Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-13 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Much safer way and a little less typing ;-) cd /home.orig rsync -av . /home this, too, can be used for mirrors (and backups): cd /somedirectory/somesub rsync -av . backupserver:`pwd` jobst On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:35:09PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX

2008-02-13 Thread Nigel Allen
Bump On 12/02/2008 6:45 PM, Nigel Allen wrote: Hi We are acting as secondary MX for a few of our customers, one of who has about 20 valid email addresses (including aliases). I want to change the /etc/mail/access from a simple RELAY to something that will check for valid addresses for

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX

2008-02-13 Thread Craig Dibble
Quoting Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to change the /etc/mail/access from a simple RELAY to something that will check for valid addresses for that domain and reject any BS ones. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? sendmail 8-14-1 on FC6. I might be missing

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX

2008-02-13 Thread Nigel Allen
Thank you - that's extremely helpful. btw - it's a phrenologist. N/ On 14/02/2008 10:43 AM, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Might want to talk to your dermatologist? --Jeremy Nigel Allen wrote: Bump On 12/02/2008 6:45 PM, Nigel Allen wrote: Hi We are acting as secondary MX for a few of our

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX

2008-02-13 Thread Nigel Allen
On 14/02/2008 10:17 AM, Craig Dibble wrote: Quoting Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to change the /etc/mail/access from a simple RELAY to something that will check for valid addresses for that domain and reject any BS ones. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

2008-02-13 Thread jam
On Thursday 14 February 2008 08:51:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you downloading the desktop image? Why not install the server image?   I guess to explain what Adrian meant is that the server version of Ubuntu uses a text installer. You can still do this with the desktop ISO by

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-13 Thread Glen Turner
create /home on /hda3 Not quite. /dev/hda3 should contain user1/ user2/ user3/ which are the directories which are on /dev/hda1 as /home/user1 /home/user2 /home/user3 You then mount /dev/hda3 /home The UUID and volume label can be used as alternative ways to identify /dev/hda3. This is

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX

2008-02-13 Thread Craig Dibble
Quoting Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/02/2008 10:17 AM, Craig Dibble wrote: I might be missing something, but IIRC you can just list the actual [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the access file and filter for allowed users that way. Not rubbish at all - I'm afraid it's just not quite that

Re: [SLUG] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX - Solved

2008-02-13 Thread Nigel Allen
On 14/02/2008 11:21 AM, Craig Dibble wrote: Quoting Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/02/2008 10:17 AM, Craig Dibble wrote: I might be missing something, but IIRC you can just list the actual [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the access file and filter for allowed users that way. Not rubbish at all -

[SLUG] Thanks - Re: How do I relocate /home

2008-02-13 Thread bill
Thanks to all who provided info. As I received Michael's reply early Sunday AM and did not recieve the SLUG digests until much later, I went with his advice. I actually managed to get it right, and /home was relocated from /hda1 to /hda3, though the increase in storage space thus gained on

[SLUG] Too big a picture.

2008-02-13 Thread wbennett
I put the laptop in a docking station that's connected to a larger screen. The laptop has a desktop background: a large picture and it overflows the edges. This is deliberate: the bit that's on the laptop monitor is what I want. The larger screen shows the entire picture, unfortunately. When I