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A Postfix mystery
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

I have just replaced Exim with Postfix. There are a few things not yet working as I want them but there is also one oddity. Whenever the system sends an internal mail to root, which is then re-directed to me as a user, it tries to send the same email to a number of non-existant users: <"$h_subject:contains"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "$h_subject:contains" <endif(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "endif" <"fax stats"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "fax stats" <then(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "then" <if(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "if" <elif(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "elif" <finish(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "finish" <"facsimile received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile received" <error_message(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "error_message" <"facsimile not received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile not received" <save(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "save" These users are obviously rubbish but I have no idea where it is finding this stuff. This problem does not occur with emails to or from the internet. Some ideas as to where to look would be appreciated. Barry Samuels

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Hidden Knowledge
by Keith Watson 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

I've just been having a tidy up of my ALUG Main mail folder. There's a long list of submissions I've kept because they contained info. that I thought might be useful. It then occurred to me that all this info. is already in the mailing list archives anyway. Could we make some sort of search facility available for the archives? or is it better to download the consolidated list and search it locally? If so what's the best way? Keith ____________ BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Kernel Config for Dialup Clients
by Keith Watson 25 Dec '02

25 Dec '02

I'm having a number of silly little problems with my Debian install when setting up the PPP dial up connections. I won't go into detail because I don't think they are the main issue. Trouble is that I've rebuilt the kernel to match my hardware config. In the process I've taken out a lot of the server side networking support as I only intend to use the system as a dialup client. So apart from async PPP support and iptables (firewall) what is the minimum kernel config and services required for a dialup client only system? Oh! and Happy Christmas (Seasons Greeting for the PC minded :o) ) and a Happy New Year, Keith ____________ COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Moving directories to a new partition
by Ian Douglas 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

The Linux partition on my triple boot Windows/Linux PC has gradually been filling up over the past few months and is now 98% full with just 40MB remaining. I have therefore had a clear out on my Windows partition to create some free space and have been able to create two new small partitions which I can now use with Linux to ease some of the strain. My current setup is: /dev/hda1 Windows /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda7 / I would like to change this to: /dev/hda1 Windows /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda7 /usr /dev/hda12 / /dev/hda13 /home I have formatted these two new partitions and moved /home from hda7 to hda13 ok and deleted it from hda7. I now want to move everything else apart from the /usr directory from hda7 to hda12. What is the best way to tell Linux to move everything except this one directory from one partition to another (hda12 is a lot smaller than hda7 and is not big enough to hold /usr even temporarily)? Ian.

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Re[2]: [Alug] I thought adding extra functionality to my mail system would be easy
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

xs(a)kittenz.org wrote: > > What doesn't work is if I try to send an email from machine2 (Postfix) > out to the internet via machine1 (Exim). Is that likely to be a problem > with the setup on machine2 or machine1? > > it is hard to say. where does this error come from?

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: Welcome to the "main" mailing list (Digest mode)
by B.E.D.Ellis-00＠student.lboro.ac.uk 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Greetings Penguin Worshippers, Just signed up for your group since I've decided to have another go at getting into linux. I failed a couple of years back after giving up on getting my network card working w/ Red Hat 7.1. I even had 2 linux gurus come in and try and get it working with no success. I am a student placement working as an OSS Engineer at BTexact in Ipswich, Suffolk. I've always been a big programmer/hacker/code monkey and wisked away many an hour making some useless application or another. I'm getting fed up with doing windows programming and wanting to try something different... And so my long journey towards a new faith, "linux", begins. Under the true gods... a Penguin and a Goat. So, to start off. What distros are used by most of you, since I don't wanna start using a distro I can't get help for. Plus, I don't know which Distro would be best suited for a homeuser/developer/gamer. The only two distros I've really had a look at are Debian and Red Hat. One, because a mate of mine used it, and the other simply because I hear the name Red Hat all the time (Never knew if thats a good thing or a bad thing...) Anywayz, I'll leave you to digest, Ben aka DragonWolf

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I thought adding extra functionality to my mail system would be easy
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

I have a small home network of just two machines. Machine1 runs Debian Testing with Exim and Procmail. Machine2 is running Mandrake 9 with Postfix. I have just spent about two half-days trying to set things up so that I can send mail from one machine to another. After having spent hours searching for information on both my own machine and on the Internet I have to admit defeat. When I try to send mail from a user on either machine to a user on the other I get the following message: 'Host lookup did not complete' /etc/hosts.conf on both machines: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hosts on machine1: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 machine1.mynetwork machine1 192.168.1.2 machine2.mynetwork machine2 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts Surely it can't be this difficult? I should add that a lot of the information I have read might just as well have been written in Swahili for all the sense it made. After a very, very, very frustrating 24 hours I can appreciate why some people would give up on Linux and go back to Windows. Am I missing an important bit of software? Barry Samuels Professional Defeatist

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Re: [Alug] Woody
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Adam Bower wrote: >I am usually >on most evenings from about 8ish but if i don't reply immediatly don't think I >won't see anything written there. Oops, do you mean you've been reading all those terrible things I've been saying about you behind your back then? ;-) Jen.

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Threats to free software
by Chris Lale 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

I just wondered how many people were aware of two recent threats to free software. 1. W3C "royalty freee" patent policy proposals. -------------------------------------------- The proposed policy permits W3C members to commit their patent claims "royalty-free" for use by implementers of the standard, but with "field of use" restrictions that would be incompatible with section 7 of the GNU General Public License. Such "field of use" restrictions, in other words, would prevent implementation of W3C standards as Free Software. Details at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html. Comments to W3C must reach <www-patentpolicy-comment(a)w3.org> by Tuesday 31 December 2002. 2. EU plans to legalise software patents in Europe. ------------------------------------------------ The proposal was drafted by the Business Software Alliance, a US-based group dominated by Microsoft, in cooperation with the European Commission. AFAIK it is still under discussion by the European Comission. It seems to pose a threat to free software and the Internet. Details and petition at http://petition.eurolinux.org/index.html If you wish to email any MEP(s) (there are 8 for the Eastern Region), you can find their email addresses at http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm This all seems very worrying. Does anyone have any more up-to-date knowledge of these issues? Cheers, Chris. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ___ Chris Lale <ctlale(a)coolscience.co.uk> | | / \ | | | <_/ My PC runs Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (http://www.debian.org). | | \ Robust, secure and free operating system + applications. | | `- | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- ___ Chris Lale <ctlale(a)netscape.net> / \ | <_/ My PC runs Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. \ Robust, secure and free operating system + applications. \ Available at http://www.debian.org

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