Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-29]0032.22 -Tue25Mar03-1240 Tony Preston wrote: RH 6.2 was a totally different story, it recognized the new stuff, forgot about the old stuff and booted normally (even recognized the change in video cards!). I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience).

Re: Mial Readers for Redhat.

2003-03-15 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-30]9984.08 -Sat15Mar03-2136 Mike Watson wrote: I like and use kmail. I've tried Sylpheed and Evolution and dislike both. If Mozilla supported pgp, I'd use it over Kmail---maybe. Have you tried the claws branch of Sylpheed? Much better than vanilla sylpheed IMHO. See

Sendmail on RH8.0 from CL

2003-03-09 Thread Johann Snyman
Hi! Well, I have RH8.0 mostly up and running, but I have a problem or two. I hope somebody might be able to help me out here. Sendmail: If I send mail from sylpheed, (like this one) my adress is correct, eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use sendmail as MTA when sending from sylpheed. It sends the

Re: Sendmail on RH8.0 from CL

2003-03-09 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-30]9953.10 -Sun09Mar03-1655 Cowles, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: Johann Snyman Snip How do I tell sendmail to always send as [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Add the following line to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc MASQUERADE_AS(`mweb.co.za')dnl SNIP Thanks Steve

Re: What to backup

2003-03-06 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-30]9938.21 -Thu06Mar03-1726 nate wrote: I usually backup /var /etc /home /usr/local /usr/src and /root sometimes more, sometimes less, depends on the purpose of the system. If I upgrade (Clean install) from RH7.1 to RH 8.0, can I just copy my backup /etc into the new /etc? I

Re: What to backup

2003-03-06 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-30]9938.98 -Thu06Mar03-2107 Bret Hughes wrote: before I upgrade I make a backup of all files that are either not a part of an rpm or that have changed if they are a part of an rpm. To identify them I run a perl script I wrote that an be found at: