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Exim/MX/Mail forwarding

by Michael Zarozinski

Hi, We have 2 dedicated servers, I'm hoping someone can help save me some time and keep me from messing up the servers! Our 2 servers are: Server "A": 111.111.111.111 Server "B": 222.222.222.222 (not the real IPs obviously!) I've configured Exim to allow us to send email to a domain literal (so mail sent to michaelz(a)[222.222.222.222] works) What we'd like to do is have ALL email sent to server "A" go to server "B"... I know this can be done with MX files, but I'm not sure about setting up "domain zones" or if it's easier to just change some settings in Exim. Thank you! Michael Z

Dec. 27, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by John Stoffel

Mike> At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router Mike> from a single board computer. I was poking around the net and Mike> found the OpenWrt project. I'm curious if anyone has any Mike> experience with OpenWrt? I used to run LEAF/bering from the Linux Router project, but it seemed to die after a while and I didn't care for using an old PC with CDROM/floppy as my firewall anymore. I ended up moving to m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch) on a WRAP board with three ethernet ports, http://www.pcengines.ch and I've been very happy. Don't bother getting a wireless card, just get a seperate Linksys WRT54G (or something like that) box and hang it off it's own network port. This setup works really nicely, and has really low power/noise, which is what I was after. m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD I admit, but that didn't stop me... :] John

Dec. 27, 2005

Re: [Wlug] USB drive & logical volumes

by Mike Leo

The reason we use logical volumes is to prevent any one volume from filling up / (which can also be accomplished with physical volumes, I know), but also to allow us to simply resize them somewhat on the fly. for instance, if /home becomes full, we can add additionally harddrives (internal or SAN) and resize the /home logical volume with the new space. This can be done without taking /home offline, although i've never done that. So I'm not sure how much of a benefit a logical volume would be on a fixed sized external drive. At least not in the way we use it. --- Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> wrote: > Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. > My intended use > is a combination of backup and transporting personal > files to/from > work (I want to remove them from my work hard > drive). Both home and > work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon. > > I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder > ext3) when I started > reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty > neat, but I wonder > if they are useful for a portable drive. In > particular, I can see > that some/all of the definitions for the group and > volume are in > /dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the > setup on both > machines. > > > Any recommendations or experience? Would I be > better off with > physical partitions for this use? > > TIA, > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Dec. 26, 2005

USB drive & logical volumes

by Bill Mills-Curran

Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. My intended use is a combination of backup and transporting personal files to/from work (I want to remove them from my work hard drive). Both home and work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon. I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder ext3) when I started reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty neat, but I wonder if they are useful for a portable drive. In particular, I can see that some/all of the definitions for the group and volume are in /dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the setup on both machines. Any recommendations or experience? Would I be better off with physical partitions for this use? TIA, Bill

Dec. 26, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Mike

I have been using Linux for 4-5 years no so I am definatly up for the task. I haven't had much experience with setting up a Linux router/firewall, but I think my other experience will be enough. Part of doing this project is to learn more using Linux as a router. I heard about the crippled WRT54G from slashdot and few other places. According to OpenWrt's wiki version 3 of the WRT54GS has 8MB of flash and 32MBs ram. However version 4 they cut it in half. Anyway thanks for the info. Cheers, Mike <quote who="Karl Hiramoto"> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of > Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. > I do OLSR mesh networks and hot spots. Beware WRT54G with hardware > version 5 does not work. as Cisco cripled the box with only 4M of > ram. See info on www.openwrt.org for hardware compatibility. > > It's definitely not a newbie distro though, you need to know linux and > networking. > > Some people try openwrt and are upset because it requires you to know > something about Linux and networking. There are several other > distros out there that are more easy, but less configurable and less > hackable. :-) > > Enjoy, > > - -- > > - -- > Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> > Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto jabber.org=karl_hiramoto > > > > Mike wrote: > >>At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a >>single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt >>project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? >> >>Happy Holidays, >>Mike >> >>OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDrCBdi5PWRMgthfERAmEqAJ9PRi6apq32NNX2720sheDVRnXzIgCcDOFm > /hSLn2WAqswfmZwedo7pWnk= > =WfWm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Emacs would be a far better OS if it shipped with a halfway-decent text editor. --Anonymous

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Jeff Kinz

> Mike wrote: > >At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a > >single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt > >project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:05:49PM +0100, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of > Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. Bad news - Good News: FYI - LINKSYS Model Changes: The Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS lines have moved from Linux to VXworks to reduce the cost of producing the hardware. (VXworks requires less memory, reduces the size of the flash needed for the device, which now doesn't have enough room for Linux.) Fortunately, Linksys had added a new model specifically for Linux hackers, called the "WRT54GL", (presumably the "L" is for "Linux"), which will have a street price of $50-$70, slightly higher than the VXworks models. If you want to hack on one of these boxes, make sure that you get the correct model. Versions 1 thru 4 of the WRT54G and WRT54GS were Linux based but all versions from 5 and up will be VXworks based. If you can't get a v4 or earlier model of the original line, then make sure you get a WRT54GL or be prepared to replace the internal flash component with a larger piece. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006101.html -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Karl Hiramoto

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. I do OLSR mesh networks and hot spots. Beware WRT54G with hardware version 5 does not work. as Cisco cripled the box with only 4M of ram. See info on www.openwrt.org for hardware compatibility. It's definitely not a newbie distro though, you need to know linux and networking. Some people try openwrt and are upset because it requires you to know something about Linux and networking. There are several other distros out there that are more easy, but less configurable and less hackable. :-) Enjoy, - -- - -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto jabber.org=karl_hiramoto Mike wrote: >At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a >single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt >project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? > >Happy Holidays, >Mike > >OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDrCBdi5PWRMgthfERAmEqAJ9PRi6apq32NNX2720sheDVRnXzIgCcDOFm /hSLn2WAqswfmZwedo7pWnk= =WfWm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 23, 2005

OpenWrt

by Mike

At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? Happy Holidays, Mike OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Somewhat Off-topic - vpsland.com

by Webmaster

Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Post to the list a review if you try it. I personally am looking for a hosting > solution for under $100/ month and the virtual servers seem to be the most > economical now. > > What i personally need is full root access, 15+ GB of disk, 100+ GB of xfer, > 256+M of RAM. I've been looking around for something for a while, but have not > made the leap yet. > > --- > Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/ > Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto GTalk=karl.hiramoto(a)gmail.com > ---- I use serverpronto.com for both of my dedicated servers - $30/month. They offer a few distros to choose from: Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSe, Gentoo, FreeBSD and OpenBSD Basic package includes: Athlon 2000 256 MB RAM 40GB Hard drive 200GB Traffic I've used them for about 2 years now and haven't had any issues with the servers or service. Rob Mahlert .

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Reliable Linux Laptop Vendor

by Brett Russ

On 12/22/05, Brett Russ <bruss(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On 12/18/05, Mims Research <mimsresearch(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > will be researching video capture and editing suites (open source or > > otherwise) suitable for a Linux environment, but for now I'll be happy > > For video editing/DVD creation, see the two feature articles in this months LJ: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/141 Oops, sorry about that. Should have checked the actual article links before sending this out. You need to be a subscriber to see the articles from the current month's issue. So, either: -wait a couple weeks until they open up those articles; or -check out Kino (there were other tools mentioned but this was the big app); or -all of the above BR

Dec. 22, 2005