tyme

I know you like to play devil's advocate tyme but do you always have to be so negative? How about offering suggestions about how to make the board successful?

If I had suggestions I would provide them. Since I don't, I'm bringing up possible issues so that possible solutions/workarounds/whatever can be thought of. I'm not trying to be negative, I'm just trying to be realistic and point out areas where I think you may run into problems.

And besides, you started your own forum and got members from this board to go to yours. You didn't seem to be concerned about splitting up the community then.

You're right, when I tried to start ILC I didn't concern myself with splitting the community. But then I never created ILC with the intent of it being a companion to this site, nor did I care if people from this community came there. At the time I was extremely fed up with some things that were occurring here at MUsB. But I digress...

Plus you guys need to realize that Mandriva has gone way down in popularity and as a result our stats on this board have taken a drastic decrease in numbers.

I didn't know we were trying to win some popularity contest? As far as Mandriva going down in popularity, with it's latest release I've heard friends of mine talking it up - people who used to talk bad about it.

Like I said a new board could be a way to keep the community together.

Or possibly split it even more? Gotta be careful with that.

So you think Mandria provides better support than we do?

I'm 100% positive that's not what he was saying. This forum is distro specific (aside from one section), so I'm pretty sure he wasn't commenting on this forums level of support.

 

That being said, I do think that having a forum that covers multiple distributions could become a bit...hard to manage. What distributions do you include? How do you handle posts that may answer a question for all distributions, but is posted for a specific distribution? There's a lot to be thought of. Maybe the reason linuxquestions.org is so problematic is because of these difficulties. Just something to think about :)

#START=yes
#MECHANISMS="pam"
#SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a rimap -r"
#SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTHD_OPTS} -O localhost"
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="-m /var/run/saslauthd -r -a pam"

As you can see I've tried a few different things here.

And we're gong to need a banner so hopefully you guys can help us out with that. Otherwise paul will do something! :unsure:

Gonna need to know the name of the site first ;)

WD has always said they don't support Linux on the hard drives (unless they changed this recently). Seems like all Seagate is doing is saying the same thing (except also formatting it NTFS). Probably just means if you install linux, have a problem, and contact their tech support you'll get the "go away, we don't support your kind here" response.

Not sure if auth is working or not, now i'm getting relaying denied when i try to send (to anyone but *@tymnia.net).

 

I'm seeing this in auth.log:

Apr 21 12:24:45 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: sql auxprop plugin using mysql engine

Apr 21 12:24:45 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter supplied

Apr 21 12:24:45 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb

Not sure if it's a problem (shouldn't be using ldapdb, should it?)

 

mail.log says:

Apr 21 12:24:45 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: connect from ptr-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.wescom.org[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]

Apr 21 12:24:46 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ptr-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.wescom.org[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]: 554 5.7.1 <tyme81@gmail.com>: Relay access denied; from=<mark@tymnia.net> to=<tyme81@gmail.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]>

Apr 21 12:24:48 tymnia postfix/smtpd[29051]: disconnect from ptr-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.wescom.orgXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]

(X's replace IP's)

note that I'm using 64-bit arch on this server, so there may be some differences if you grabbed 32-bit.

Adapted slightly of course, but works.

I'm sure it does...I think I've just either missed a piece or there is some other difference in how arch does it that I'm missing.

 

To disable local mail, edit master.cf and look for the local line and comment it out.

Thanks for the tip :)

checking auth.log seems to have revealed the source of my issue:

Apr 18 05:37:46 tymnia postfix/smtpd[27070]: sql_select option missing

Now to figure out where in the configs i need to set this option...hmm...so far google hasn't provided an answer (aside from removing the sql ability for sasl, but that's not what i want to do).

I mean considering it's a work in progress, just what is so dire about it?

I think the problem is that it seems to be a "work in progress", yet it's supposed to be a "stable release". I think they pushed out KDE4 before it was really complete (the parts that were shipped may have been complete, but a lot of stuff was still missing, from what I've been told).

Now that I'm aware of this... ;) I like to know how this feature got switch on? :huh:

In my experience it's on by default. I always have to turn it off when I install a distribution (at least, Mandriva) or else I get static out of my speakers. Didn't think of it in this instance because you didn't report any static (which is what I would have expected).

I also found that setting myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf causes mail to be delivered to the local users and not the virtual users. :unsure:

ugh. No progress. Setting this:

mynetworks = my.ip.net.work/24, 127.0.0.0/8

In /etc/postfix/main.cf (following the Gentoo wiki) made smtp essentially unresponsive from localhost. I think some settings from the Gentoo wiki are causing problems...I'm not sure. Will have to get back to this tomorrow night.

[edit - apparently I was wrong, Thunderbird was set to use my old smtp server, which is why I thought it was working (it's not) ]

 

now I'm not sure what's wrong...i could receive email before, but now I can't receive or send. When I attempt to connect to SMTP via localhost the connection either gets closed within a few seconds (by the server - "foreign host") or if I attempt EHLO I get no response back. I've tried sending a few emails and they aren't arriving.

 

*sigh*...back to the drawing board.

thanks for the link...i'll try to sit down with that document tonight and see if i can get this configured correctly.

If you have anything on the system that you may need for your exams I wouldn't upgrade until after...don't want to accidentally b0rk something and end up losing necessary data...

I still seem to be missing a piece. I think postfix doesn't know how to authenticate the users...I'm not sure. Haven't had a lot of time to work on it just yet.

Well, no sound from the front jack (green) but sound from the rear channel jack (black). Hummm.

If you're getting sound out of one of the channels then it may be working, but may need configuring a bit. Check the output (green) from onboard for sound - if there's sound there, then something odd is happening. If not, try using a mixer to up the volumes on various channels, and also check what driver is being used (Hardware in the Control Center should say).

I'm working on setting up my server and I want to enable authentication before send for SMTP (Postfix). So far I've been able to get virtual mailboxes set up and working, but I can't find how to set postfix to authenticate these users before allowing them to send email. I want to do it this way so that I can avoid having an "completely" open relay while still being able to relay (so that users can send from any of the domains i host to anywhere).

 

Any suggestions on how to approach this? I've essentially followed these directions, save for setting it up to allow checking with other than just squirrelmail.

And a stupid question: How do they make the screenshots of the windows in the installation process? If the OS is not loaded yet, how do they run the program that captures the screen?

They might be using this method or they may be doing the install inside of a virtual machine and taking the screenshots with the host OS.

/dvd/device is most likely not the proper path to you dvd device, it's more likely to be /dev/[something] - what [something] is may be dependent on your system setup. try inserting a dvd and after it's accessible (mounted) run the mount command at the terminal to see what the proper device name is.

Running wine as root is actually one of the worst ideas a human mind could ever produce... all windows viruses and exploits targetting your linux system.

Except that they wouldn't actually be targeting your Linux system, but rather the environment that wine creates for running the windows programs. Also, not every exploit would work - only a small subset that are in the base implementations that wine uses (which doesn't correlate to a full Windows install) and any exploits the program you are running has. Even so, it is highly unlikely that a virus/exploit would even work within wine and even less likely that it would be able to access and/or harm your linux install.

 

That's not to say you should run wine as root, but for the love of all things, don't go spreading FUD, k? thanks.

Oh... and change the router's password. Surprising how many people fail to do this.

I have DD-WRT on my router, you can change both username and password on that. If your router is one of the ones supported by DD-WRT I would highly suggest installing it (though, be warned, if you aren't careful you -might- brick the router).

I don't see the difference between that and doing su because in both cases you are working in a terminal with no gui interface.

I was simply clarifying that chroot makes you root, not saying there's anything wrong with using it.