. Good luck, burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Mail server names MX settings
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: Can someone tell me how to edit my MX settings for my domain registrar? Say my firewall/web server/mail server box is named "homer", and my domain is thesimpsons.net. I have entries for "Host Name" and "Mail Server" that I need to fill out with my domain registrar, and I will be using Postfix as my mail server software. I'm not quite sure what you're filling out, but the MX records of one of my domains look like this. This means that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes preferentially to the mail server at torg.kalinweb.net, and when that host doesn't reply as a valid mail server (say my T1 goes down or postfix dies) it goes to burkins. ; mail exchangers kalinweb.net. IN MX 10 torg.kalinweb.net. kalinweb.net. IN MX 90 burkins.ne.mediaone.net How do I fill these fields out? I would guess that in my example the host would be kalinweb.net and the mailserver would be torg.kalinweb.net, but you should probably ask for help from the registrar. -- Stephen Good Luck, -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
