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Sendmail setup
by dsmith＠ds-electronics.co.uk 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi everyone. I'm having real problems with my sendmail setup. I've just installed 7.2 Pro (although this problem exists on 6.4 as well) on a "new" machine that is going to become my 'network services' machine (DNS, FTP, SMTP, etc.). I have the following problems: o I have a dialup connection, so the obvious choice for sendmail setup is "host with temporarily(sic) network connection". However, this leaves my machine as an open SMTP relay. Since I'm online 10+ hours a day, with a (relatively) high-speed ISDN connection, this is obviously not acceptable. If I choose "host with permanent network connection", sending mail is very slow, as I have to wait for it to time out on DNS requests. How can this be fixed? o When I choose "host with permanent network connection", the virtusertable does not work. I use it to re-write my outgoing username, (dsmith@ to David.Smith@), so I really want this feature. I posted this problem a while ago, and was told it was a problem with 6.4, but had been fixed in 7.0/1 (can't remember which). It still seems to be a bug in 7.2. Surely it could have been fixed by now? o The most bizarre problem: I use a masqueraded connection to the net, so I use Sendmail to re-write my domain address from the local name (machinename.djsnet) to my mail forwarding domain (ds-electronics.co.uk). This was working perfectly until I built the new DNS server. Now, when I try to send a mail, Sendmail tries to connect to my ISP and send with a rubbish domain name containing "*LOCAL*". The interesting thing about this is that it only happens if I have a working DNS zone for my local network (djsnet). If I break my DNS setup, sendmail works fine. It appears that it was only working before because my DNS setup was broken. I enclose a bounced mail. In case you're wondering: holly.djsnet is the local machine name demon.co.uk is my ISP gazpacho.demon.co.uk the name of my masqueraded machine on the internet ds-electronics.co.uk is my intended From: address - it is a mail forwarding service. TIA for any help... >From MAILER-DAEMON(a)ds-electronics.co.uk Thu Jun 28 11:05:22 2001 Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> Received: from localhost (localhost) by holly.djsnet (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with internal id LAA17655; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:22 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:22 +0100 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)ds-electronics.co.uk> Message-Id: <200106281005.LAA17655(a)holly.djsnet> To: dsmith(a)holly.djsnet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="LAA17655.993722722/holly.djsnet" Subject: Returned mail: Data format error Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) Status: RO Content-Length: 1421 Lines: 48 This is a MIME-encapsulated message --LAA17655.993722722/holly.djsnet The original message was received at Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:21 +0100 from dsmith@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- dave.smith(a)st.com ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to post.mail.demon.net.: >>> MAIL From:<David.Smith(a)*LOCAL*.demon.co.uk> SIZE=70 <<< 501 <David.Smith(a)*LOCAL*.demon.co.uk>: domain missing or malformed 501 dave.smith(a)st.com... Data format error --LAA17655.993722722/holly.djsnet Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; holly.djsnet Arrival-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:21 +0100 Final-Recipient: RFC822; dave.smith(a)st.com Action: failed Status: 5.5.2 Remote-MTA: DNS; post.mail.demon.net Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 <David.Smith(a)*LOCAL*.demon.co.uk>: domain missing or malformed Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:22 +0100 --LAA17655.993722722/holly.djsnet Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <dsmith> Received: (from dsmith@localhost) by holly.djsnet (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id LAA17653 for dave.smith(a)st.com; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:21 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:05:21 +0100 From: dsmith(a)holly.djsnet To: dave.smith(a)st.com Subject: test Message-ID: <20010628110521.C703(a)holly.djsnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i

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RE: [SLE] named prob
by Roque, Jorge 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: /etc/named.conf:7: syntax error near 127.0.0.1 Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 42) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 42) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: master zone "dbla.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: master zone "0.6.11.172.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: listening on [172.11.6.88].53 (eth0) Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9876]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].53 Jun 29 17:18:09 suse named[9877]: Ready to answer queries. Jorge Roque Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika, AG Technology Facilities Management Miami Agency Tel. 305-810-3352 E-mail: jorge.roque(a)dbla.com Internet: http://www.dbla.com -----Original Message----- From: Togan Muftuoglu [mailto:toganm@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:13 PM To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] named prob * Roque, Jorge; <Jorge.Roque(a)dbla.com> on 29 Jun, 2001 wrote: > My named daemon is working and I know I properly configured my "named.conf" > file but my server is not responding to NSLOOKUP requests. I don't have any What does the logs say when you start the named ? -- Togan Muftuoglu -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Anti-aliasing in KDE: minor success
by Paul Abrahams 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

I've achieved a minor success in getting anti-aliasing to work with the TrueType fonts in my Windows partition. My setup is X4.1.0 and KDE 2.1.1/2 under SuSE 7.1. Here's what I did: 1. In my /etc/X11/XF86Config file, I added at the very beginning of the font list in the Files section: FontPath "/win_c/windows/fonts" 2. Under Linux I went to the Windows font directory and did ttmkfdir. 3. In the configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig I added a reference to the Windows font directory, like this: dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" dir "/win_c/windows/fonts" 4. Under the Style section in the KDE Control Center, Look& Feel, I turned on anti-aliasing. I didn't have to weed out the Windows font directory, copy fonts elsewhere, transform names to lowercase, or go through any similar gymnastics. Paul

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X dpi and default font size
by Paul Abrahams 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

The Font Deuglification HOWTO recommends raising the dpi setting in the xdm configuration to a higher value, e.g., in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 It suggests choosing something even higher if the hardware will support it. However, raising the dpi setting produces (on my machine, anyway, using KDE) unreasonably large type in several contexts: the kdm login, the numbers that show up for the windows in the KDE taskbar, and the numbers in the squares in kminesweeper :=). Is there a way to crank the typesize of those items down again while retaining the higher dpi setting? They don't seem to be affected by any of the font settings in the KDE control panel (and certainly the kdm login wouldn't be). Paul

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RE: [SLE] named prob
by Roque, Jorge 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Ok, I correct the line 7 error. But still I can resolve from my DNS Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: starting (/etc/named.conf). named 8.2.3-T9B Fri Jan 19 09:43:33 GMT 2001 ^Iroot@kneser:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bind8-8.2.3/bin/named Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 42) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 42) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: master zone "dbla.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: master zone "0.6.11.172.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: listening on [172.11.6.88].53 (eth0) Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12200]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].53 Jun 29 17:21:43 suse named[12201]: Ready to answer queries. Jorge Roque Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika, AG Technology Facilities Management Miami Agency Tel. 305-810-3352 E-mail: jorge.roque(a)dbla.com Internet: http://www.dbla.com

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testing
by Jack Malone 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Is the list down today or what, have not gottne any mail from it since last night. jack jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com

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Load Balancing between web servers...
by ESix 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Is there software available out there that will load balance between 3~5 web servers? Ie micro$oft's load balancing allows you to have say 5 computers and have them aliased to 1 ip address and requests are sent the quickest responding server? I would like to implement around 4 apache servers to replace an IIS web farm but I need this failover incase servers go down. Running beowulf clustering is not a viable solution either... TIA Eric

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RE: [SLE] named prob
by Roque, Jorge 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

I a testing a SuSE Linux server 7.1 as DNS. My Named deamon start without errors. When I try to NSLOOKUP I receive the following message: suse:~ # nslookup *** Can't find server name for address 172.11.6.88: Non-existent host/domain *** Default servers are not available suse:~ # I don’t have ipchains or iptables enable. What could be causing my DNS server no to respond to UPD 53? Thanks for you help Jorge Roque Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika, AG Technology Facilities Management Miami Agency Tel. 305-810-3352 E-mail: jorge.roque(a)dbla.com Internet: http://www.dbla.com

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Evolution and Suse7.2
by Tall0n 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Has anyone successfully gotten Evolution to work on Suse 7.2? Right out of the box, I installed Evolution through yast. No dependencies were indicated and everything seemed to work ok. However, when you run the command line "evolution", the application starts but complains about not being able to find "file:///home/list/evolution/local/Drafts"! Notice the third slash in file:///. The folders and files in question get created when evolution first starts, and the permissions are ok. I have searched high and low to find where file:/// is. Anyone? Tall0n -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net

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Reloading X resources
by Paul Abrahams 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

I'm running X4.1.0 and KDE 2.1.1. Is there a simple way to reload the X resources (after I've modified them) without logging out and logging in again? Paul

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