On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:25:17AM -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:
> Fred:
>
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> From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, August 06, 2000 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Diald for morons?
>
>
> >On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:
> >> Okay List, no activity for a while, I'll add some.....
> >> <snippage>
> >> time to get this working, I would have to give up, if it can't be done in
> a
> >> couple of hours.
> >
> >Well, it's probably going to take more than a acouple of hours because
> >there are probably multiple things you need to do to make it all work.
> >But,... imagine the feelings of self-worth you'll have after having
> >learned how to make it work!
>
> When your time is billable by the hour, you can't always afford to spend
> time on something that would be nice, but isn't absolutely required.
True...
Sometimes, if it is a system/skill/project that you foresee being able
to repeat in the future for other clients, it could be worthwhile to
invest some of your own time in it as a skill-builder. But that is your
choice, not mine, so I'll leave it up to you.
<snip>
> First I want to get the Linux box to be able to get out, without needing a
> console command, like ipup. Then I will deal with NAT, previous experiance
> (18 years) in computers, have taught me, that doing two things at once will
> ALWAYS fail. I have RH 6.1 on the Linux box, so it's a 2.2 kernel.
>
> >--Also do a google search for "trinityOS" which is a large document
> > giving a lot of info about these things.
>
> I'll have a look for this....
>
> >--for diald, memorize (;-) the docs that come with it, ask tons of
> > questions here. Be sure to get the 0.99.x version of diald, not the
> > 0.16.xx version.
>
> Don't have time to memorize docs, given the financially motivated limitation
> to the project time, I don't even have time to READ the docs. :-)
>
> >--For a mail server you'll need to know about sendmail (or exim or some
> > other sendmail replacement)
>
> I have the "bat" book, this is part of phase 2 anyway, can you recommend a
> good POP3 or IMAP4 server?
Sorry, I have no experience with them as either a user or an administrator.
> >--for a news server you'll need to know about INN (or c-news or d-news or
> > some other replacement). Personally, I'm running c-news here. Why? just
> > because I knew a teeny little bit about it which put me way ahead of
> > trying to learn INN for a single-site-with-no-downstream-feeds news
> > server. Besides, I'm told that INN is a bear to configure though I've
> > (obviously) no personal experience with it. C-news is old (as far as I
> > know it hasn't been updated in several years--anybody got any better
> > info on this??) and it is also somewhat of a pain to set up and
> > configure. D-news is, I believe, a commercial product.
>
> Leafnode will be used here, this has already been decided, I used it once
> before....
Please let me know how leafnode works out for you, I've been thinking
(but sunk in inaction) that it might be a good replacement for the old
c-news I've been using here for some time.
Fred
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