Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Sageev George wrote: > > > > While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, > > I've had no real success. What I have done so far is > > adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also > > did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. > > Durin

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mark Eichin wrote: > > > I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail. > > Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And > sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it > has improved, the phrase "a security hole you could drive a

Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sageev George wrote: > > While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, > I've had no real success. What I have done so far is > adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also > did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. > During the installation of the parport_pc

Printing Problems on Ultra 30

2002-06-17 Thread Sageev George
While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, I've had no real success. What I have done so far is adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. During the installation of the parport_pc module, I get the following messa

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:47:33AM +, Joseph S wrote: > Ben > > I wish to iptables because it can do policy routing, I have two adsl modems > and that is my main prority. Can't help you there. > I getting the impression sparc linux isn't there yet and still is some > development stage. No

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Joseph S
Ben I wish to iptables because it can do policy routing, I have two adsl modems and that is my main prority. I getting the impression sparc linux isn't there yet and still is some development stage. Can I use the kernel-2.4.17 or is this still to new. I can seem to compile kernels (2.4.18)

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:58:08AM +, Joseph S wrote: > > Ben > > can I use netfilter on the 2.2.x kernel. You can use ipchains. > also is the pcmcia sbus supported under linux sparc. Doubt it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversi

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Joseph S
Ben can I use netfilter on the 2.2.x kernel. also is the pcmcia sbus supported under linux sparc. Joseph From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joseph S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: rebooting problem Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:51:11 -0400 On Mon, Jun

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Mark Eichin
> I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail. Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it has improved, the phrase "a security hole you could drive a sendmail through" is still com

Printing problems still

2002-06-17 Thread Sageev George
I've had some progress with making my Ultra 30 print, but no real success. What I have done so far is adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. During the installation of the parport_pc module, I get the following messages: parport0: PC-s

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:53:21PM +, Joseph S wrote: > Hi All > > I have recently installed debian on a sparc 20. > > I have compiled kernel-2.4.18 without any problems with gcc-3.0.4. Two problems. 2.4.18 is not stable on sparc, and gcc-3.0.4 is not very good on sparc, especially for produ

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Nick Mitchell
Thanks everyone.I will be going with Postfix, no one had any complaints and I was leaning toward Postfix to begin with. I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail. Thanks again, Nick At 03:01 PM 6/17/2002, Simon Ross wrote: I run exim and found it to be very

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Simon Ross
I run exim and found it to be very easy to setup and run. Then again I only use it for a home office. You would have to look at the exim mail groups for more information about ISP use. SKaR On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 17:46, Ottavio Campana wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:27:38PM -0400, Dave Baker

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Ottavio Campana
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:27:38PM -0400, Dave Baker wrote: > > I run potato's postfix since 266 days and I've never had a problem. > > > > I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home > > computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. > > > > Exim's very flexible conf

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Dave Baker
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Nick Mitchell wrote: > > I know this is some what off list. But I work for an ISP and I am looking > > to build a new mailserver. I am looking for suggestions on a high volume > > mail ser

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Dave Baker
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:01:41PM -0400, Matt Soccio wrote: > This will create a kernel deb file in ../ and you can use dpkg to > install it. For the i386 version, there is also a make-kpkg > modules_image that returns nothing for me on an Ultra, but when I > install the new kernel, all of my mod

XFree86 4.2.0-0pre1v1 for PowerPC and SPARC at X Strike Force

2002-06-17 Thread Branden Robinson
Thanks to Michael Dänzer for the PowerPC packages, and to necrotic.deadbeast.net, newly upgraded to 256MB of RAM thanks to Ben Collins, for the SPARC packages. :) See the URL in my .sig. Note to PowerPC users: despite the implications of the 4.2 release notes, the nv driver is *not* compiled for

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Nick Mitchell wrote: > Any opinions on Exim or Postfix? Both work just fine on Sparc. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Ottavio Campana
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Nick Mitchell wrote: > I know this is some what off list. But I work for an ISP and I am looking > to build a new mailserver. I am looking for suggestions on a high volume > mail server. Any Ideas? I would like to stay away from sendmail as the MTA. > An

Re: rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Matt Soccio
Joseph, I am not sure what exactly is going wrong, but this is correct for most other distros, and I bumped my head against it for a while too. I got the kernel-package deb and used the make-kpkg command to build my own kernels successfully. Here's the basics: apt-get install kernel-package cd

Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Nick Mitchell
I know this is some what off list. But I work for an ISP and I am looking to build a new mailserver. I am looking for suggestions on a high volume mail server. Any Ideas? I would like to stay away from sendmail as the MTA. Any opinions on Exim or Postfix? Thanks, Nick ~~~

rebooting problem

2002-06-17 Thread Joseph S
Hi All I have recently installed debian on a sparc 20. I have compiled kernel-2.4.18 without any problems with gcc-3.0.4. I copy the System.map to /boot/System.map-2.4.18 and vmlinux as /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18. I add these to the /etc/silo.conf. When I try to reboot, I can choose this kernel a