Gowator

main.cf linuxmigrations:/etc/postfix# hostname -f linuxmigrations.hd.free.fr linuxmigrations:/etc/postfix# hostname linuxmigrations.hd.free.fr Thanks.... YEP I bet its the NAT... :D However, Im still baffled... I have 25 open but not 110 but I can send mail but not receive it? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

uggh I'm an idiot... I just looked again and I posted the /etc/aliases from this machine not the server! The server has no /etc/aliases ! (resolv.conf is the same though) /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 linuxmigrations.hd.free.fr linuxmigrations Meanwhile I'm getting reports back from my ISP for the account ( tried sending these from) This is the part always gets me...I think Im developing a mental block on mail servers!

:unsure: - I've run a Mandriva server a few times, it actually works quite well and was easy to install and set up. Webmin is a nice addition and helps tweak things a bit more, but it has it's own faults. I'm not sure why you feel the need to make claims like this, Gowator, but this thread was about webmin and not Mandriva's tools...might I suggest we stick to that topic please? Thanks :) The point is if you use mandriva then webmin is probably "as good as it gets" apart from hand editing... Its not behind, certainly not in comparison with the drak wizards... it certainly has faults but on the whole its a much better tool than something that hides what file is being edited... Nor is it locked to one distro or even OS... Now Suse is pretyy much toast as a distro there are only very few distro's screwing up linux with distro specific config tools which break non distro specific tools or vendor suppled tools like SWAT or CUPS-config So now is the renaissance of non distro specific tools...IMHO the death of Suse (non too soon). which are/were the lifeblood of linux or OS in general... However the main point is I don't know anyone using Mandriva as a serious server distro... it might be nice to play/learn but its no Debian stable or Solaris etc. hence spending time learning mandriva tools is a waste of time for professional use wheras learning webmin is an excellent start whether you use RH/FC/Debian or Solaris but most of all it works across all of them. One reason webmin is so good is because so many server apps are supported at the same time (contemperaneously) as any stable release (as in the SAMBA example)... so unlike the drak wizards it doesn't go breaking stuff.

Please post the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/aliases for me... /etc/aliases resolv.conf is pretty simple nameserver 212.27.54.252 nameserver 212.27.53.252

[OK, I give up on sendmail... I figure postfix should work anyway (it extrernally looks like sendmail) So I tried that.... and Im still stuck!!!

rpm -U skype-1.3.0.53-1mdk.i586.rpm

You make it sound like its not updated... Version 1.310 (28 November 2006) Compared to the mandriva tools its a dream... at least it doesn't break say SWAT it just says it doesn't know the directive.. Last SAMBA update Version 1.280 (16 June 2006) This corresponded with the PRE_RELEASE of 10 Jul 2006 Samba 3.0.23 Available for Download last stable major release... since then its only bugfixes to 3.0.23d... I don't know what version Mandriva are installing but I doubt its any newer than the current version. Unlike the Mandriva crap it tells you exactly what files its using and in most cases allows you to hand edit them AS WELL ... within the GUI. Also it works, unlike most of the mandriva server tools and it also runs on STABLE OS's (i.e. NOT Mandriva). I know many sysads who use it on huge multi platform networks daily... I don't know anyone who would seriously try and run Mandriva as a server in anything past mandriva 9? (and that includes mandriva) ...so the server tools inMandriva are beyond useless... EVEN MANDRIVA can't run a POST 9 Mandriva as a server.. The probably tried installing 2007 ??? who knows.?? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?ur...ww.mandriva.com So the bottom line, if you want to run a server don't Run Mandriva ... hence their tools are pointless and obviously crap since they don't even eat their own dog food!

Just point a browser at https://localhost:10000 you can bookmark it if you like or konqueror https://localhost:10000

Can anyone tell me why this is being delivered? Its a simple CLI mail from root to postmaster where postmaster is aliased to root... to test the mail.. Note the domain name TWICE I had this all working nicely and then played about... I literally wanted a specific mail user to receive mail that a php function picks up and posts for me... andit was all working but I used an existing user for the mail... then i though I needed a special user... made one and messed about (not sure what)... and now I have no delivery to any users from external and this internal one which worked had the domain part twice!

Well finance is rearing its ugly head.... although you're correct that philosophy is playing a major part. Kano needs to make money somehow and Kanotix isn't providing it but sucking up his time to make money elsewhere. slh (main kernel developer) absolutely refuses to move to a *buntu base... (as do significant users) both on philosophical and practical reasons... as does slam who takes care of the website etc. Most of the developers either prefer a pure Debian base or nothing..(or at least keeping with a pure distro like slackware but not a "leech" distro which is the term being bandied around IRC {I don't really agree on this term for *buntu but I can see where it comes from}). (from my interpretation) and I don't think kano really wants to move the codebase but its simply an issue of time/resources/money...over-riding philosophy whereas for others with other forms of income its philosophy overriding financial ???

I had great problems with the FF2 from Mozilla ... and because of the Debian/Firefox issue I had to wait until today to get FF2 aka Iceweasel from the debian repo's.... What a HUGE difference.... many if not all the problems I have been having are suddenly solved!

Yes this community grew out of Mandriva users, indeed you can read the sotry on the front page but we will gladdly help anyone with any linux distro... I'm a big fan of "A distro is for Christmas, not for life" and Mandriva is a fine start in your linux adventure but it doesn't need to be your last. Many of us have "graduated" to different distro's for one reason or another but I would suggest, choose a distro and stick with it for a year... or until you feel you have mastered it enough to seek more challenges and perhaps want a bit more control.. Mandriva is aimed at new linux users so its a great place to start.. but if you find frustrations or problems its best to persevere and solve them instead of trying another distro and finding a different problem. Good luck and have fun :D

Dude, I agree.... added to this were users going to the forum and asking for help when vector was leeching their tree. I'm just saying, because of this in the past Sayayon users might experience some hostility, especially if they are not running their own tree. IMHO you can fix anything on the Gentoo forum.... there are a lot of experienced users so it seems like a good resource to loose. I second what iph said..... For a server you will find it very rare not to find a package with the options compiled how you want... in Debian. You can choose between 10 apache packages depending what you want compiled in.... (for instance) and obviously you can always get the source ... but I have never needed that for server packages, there is ample choice...

Exactly. Happened too many times for me. Now I run Arch, because honestly it's just as fast as Gentoo. If your goal is to learn and you have the patience required to go through gentoo's install, I suggest doing LFS instead. I think they are both fine. in their own ways... and the speed issue is really moot... even arch specific compiling doesn't really help that much... 90% of the time at least... and if your not an expert then you end up using a genkernel or just taking safe options anyway.... in real life this doesn't seem to actually show much speed increase. 90% of my install is i386... sure kmail takes 1/1000th of a sec longer ??? so the only real optimised stuff I have is MMedia... I use the kanotix kernels that slh makes because he's significantly better than I am at applying the right patches and optimisations ... and these are on the fly compiled... (if you like)... same as the nvidia driver (again of you like) So once you dispense with that I don't see the mileage in portage? SO yeah, I'd say why not arch.... Nothing wrong with Gentoo IMHO but its somewhat of a "play about distro" but in the educational sense Add to this the reaction of most gentooers to distro's built on gentoo using their portage tree and I wouldn't want to turn up on the gentoo forum asking for help! I saw quite a few vector-linux users told where to go .... which is fair enough really .. but from user POV...Sabayon will need to take care of this themselves.

LOL, that's kinda what I meant.... except it can be fun and you learn a lot ... wheras Im wondering if its all done for you then what's the point ... To me the Gentoo "compile-every-living-thing-until-you-just-wanna-jump-off-a-very-tall-building" is not actually like that... at first.... its fun and the problem is it then starts to suck you in... (like this forum perhaps) until one day you just need to install something... and you end up spending hours tweaking this that and the other. As a way to waste time I'd recommend it highly over mass TV or many other things.... because it is educational... but in the same way I think you either become a "fan boy" or like mystie is doing look for something else when you just ant something to work... I think it might be good in this context...? (I dunno I said might) if you are using Gentoo but sometimes just need something that works... since if its basically gentoo with installer and tools at least its not a mind set change...

just out of interest here is a PII 667 with 64Mb RAM Actually a XBOX... its no rocket but it runs... top - 15:44:08 up 9 days, 23:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 58 total, 1 running, 57 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.9% idle Mem: 57960k total, 56580k used, 1380k free, 3760k buffers Swap: 249992k total, 32900k used, 217092k free, 12004k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9420 root 19 0 932 932 744 R 5.7 1.6 0:00.06 top 1 root 8 0 120 92 68 S 0.0 0.2 0:04.10 init 2 root 8 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keventd 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xbox_extsmi 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.75 kswapd 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kupdated 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.33 kjournald 51 root 8 0 1544 60 60 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 devfsd 294 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 617 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 lirc_dev 880 daemon 9 0 308 248 248 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 portmap 1215 root 9 0 428 360 360 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.00 lircd 1217 root 9 0 328 288 288 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 lircmd 1314 daemon 9 0 452 396 396 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 atd 1331 root 8 0 328 248 232 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.09 cron 1350 root 8 0 296 232 232 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 inetd 1367 root 9 0 924 144 144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 klogd 1535 root 9 0 384 172 172 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 sshd 1555 root 9 0 524 480 476 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.34 syslogd

So far as I know this is true....so wait for others but I'd say if you intend to use OS-X :D Ive been toying with the idea myself and I pretty much think if I have a new laptop it'll be a mac... They are pretty cheap for what you get, sure you can find a budget laptop cheaper but for the same quality HP or IBM you are probably paying more... (depending how you judge)... Build quality is excellent etc. as is battery life etc. and much as I haven't used windows in years OS-X is great....

I haven't tried it but you piqued my interest :D Ok the 5 minute install sounds cool Gentooers don't seem to like this much.... but anyway....Vector linux seems to be somewhat badly regarded... Gentoo is a fine distro IMHO... but one of the best things about it is its 100% pro-user choice and learning. Personally I don't see portage as a huge advantage... for usability... more as a hobby... Super tweaked user compiles don't add much speed and often the opposite if you don't know what your doing... So to me Gentoo is a great enthusiasts distro for people who like to play with it... break it and fix it.... but using it on a server? Im not going to make world.... so.... Sabayon might be really cool, it might be a great 2nd distro if your using gentoo? (break gentoo and have Sabayon waiting) but the questions are then.... Is it competetly compatible once installed? As you know I like kantotix.... but I also think knoppix is great! BUT knoppix isn't pure Debian once installed, it retains some weird stuff from the liveCD... What I really like about kanotix is the 12 min install into a PURE debian env.... If it works in Debian Testing/Unstable it works in kanotix so its really a quick way to get 90% installed very quick... On top of this my server runs Debian stable... so having the two as "main" distro's work for me... often I try stuff on my unstable machine before messing with the server... or equally I can boot the server (after plugging in a mouse and keyb) with the live CD if I ever need... The real question for me is what exactly is Sabayon?

You would just have had to run the mkinitrd and make a new one...

I nominate this as answer and post of the week! ianw gave all the right answers but just as importantly serge asked the right questions and did exactly "to the letter" ....

If its not like really really obvious ask.. but its something like SHOW_FLASHSCREEN = "1" it should be obvious, if its not there then its something else... like I say I prefer it on so I could google the line but I really think you'll just see it :D

Like John says your messing in the wrong place :D In linux the GUI is last to come up.... but Mandriva give you a pretty screen to look at in the meantime... :D but its basically a framebuffer screen .... think about like a DOS game or say the partition magic screen etc. The "bootloader" is selecting a resolution .. i think you can just escape and it drops trying to shows what s called a flash screen.... Once inside you can turn this off or fix it so give the escape a go :D if this works then we know what we're dealing with...

should be under the [driver] section for the card in xorg.conf.... AFAIK in previous versions its on by default so I would expect Mandriva just added the line that turns it off Its a boolean but if its commented out the default is to show the screen so I'd suggest just commenting it out with a # (least fiddly and I leave mine on for the same reasons)

Iph, is that not only in DVI? I think..... using VGA 15 pin it does because the driver has to process it.... and for instance you can get a different screen location(higher, lower, wider etc.) and the dpi certainly makes a huge difference.... What you say makes sense but its not fitting my experience...