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Downloading Mac Stuff in Linux?
by webgiant＠juno.com 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I'd like to be downloading some legacy Mac software (pre-OS 8.6) for my brother-in-law's older PowerMac. The problem is that the applications are only available through bittorrent (the author doesn't have much bandwidth), and there are no pre-OS 8.6 BitTorrent clients to download it on his PowerMac or my equally old PowerMac (OS 8.1). Every time I've copied a Mac file onto a PC floppy, there's extra files which aren't mentioned in the Mac directory listing. If I just get the torrent file and start downloading, will the torrent file create the extra files, or will the resulting file be unreadable by Macs? ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today!

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LARGE scale email
by Phoenician 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Just out of curiosity, what would people recommend for large scale email? (what distro and application) I'm not wanting to start a flame war, just get opinions from people in that have had more experience than I have in large scale email. That said, here are the factors for consideration: 1) I am migrating email from a Win32 environment to a *nix based environment. :) I am working with people that I have to remind that Linux is not a singular all-encompassing distro (ie: that Linux does means Linux but rather SuSe, Redhat, Mandrake etc..) 2) It must be ultra-secure. 3) Large scale means over 1,500 mail boxes and approx 350 to 400 domains. Thanks, Michienne.

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RE: LARGE scale email
by Garrett Goebel 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Phoenician wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, what would people recommend for large > scale email? (what distro and application) 1,500 mailboxes, 350-400 domains. Okay, but can you be more specific on "large scale"? How many emails sent/received per day? How many MB? How much storage capacity per mailbox? What distro's are you familiar with? What Mail Transfer Agents (MTA's) are you familiar with? Postfix? qmail? Sendmail? What Win32 MTA are you transferring from? Exchange? Do you have calendaring concerns which need to be addressed? Mailing lists? What DNS servers are you familiar with? Bind? djbdns? What do you currently use to filter spam? There are a couple people on the list with significant experience managing large scale email concerns. I'm not one of them ;) But that doesn't stop most people from venturing their opinion... (at least I've qualified mine). I'd say use look for the "hardened" version of whatever distributions you are most familiar with. Failing that, take a gander at http://www.bastille-linux.org/. Read the hardening documentation twice. When you decide to stray from the documentation, slap yourself with a clue-by-four. Then subscribe to a mailing list or visit a forum specifically targeted for your hardened distro, read their faq, and ask for advice there. On MTA's PostFix and qmail are both have a reputation for security. PostFix has a more active community. qmail is stuck in a minix like situation, where lots of people like and use it, but the author is so busy grinding his own personal copyright/licensing vendetta, that it's difficult for the community to support the code. Mailman seems to be the best supported mailing list manager... Evolution can handle calendaring. If I read right, it doesn't require a dedicated server like Exchange does. SuSE was working on an Exchange replacement as well. Perhaps someone else will have suggestions? djbdns is a nice small secure dns server. Same licensing issue as qmail. Other people may have other suggestions... Hopefully, someone will chime in with a list of spam filtering techniques. Automatic whitelisting of email recipients combined with baysian filters seems to go a long way toward cutting out spam. I'll leave suggestions of actual applications to others. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com

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New USB standard threatens Linux
by Jonathan Hutchins 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Cringeley says that the new Windows standard for USB devices specificly excludes Linux: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html

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Re: Help!!! my box has had a stroke
by kulua＠linux2themax.com 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> wrote .. > Fortunately it still works for e-mail, but I have a fair amount of > critical files, and I can't use Konquerer to shuffle them off to disk. > > Shy of kissing everything goodbye and re-installing -- is there anyone > who could help me either re-install KDE or extract the files to a CD or > two, so I can continue? It would be easier if I could bring things in; > my house is crammed and I can barely navigate as it is. > > FYI system here is SuSE 7.2 and I have the CD's. I'm wondering if I > could configure the ethernet card and simply transfer files that way, > burn CD's and then go on from there??? It took a power bump just one > too many times and fsck just ate up the inodes. > > Gary Hildebrand > St. Joseph if you have a spare drive arounnd that has a fair ammount of capacity you could just tar -cpsvj /mnt/hda[X] > /mnt/hdb[X]/badpart.tbz in to a realy big tbz file probably from some bootable livecd or suse disks that would require mounting im assuming /dev/hda1[or where your linux partitonis] to either another disk or partitio that has plenty of space. you can also be more specific if you know exactly what you want/neeed from it. ie /etc /var/www /home /.... and just tbz those up real quick. I have had excelent luck with just archiving the whole thing though. I evin back up my windows boxes that way. i have quite a fiew 4 gig tbz's around for that reason. also Mc has some good features for that as well if I recall archiving is a newer addition to it.

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New to the but not linux
by docv 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

I have been using linux for about 7 years now, but just join the mail list about a month ago and been lurking and watching since. The Mailman page for the list does describe what the list is actually for but I have seen a few questions along with the comments. I've got a problem with a data drive (ext2 formatted as /home) that I need some direction on where to go to find help with. Specifically if there's any way to recover from a "bad super block" when attempting to mount the drive? I've Goggled for an answer, but without success. Any suggestions? -- Steve Vaitl

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RE: LARGE scale email
by Phoenician 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

<snip>crash 3m Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:26 PM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: LARGE scale email better start reading, there are many options that may or may not make your mail server secure...if you want 'ultra secure' unplug it and lock it in a bank vault. Any service that is connected to the internet is potentially vulnerable. As far as which email server to use...everyone usually has a personal favorite. <snip> I understand that everyone has a personal preference; I also understand that if I want a completely secure system that it should not be put on-line. That is why I specifically asked for peoples opinions. I was _hoping_ for insightful replies of people who have more experience than I have in this area. To this date, I have only use RH 7.2 and Sendmail. I am neither attached to RH or Sendmail and seeing as how the company that I work, which also happens to be a M$ solutions partner, I wanted to get it right the first time. The implementation time period is relatively short. So, that being said, is there anyone out that would care to share their experiences? - M

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Help!!! my box has had a stroke
by Gary Hildebrand 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

Fortunately it still works for e-mail, but I have a fair amount of critical files, and I can't use Konquerer to shuffle them off to disk. Shy of kissing everything goodbye and re-installing -- is there anyone who could help me either re-install KDE or extract the files to a CD or two, so I can continue? It would be easier if I could bring things in; my house is crammed and I can barely navigate as it is. FYI system here is SuSE 7.2 and I have the CD's. I'm wondering if I could configure the ethernet card and simply transfer files that way, burn CD's and then go on from there??? It took a power bump just one too many times and fsck just ate up the inodes. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph

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two Email domains
by Michael Pratt 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

I am running Postfix from Mandrake 10 and am trying to run two domains from my place of employment. for some reason they are getting crossed because if I send an email to name(a)mydomain1.com it somehow gets renamed to name(a)mydomain2.com. Is there a way through virtual hosts to isolate these domains? name(a)mydomain1.com gets forwarded to an aol account which is set up through procmail But name(a)mydomain2.com seems to be forwarding also in addition to going to the proper address. I am pulling my hear out on this one. Can someone shed some lite on this? Mike -- Michael Pratt Nova Blue Inc. http://www.nbmap.com -- Michael Pratt Nova Blue Inc. http://www.nbmap.com

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Microsoft Releases Image Handling Patch
by Jonathan Hutchins 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

According to Computerworld, "Microsoft has released a "critical" patch to fix a security flaw affecting how Windows, Office and developer tools software programs process images in the JPEG image format." That sounds suspiciously like the imagelib vulnerabilities that were patched last week. You don't suppose Microsof would stoop to using free Open Source code internally in Windows, do you?

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