On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:37 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation
Gentoo Linux has an RC system that has the concept of named
runlevels...
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008, Jeff Waugh wrote:
relayhost =
[usual.server.on.normal.port]:25
[usual.server.on.submission.port]:587
[fascist.university.server]:25
Huh, I didn't actually know it was possible to specify more than one
server there (I thought it had to be done with an MX
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:18:13 +1000
Craig Dibble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
maybe a quick and nasty shell/python/perl script to
change/update/swap your configuration file is what you need
Indeed.
I've done it this way in the past, usually just by running
Quoting Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Everyone's solutions have been pretty interesting[1]. I'm surprised
(although, yes, I knew) that there aren't less sysadmin-y solutions:
blocking outgoing SMTP is getting pretty common. I feel bad users who
just want to send their mail already and not
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008, Mick Pollard wrote:
To automate this 'script' you could build a simple smtp profile system.
Grub allows you to pass extra info to it and this is made available to
the init process in shell variable $CMDLINE.
People who suspend to RAM regularly won't find this as useful
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +1000, Mick Pollard wrote:
To automate this 'script' you could build a simple smtp profile system.
Grub allows you to pass extra info to it and this is made available to
the init process in shell variable $CMDLINE.
So would one access $CMDLINE in /etc/rc.local
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:25:30 +1000
Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +1000, Mick Pollard wrote:
To automate this 'script' you could build a simple smtp profile system.
Grub allows you to pass extra info to it and this is made available to
the init process
/proc/cmdline has the kernel parameters on my Ubuntu system
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Mick Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:25:30 +1000
Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +1000, Mick Pollard wrote:
To automate this 'script'
On 21/04/2008, at 5:22 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
People who suspend to RAM regularly won't find this as useful since
most
of the time they will be bypassing their bootloader. Search paths from
/etc/resolv.conf and wireless ESSIDs are the closest I've come to
establishing definitive
Mary Gardiner wrote:
Everyone's solutions have been pretty interesting[1]. I'm surprised
(although, yes, I knew) that there aren't less sysadmin-y solutions:
blocking outgoing SMTP is getting pretty common.
Networks *should* block outgoing SMTP from anything but authorised
mail servers. They
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008, Glen Turner wrote:
Networks *should* block outgoing SMTP from anything but authorised
mail servers. They should, however, allow IMAPS (993) and
Authenticated SMTP (587 to allow users to exchange mail with third-party
servers.
Indeed, but in this case they've blocked
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this particular case I
can use the university's
Quoting Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this
quote who=Mary Gardiner
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people get
their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible network and
normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this particular
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
maybe a quick and nasty shell/python/perl script to
change/update/swap your configuration file is what you need
Indeed.
I've done it this way in the past, usually just by running the script
manually, but you could attach it to an if-up script or even your
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:37 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are,
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