[expert] Mandrake as a PDC, with Samba and OpenLDAP

2003-11-06 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I'll get right to it. Im looking for information about the stability, security and performance of using Mandrake as a Primary Domain controller, running Samba (would like to use 3.0) and OpenLDAP 2.1.22. I originally was going to use FreeBSD 4.9 as our platform of

[expert] Need some docs on administering Mandrake systems

2003-11-11 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. We are in the process of replacing all of our Red Hat servers with other systems. One system we are strongly contemplating is Mandrake. What im looking for is some good documents that show how to adminster Mandrake systems. For instance, any Mandrake specific tools, like urpmi.

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Williams
At 01:01 PM 11/12/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hey all, Sorry for the long post, but I'm confused here. I've been using squirrelmail for several months now, but I wanted to switch to a local mail client. Squirrelmail really is local because my postfix email server is behind the firewall along with my

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Williams
At 01:25 PM 11/12/2003 -0800, you wrote: I dont see anything in your headers that would warrant them being malicious or spam. The only real thing I can see is that when you logged in remotely, its showing the verizon connection that was initiated. Is this a bad thing? This is just saying

[expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Jason Williams
Evening everyone. I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically urpmi and msec. I was working with urpmi trying to learn its

[expert] What version for production:

2003-11-17 Thread Jason Williams
Just want to ask a really quick question. Im going to setup a PDC with Mandrake. It will have Samba 3 as OpenLDAP 2.1.22. What version of Mandrake is better suited for a production environment? 9.0? 9.1? or 9.2? Any recommendations and input is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jason Want to

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
/14/2003 -0600, you wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:27 pm, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: Is there a way to list the packages that are available to download? urpmq --list will give you a list of all available packages, without versions. urpmq

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
At 12:17 PM 11/18/2003 -0800, you wrote: urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 att but the src rpm does build on 9.1) Ok...grabbed urpmc. I currently dont have any samba or LDAP installed. However, in playing with urpmi, I see there are quite a few packages available

[expert] urpmi woes

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
Ok...not sure if this should go here, but so far, i've had no luck in trying to resolve my problems with urpmi. Just did a fresh install of 9.2 on one of our IBM servers. I used the easy urpmi site to setup my urpmi servers so I could install software accordingly. Also, I should mention that

Re: [expert] urpmi woes

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
At 12:40 AM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: For urpmq --fuzzy you need to supply a string parameter For example urpmq --fuzzy samba Doh! Whoops...makes sense now. :) That error with medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is a

Re: [expert] urpmi woes

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Williams
At 02:41 AM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: It is the tree on the mirror that is broken. We will have to wait until it is fixed. It is the file 'list' in the contrib folder that is out of date. The list includes the old kernel packages that were replaced. I do not know how urpmi uses the list file.

Re: [expert] urpmi woes

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Williams
At 06:20 PM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: urpmq will search all available media unless you force it to use a specific media with --media or restrict it to update media with --update It may be your 'main' source is not configured properly or maybe you are just being misled by the way urpmq will

Re: [expert] Re: urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Williams
At 09:36 PM 11/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: This might help you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ cat /etc/cron.weekly/update_mdk #!/bin/bash #Keeps the system updated urpmi.update -a --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ you might want to change that to just