[Wylug-help] BT internet PPP problems
Dr.RajivSrinivasa
Dr.RajivSrinivasa
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:57:18 +0100
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On Sunday 26 Aug 2001 11:37 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a PPP connection working with BT Internet's anytime
> package.
I use Wvdial and it works brilliantly. (See attached file: wvdial.conf -
which resides in your /etc folder once installed)
>
> dials, you hear the modem handshaking, it goes silent as if everything's
> worked, then about 1 second later, disconnects.
Which kernel are you using? If 2.4.x, you really need pppd version>2.4. I
had the same problem as you till I upgraded pppd to 2.4.1
Hope this helps
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From gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk Tue Aug 28 10:06:43 2001
From: gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk (Gary Stainburn)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:06:43 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
In-Reply-To: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F2E8@ex-eng-corp>
References: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F2E8@ex-eng-corp>
Message-ID: <01082810064300.21758@gary.ringways.co.uk>
Hi,
What information is it that you want? Is it setting up the mail delivery,
setting up the users, setting up the DNS services, or none of the above?
Your system should have sendmail installed by default. However, I would
recomend removing sendmail and replace it with exim; for RH7.1 exim is on the
Powertools CD. Exim creates a synlink that emulates sendmail for those
things that need it (such as CGI mailto forms), but has a much nicer config
file and a cleaner security history (I think). Either of these program can
be used to deliver mail. (This is the 'SMTP' or outgoing mail section in mail
clients).
Your system should also have a popd installed. This is the program takes
care of requests from users to collect their mail. (This is the 'POP' or
incoming mail section in mail clients). Popd is controlled by (x)inetd, and
so uses TCPwrappers so if you want, you can restrict your POP services to
your internal network for added security.
So that your internal machines and machines on the internet know how and
where to send/receive email you need a DNS setting up. Usually, your ISP
will do this for you for the internet side. On an internal you can get round
this by configuring mail clients using the IP address of your mail server
rather than it's machine name.
To create user accounts, use something like linuxconf, which lets you specify
all sorts of settings for each user as you create them, such as whether they
have a normal account, or just a mail account.
I don't think that there is a single HOWTO to cover all aspects of this, but
there are individual ones for exim, DNS etc.,
Hope this helps,
Gary
On Saturday 25 August 2001 2:20 am, Sterling Louie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there could point me to a page or book or
> something on how to setup a mail server on Redhat 6.0/7.0. Redhat.com
> doesn't help and some of the other Linux sites I went to gave me stupid
> links that don't give me any information related to setting up a mail
> server. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. It is very
> frustrating not being able to find information on this.
>
> SL
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From abuse at cabal.org.uk Tue Aug 28 10:13:17 2001
From: abuse at cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:13:17 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
In-Reply-To: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F2E8@ex-eng-corp>; from Sterling.Louie@efi.com on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:20:26PM -0700
References: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F2E8@ex-eng-corp>
Message-ID: <20010828101317.A8803@cabal.org.uk>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:20:26PM -0700, Sterling Louie wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone out there could point me to a page or book or
> something on how to setup a mail server on Redhat 6.0/7.0. [...]
Define "mail server".
Do you mean, just a SMTP receiver like Exim, or a complete "email solution"
similar to that provided by Exchange?
For most uses, installing Exim (for SMTP) and qpopper (for POP3) on a Linux
box, then giving shell accounts to users who want mail accounts will work
just fine. If you don't want people to have a shell account, make their
shell /bin/false.
There shouuld be RPMs of both Exim and qpopper - at least, I'm using the
prepackaged Debian versions without incident.
From david at parguild.co.uk Tue Aug 28 10:31:04 2001
From: david at parguild.co.uk (David Pashley)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:31:04 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Sawfish and Gnome
In-Reply-To: <20010823110831.A19090@tiger.gbdirect.co.uk>
References: <20010823103243.B17042@tiger.gbdirect.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108231052320.788-100000@finity.leeds.ac.uk> <20010823110831.A19090@tiger.gbdirect.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20010828103104.A6874@parguild.co.uk>
davef@gbdirect.co.uk said, and I quote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:58:51AM +0100, Jason Lander wrote:
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > I'm currently running a fairly-functional copy of Swordfish with Ximian
> > Gnome.
> >
> > I think you'll be able to fire up the sawfish config tools
> >
> > sawfish-ui
> > sawfish-themer
> >
> > from the command line.
> >
> > There are too many bits of lisp around for me to be able to work out which
> > ones hold the mouse mapping in a hurry.
>
> I must be getting very bad at making myself clear. I thought I had stated
> pretty plainly that I had already tried and failed to run sawfish-ui et al from
> the command line, i.e. that is why I was assuming that I had little choice, but
> to edit the lisp.
>
> Perhaps you know a magic way of envoking these apps?
>
> I get this from sawfish-ui:
> error--> (file-error "No such file or directory" "gui/gtk")
>
This could be one of a few problems. Make sure you have rep-gtk
installed, which you probably do have. The next thing to check is which
directory rep is looking for libraries. Run
strace -efile sawfish-ui 2>&1 | grep '/usr/lib/rep/'
This should be one of (from my debian sid machine)
0.14
i386-pc-linux-gnu
i686-pc-linux-gnu
Under that directory make sure there is a gui/gtk/gtk.so (and friends).
If there is not, symlink the gui/gtk directory from the other directory
above. This should fix the problem.
> I get this from sawfish-themer:
> bash: sawfish-themer: command not found
I don't have this installed either.
>
> Perhaps you also know a magic way around xminian's broken installer?
>
> Dave
Sorry if you have already managed to fix this before you receive this
message. My ISDN line is currently broken and don't know when this mail
will be sent.
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From gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk Wed Aug 29 09:15:19 2001
From: gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk (Gary Stainburn)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:15:19 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
In-Reply-To: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30A@ex-eng-corp>
References: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30A@ex-eng-corp>
Message-ID: <01082909151900.25109@gary.ringways.co.uk>
Hi Sterling,
couple of points.
1) call me Gary, not Mr. Stainburn. I'm only called Mr.Stainburn when I'm in
trouble.
2) stay on the list. If you reply only to me, you lose all the expertise of
the other subscribers.
Anyways, to remove sendmail, simply run the command
rpm -e sendmail --nodeps
The --nodeps is needed because sendmail provides 'smtpdaemon' which is
required by other rpms on your system. This is okay, because when you
install exim, it also provides smtpdaemon.
Why do you want to remove the popd server from your system?
Gary
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 2:28 am, you wrote:
> Hi Mr Stainburn,
>
> Thank you for replying to my posting. I didn't realize so much was
> involved in making a mail server. I guess I have a question on how to
> remove sendmail and popd safely. I'll take your advice on installing exim
> and qpopper on the server. Thanks for any help you can give me. Your time
> and advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> SL
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From Sterling.Louie at efi.com Wed Aug 29 19:27:02 2001
From: Sterling.Louie at efi.com (Sterling Louie)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:27:02 -0700
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
Message-ID: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30D@ex-eng-corp>
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Hi Gary,
Sorry, it's a pecking order thing. I have to show my respect. You guys are
the masters, I'm the apprentice. Anyway, thanks for your help. The reason
I thought I need to remove popd is because Mr. Corlett suggested using
qpopper as my POP3 server. Since you said I should remove sendmail and
install exim to replace it, I thought the same was needed for the popd
daemon/program. Am I confused and missing something here? Thanks again for
everyone's help and suggestions.
SL
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:15 AM
To: Sterling Louie
Cc: WYLUG Help
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
Hi Sterling,
couple of points.
1) call me Gary, not Mr. Stainburn. I'm only called Mr.Stainburn when I'm
in
trouble.
2) stay on the list. If you reply only to me, you lose all the expertise of
the other subscribers.
Anyways, to remove sendmail, simply run the command
rpm -e sendmail --nodeps
The --nodeps is needed because sendmail provides 'smtpdaemon' which is
required by other rpms on your system. This is okay, because when you
install exim, it also provides smtpdaemon.
Why do you want to remove the popd server from your system?
Gary
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Hi Gary,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Sorry, it's a pecking order thing. I have to =
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apprentice. Anyway, thanks for your help. The reason I =
thought I need to remove popd is because Mr. Corlett suggested using =
qpopper as my POP3 server. Since you said I should remove =
sendmail and install exim to replace it, I thought the same was needed =
for the popd daemon/program. Am I confused and missing something =
here? Thanks again for everyone's help and =
suggestions.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>SL</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>From: Gary Stainburn [<A =
HREF=3D"mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk">mailto:gary.stainburn@ring=
ways.co.uk</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:15 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>To: Sterling Louie</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Cc: WYLUG Help</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server =
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Hi Sterling,</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>couple of points.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>1) call me Gary, not Mr. Stainburn. I'm only =
called Mr.Stainburn when I'm in </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>trouble.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>2) stay on the list. If you reply only to me, you =
lose all the expertise of </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>the other subscribers.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Anyways, to remove sendmail, simply run the =
command</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>rpm -e sendmail --nodeps</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>The --nodeps is needed because sendmail provides =
'smtpdaemon' which is </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>required by other rpms on your system. This is =
okay, because when you </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>install exim, it also provides smtpdaemon.</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Why do you want to remove the popd server from your =
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From gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk Thu Aug 30 09:39:28 2001
From: gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk (Gary Stainburn)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:39:28 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
In-Reply-To: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30D@ex-eng-corp>
References: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30D@ex-eng-corp>
Message-ID: <01083009392800.26402@gary.ringways.co.uk>
Hi Sterling,
If you are going to replace popd with qpopper then you probably will have to
remove the default popd first, but I don't know how you would do that. Have
you tried just installing qpopper and seeing what happens? No doubt there
are some good instructions for this on the qpopper web site. You're going
outside my experience here as I've not done that.
Gary
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 7:27 pm, Sterling Louie wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Sorry, it's a pecking order thing. I have to show my respect. You guys
> are the masters, I'm the apprentice. Anyway, thanks for your help. The
> reason I thought I need to remove popd is because Mr. Corlett suggested
> using qpopper as my POP3 server. Since you said I should remove sendmail
> and install exim to replace it, I thought the same was needed for the popd
> daemon/program. Am I confused and missing something here? Thanks again
> for everyone's help and suggestions.
>
> SL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:15 AM
> To: Sterling Louie
> Cc: WYLUG Help
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
>
>
> Hi Sterling,
>
> couple of points.
>
> 1) call me Gary, not Mr. Stainburn. I'm only called Mr.Stainburn when I'm
> in
> trouble.
> 2) stay on the list. If you reply only to me, you lose all the expertise of
> the other subscribers.
>
> Anyways, to remove sendmail, simply run the command
>
> rpm -e sendmail --nodeps
>
> The --nodeps is needed because sendmail provides 'smtpdaemon' which is
> required by other rpms on your system. This is okay, because when you
> install exim, it also provides smtpdaemon.
>
> Why do you want to remove the popd server from your system?
>
> Gary
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From linux at drivecomputing.co.uk Thu Aug 30 13:54:36 2001
From: linux at drivecomputing.co.uk (Andrew Johnson)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:54:36 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
In-Reply-To: <01083009392800.26402@gary.ringways.co.uk>
References: <D9F6B9DABA4CAE4B92850252C52383ABD3F30D@ex-eng-corp>
Message-ID: <3B8E459C.16443.F99EC5@localhost>
For information, the standard pop3 daemon on Redhat (ipop3d) is
installed as part of the imap rpm. All you should need to do is
uninstall the rpm (if you had already installed it).
-Andy-
On 30 Aug 2001, at 9:39, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi Sterling,
>
> If you are going to replace popd with qpopper then you probably will have to
> remove the default popd first, but I don't know how you would do that. Have
> you tried just installing qpopper and seeing what happens? No doubt there
> are some good instructions for this on the qpopper web site. You're going
> outside my experience here as I've not done that.
>
> Gary
>
> On Wednesday 29 August 2001 7:27 pm, Sterling Louie wrote:
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > Sorry, it's a pecking order thing. I have to show my respect. You guys
> > are the masters, I'm the apprentice. Anyway, thanks for your help. The
> > reason I thought I need to remove popd is because Mr. Corlett suggested
> > using qpopper as my POP3 server. Since you said I should remove sendmail
> > and install exim to replace it, I thought the same was needed for the popd
> > daemon/program. Am I confused and missing something here? Thanks again
> > for everyone's help and suggestions.
> >
> > SL
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:15 AM
> > To: Sterling Louie
> > Cc: WYLUG Help
> > Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Setting up a mail server on RedHat 6.0/7.0
> >
> >
> > Hi Sterling,
> >
> > couple of points.
> >
> > 1) call me Gary, not Mr. Stainburn. I'm only called Mr.Stainburn when I'm
> > in
> > trouble.
> > 2) stay on the list. If you reply only to me, you lose all the expertise of
> > the other subscribers.
> >
> > Anyways, to remove sendmail, simply run the command
> >
> > rpm -e sendmail --nodeps
> >
> > The --nodeps is needed because sendmail provides 'smtpdaemon' which is
> > required by other rpms on your system. This is okay, because when you
> > install exim, it also provides smtpdaemon.
> >
> > Why do you want to remove the popd server from your system?
> >
> > Gary
>
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From gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk Fri Aug 31 10:17:16 2001
From: gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk (Gary Stainburn)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:17:16 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
Message-ID: <01083110171602.27908@gary.ringways.co.uk>
Hi all,
How well does Linux connect to AOL? Has anyone tried it? I'm looking at
getting work to get a corporate AOL account so that I don't have to pay
anything at all to get on the internet. (My £10 per month no call charges
Telewest connection is crap).
Also, this weekend I intend to be on-line for quite a while while I have a go
at flying in controlled airspace (have a look at http://www.vatsim.net). As
there isn't a version of FS2K for Linux, I will have to go on-line using
Win98. Can anyone suggest any security steps that I can do to make myself
less wide-open.
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From linux at drivecomputing.co.uk Fri Aug 31 11:57:53 2001
From: linux at drivecomputing.co.uk (Andrew Johnson)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:57:53 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
In-Reply-To: <01083110171602.27908@gary.ringways.co.uk>
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You could always try the =A315/month no call charges BT-Internet.
99% of the time, my connection is ok. Requires a BT line though.
-Andy-
On 31 Aug 2001, at 10:17, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How well does Linux connect to AOL? Has anyone tried it? I'm looking a=
t
> getting work to get a corporate AOL account so that I don't have to pay
> anything at all to get on the internet. (My =A310 per month no call char=
ges
> Telewest connection is crap).
>
> Also, this weekend I intend to be on-line for quite a while while I have=
a go
> at flying in controlled airspace (have a look at http://www.vatsim.net).=
As
> there isn't a version of FS2K for Linux, I will have to go on-line using=
> Win98. Can anyone suggest any security steps that I can do to make myse=
lf
> less wide-open.
>
> --
> Gary Stainburn
>
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From Simon.Wood at pace.co.uk Fri Aug 31 14:53:15 2001
From: Simon.Wood at pace.co.uk (Simon Wood)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:53:15 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
Message-ID: <44632C76B97BD211AF6B00805FADCAB2087907FA@exchange.saltaire.pace.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [SMTP:linux@drivecomputing.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: WYLUG Help
> Cc: Gary Stainburn
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
>=20
> You could always try the > =A315/month no call charges BT-Internet.
> 99% of the time, my connection is ok. Requires a BT line though.
[Simon Wood] =20
Don't they have a 2 hour session limit???
Can be REALLY annoying for big downloads or online gaming.
From linux at drivecomputing.co.uk Fri Aug 31 15:05:26 2001
From: linux at drivecomputing.co.uk (Andrew Johnson)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:05:26 +0100
Subject: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
In-Reply-To: <44632C76B97BD211AF6B00805FADCAB2087907FA@exchange.saltaire.pace.co.uk>
Message-ID: <3B8FA7B6.4089.13A10CB@localhost>
Yes, the limit is 2 hours, and at times it can be annoying!
Downloads can usually be resumed though using ftp's reget
command.
There is however no perfect ISP, they all have problems so I guess
it's a matter of trying them and working out which one suits you
best.
-Andy-
On 31 Aug 2001, at 14:53, Simon Wood wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Johnson [SMTP:linux@drivecomputing.co.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:58 AM
> > To: WYLUG Help
> > Cc: Gary Stainburn
> > Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Linux->AOL and Win98 firewalling
> >
> > You could always try the > =A315/month no call charges BT-Internet.
> > 99% of the time, my connection is ok. Requires a BT line though.
> [Simon Wood]
> Don't they have a 2 hour session limit???
>
> Can be REALLY annoying for big downloads or online gaming.
>
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