evolution email

[Harry R.]

Oh well, 

After trying for a couple of days to get Evolution NOT to return those infamous 
sync errors 
that it has been doing for years, after reading a LOT on the Net about this and 
other evolution 
problems, after trying to import my old mailboxes (does not work always, or 
actually, it almost 
never works), after trying to get it to understand an Mbox layout, and doing 
evrything again 
and again, it now freezes at random and even crashed at typing email number 2. 

Evolution is I am sorry to say probably the most disappointing email client I 
have ever worked 
with. Back to the basics.

H.

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Re: how to get username use another home directory

[Harry R.]

If I understand the question correctly, here is my 2 cents. 
I simply move the original '/home'  dir to a partition of my liking then create 
a symlink from / to 
that partition. Then I rename /home to something else. Has worked perfectly for 
me so far

H.


On 16 Jan 2009 at 10:02, Globe Trotter wrote:

> > I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different
> > partition?
> > That seems more elegant to me (and would work better with
> > SELinux as
> > well, though you might not care if you disable SELinux or
> > run in
> > permissive mode :).
> 
> Thanks! I wonder that myself, sometimes, but it is for historical reasons. In 
> the days that there was no rpms, I used to keep locally installed programs 
> there and did not want it wiped out with every new tinkering. I still use 
> some of them, but all options are set to use /usr/local/trotter, etc.  
>  
> > > Previously, I would add skip the create user step and
> > log in as root
> > > and then create user with directory using
> > system-config-users.
> > > However, this is apparently no longer allowed, and I
> > am required to
> > > create an user. How do I get this user to have its
> > "home" in
> > > /usr/local/trotter? I guess one way out is to create a
> > fake user and
> > > then go in, use system-config-users and then delete
> > the fake user.
> > > Is there a more elegant way?
> > 
> > This is the sort of task I'd do from a text console
> > (but then, I say
> > that sort of thing a lot ;).  If you create the user
> > trotter at first
> > boot, use CTRL-ALT-F2 at the login screen to get to a
> > console.  Then
> > login as root and use something like:
> > 
> > # usermod -m --home /usr/local/trotter trotter
> > 
> > The -m option moves the current home dir to the new dir. 
> > Obviously,
> > you don't want trotter logged in when you do this.
> 
> Thanks! However, does it not wipe out the /usr/local/trotter directory. I 
> just want to get rid of the /home/trotter and make everything point to 
> /usr/local/trotter directory (which exists from an earlier installation).
> 
> I haven't actually tried this, but am just wondering.
> 
> Isn't it is a better option to allow for a home directory to be chosen at 
> installation? I have never figured out why Fedora does not allow this choice 
> (with a default).
> 
> Trotter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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connectivity problems with FC10

[Harry R.]

Friends, I have installed FC10 (fresh install, new partitions, format all) and 
installation went 
fine, but the network connections.

I can connect to all machines on my own network, but Firefox 3 cannot, claiming 
that 
whatever http address I type in is wrong. Opera however works fine, and I can 
succesfully 
ping each and every website I can think off. 

Also, yum cannot install anything (it cannot find its repositories), evolution 
does not work 
(cant find my smtp provider) etc. 

I think I checked everything, resolve, hosts, ifconfig, route, installed the 
package three times 
now, checked cables, been reading on the Net for hours and I am now at the 
point of going 
mad. 

Anybody else having problems with FC10?



H.

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