[gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs
Hi guys, I'm new to gentoo, after getting a referral from a buddy of mine. I've got a year or so's experience with Linux in general, mostly coming from the RedHat side, but after hearing about the philosophy behind gentoo, I decided to check it out. So far, I'm pretty impressed. The install was mostly painless and the documentation for the installation was very well written. Having said that, I've got a couple of basic questions about portage, one of which I outline below: I'm setting up a web/dns/mail server as my first try at gentoo, and everything was going along pretty well as I installed bind and apache and a few other basic packages with 'emerge -k package_name', until I decided to try to install mod_php. Now, granted I didn't verify that this was exactly what I wanted, but I think it is. I'm just looking for the php plug-in to Apache. But anyway, I didn't do the --pretend switch on emerge to see what kind of dependencies it'd pick up and was rather surprised when it started pulling all of the xfree86 libraries and a few other things. Needless to say, as this is a server, I'd rather not even have X, or anything that's only needed by X, installed. Waste of space, etc. Is there any way I can set a USE flag in make.conf that's like a don't-install-any-X-stuff flag? The USE flags as I understand them are kind of the opposite of that. They say, 'install this capability for every package you build that can', but I want to avoid installing any packages that either require X or are X-related. Hope that made enough sense to answer. Thanks, John Lawler p.s. Oh also, might I be okay if I force emerge to remove X, even though mod_php requires it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sasl fails to start
I'm setting up a small email server which will be used to host multiple domains and for which I want to use virtual email users, exactly like sendmail's feature: virtusertable. I'm coming from another installation where I was just using Sendmail coupled with a small pop3 server and all the users had actual accounts on the machine. Since most of my mail users don't even need login capability, and since that compromises security anyway, I'm looking at an option where the email users are all not able to login. So I chose to use cyrus imap w/ sasl and sendmail (and probably Squirrelmail) to accomplish this. Most of it seems to be working as I want it to w/ one exception so far. Virtual users. I'm not even talking about virtual domains yet, although I'll probably set that up so that I'm using that feature of cyrus and just having the users login w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] But what I want to do is use something just like sendmail's virtusertable (which was working fine for me on my old server) but also deliver all the local mail to cyrus. Right now, I'm accomplishing the latter part with these additions to sendmail.mc: define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2') MAILER(`cyrusv2') as suggested in the cyrus documentation. And this has the effect of delivering all the mail to cyrus, but it bypasses sendmail's virtusertable processing, even though when I test that with 'sendmail -bt' the virtusertable works fine. So I've got virtusertables setup correctly, I just need to discover some way to have sendmail first run incoming mail through the virtusertable and *then* deliver it to cyrus for further processing. Sorry about the long-winded nature of the post thus far, but my ultimate question is, does this make sense and does anyone have a pointer on where I could look to accomplish what I described in the last paragraph. Thanks, John Lawler p.s. I saw the HOWTO on gentoo's site about doing a similar setup w/ postfix and MySQL and some other packages, but I'd prefer to go this route for now. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] virtusers w/ cyrus-imap and sendmail
I'm setting up a small email server which will be used to host multiple domains and for which I want to use virtual email users, exactly like sendmail's feature: virtusertable. I'm coming from another installation where I was just using Sendmail coupled with a small pop3 server and all the users had actual accounts on the machine. Since most of my mail users don't even need login capability, and since that compromises security anyway, I'm looking at an option where the email users are all not able to login. So I chose to use cyrus imap w/ sasl and sendmail (and probably Squirrelmail) to accomplish this. Most of it seems to be working as I want it to w/ one exception so far. Virtual users. I'm not even talking about virtual domains yet, although I'll probably set that up so that I'm using that feature of cyrus and just having the users login w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] But what I want to do is use something just like sendmail's virtusertable (which was working fine for me on my old server) but also deliver all the local mail to cyrus. Right now, I'm accomplishing the latter part with these additions to sendmail.mc: define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2') MAILER(`cyrusv2') as suggested in the cyrus documentation. And this has the effect of delivering all the mail to cyrus, but it bypasses sendmail's virtusertable processing, even though when I test that with 'sendmail -bt' the virtusertable works fine. So I've got virtusertables setup correctly, I just need to discover some way to have sendmail first run incoming mail through the virtusertable and *then* deliver it to cyrus for further processing. Sorry about the long-winded nature of the post thus far, but my ultimate question is, does this make sense and does anyone have a pointer on where I could look to accomplish what I described in the last paragraph. Thanks, John Lawler p.s. I saw the HOWTO on gentoo's site about doing a similar setup w/ postfix and MySQL and some other packages, but I'd prefer to go this route for now. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] vmailmgr, qmail and courier-imap -- trouble w/ imap login
I'm trying to get a qmail/vmailmgr/courier-imap setup going and am having a hell of a time doing it. All of the packages emerge fine, of course, but I'm stuck after having defined a couple of test virtual users in vmailmgr and also indicating to courier-imap to use the authvmailmgr module for authentication. The authentications keep failing, but I'm not even sure what's going on b/c I'm not getting much log output from either courier-imap or, more importantly, vmailmgr. One problem that I ran into on install (and I'm not sure I've fully fixed) is at the end of the emerge of vmailmgr, there's a message that says: To start vmailmgrd you need to link /var/lib/supervise/vmailmgrd to /service This seemed strange, since I wasn't even aware of a /service directory, but I checked, and it was there, so I made a soft-link from /service/vmailmgrd - /var/lib/supervise/vmailmgrd, which is, I assume, what that message means. But there's still no /etc/init.d/ script for vmailmgr and the only way I can try to start it is from a 'run' script that's in /var/lib/supervise/vmailmgrd. These starts a daemon, but it seems to be non-responsive to my queries and I can't even tell if the module is correctly receiving the queries from courier-imap b/c I can't get logging on vmailmgr to happen either. I tried to very closely follow this HOWTO: http://www.linux.com/howtos/Qmail-VMailMgr-Courier-imap-HOWTO/x380.shtml and I've looked closely at FAQs for vmailmgr and courier-imap to no avail. Running out of alternatives to try here, does anyone have a similar configuration such that they could point me in the right direction? Thanks, John Lawler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo
I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that character wraps to the next line and makes everything look messed up. One fix I tried was to make the command window of Cygwin go to 81 characters (instead of 80), and this seemed to solve my problem for awhile, but now it's back. I don't really notice this problem in any other applications. Furthermore, on a couple of Red Hat machines I have around, I never have had this problem through Cygwin, looking at the top application output. Anyone have a similar experience? Any pointers? My TERM env var is set to cygwin. Thanks, jl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo
Well, one difference is that I'm not using a window manager. I'm just launching the basic command window that gives you a Cygwin / UNIX environment under what appears to be just a Windows command prompt, really. That's where my problem is occuring. I'm running Windows XP Pro, too, but I doubt that makes any difference. Is anyone else using Cygwin as I'm describing to directly log into a terminal session on a Gentoo box? Thanks for the reply, Eric. jl Eric Livingston wrote: I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that character wraps to the next line and makes everything look messed up. Well, if it's any help, I do *not* seem to have the problem, so it may not be a universal thing. Just to be sure I'm doing the same thing: 1. Open an xterm under cygwin (I'm using Windowmaker, if it makes a difference) 2. ssh to my gentoo box (~x86 specified, fully updated), using the ssh2 protocol (though that shouldn't matter) 3. run top The screen is correctly painted. Moreover, I can resize the screen, in particular making it too narrow to hold the top output fully, and everything still paints ok. Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
