On Fri, 21 May 1999, JF wrote:
> >
> > Your own. See, sendmail is the SMTP server program that many ISPs use.
> > If you leave the SMTP server section in Pine blank, what happens is it
> > uses 127.0.0.1:25, which is the address for localhost, and it goes to port
> > 25, which is the SMTP port. From there, it's just like it would be if you
> > sending mail through your ISPs SMTP, except that it works a bit faster for
> > the user interfaces.
>
> Okay, so having it blank is exactly equivalent to having "localhost" in
> there?
>
Exactly. =)
> > http://mycomp.com/~mtrausch/
> > Or:
> > http://www.mycomp.com/~mtrausch/
> > or:
> > http://penguin.mycomp.com/~mtrausch/
> >
> > Does that clear that one up? :-)
>
> I think so. Thanks for the example. I've got it if the hostname is a
> computer and mycomp (domain) is a LAN. Is that right?
>
Right. A FQN (Fully Qualified Hostname), like penguin.mycomp.com,
resolves to an IP address. A domain name (like mycomp.com), resolves to a
network IP address, not a computer IP address. :^)
> Well, I've got 2 separate isp mailhosts in two different user-id's on one
> machine and sendmail is successfully sending with neither of these
> configured. If I DID need this however, it seems to only allow one domain
> to be specified. <?>
>
Right. There is a setup for others, but that gets more complicated, which
is totally out of my ballpark of knowledge for the moment. When I
graduate from high school, I'll have the ability to get a job so that I
can afford to get the technical docs in paper on all of that stuff, and
sit down, and learn it ;).
>
> Is netscape using sendmail to transport?
>
By default, yes. However, if you configured it like you would for the
Windows version, then the answer is no. It depends 100% on what your
setup is ;-)
> > My old Windows registry couldn't fit on a floppy disk! With UNIX, I've
> > got MORE settings to adjust, yet, I can fit all my configuration files
> > onto a floppy disk in a .tar.gz'd file. Heh.
>
> I'd be interested to know how you do this. Can you specify all of your
> config files by just using .*rc and *.conf and *rc ? I decided that, until
> I get backup working that I can tar archive all my home and root and etc
> dirs copy them to a dir that windows can see, backup from there, and that
> would pretty much do it. I need to figure out how to write a scipt to do
> this. So far I'm doing it manually.
>
Here's a script that will back up all of /home and /etc:
-----------CUT THIS HERE
#!/bin/sh
#
# Simple Backup Script
# (C) 1999 Michael B. Trausch
#
clear ; echo "executing \"tar c /home/\*\"..."
tar c /home/* > /tmp/home.tar
echo ""
echo "executing \"tar c /etc/\*\"..."
tar c /etc/* > /tmp/etc.tar
echo ""
echo "compressing /tmp/home.tar..."
gzip /tmp/home.tar
echo "compressing /tmp/etc.tar..."
gzip /tmp/etc.tar
clear
echo "job done!"
-----------CUT THIS HERE
Now, if you want that to happen regularly, then put the script in
someplace like /bin, and have cron run it as root regularly.
Change the /tmp/etc.tar and /tmp/home.tar to whatever path you want the
files in.
My recommendation is that if you have a CD-R drive, that you place the
gzip'd tar file onto a CD-R about once per month. That way, if something
irrevokable does happen, you'd be able to recover from it.
If you don't have a CD-R drive, well... Try to use some other medium, if
you can! :-)
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