FortKnox's Journal: Linux Woes are Over...

Yes, after a couple days of banging my head, and bugging poor AntiFreeze (thanks a ton, AF!), I have solved all my Linux setup woes.

For an FYI - yeah, it was just postfix (the sendmail was there as a script to keep postfix working). The weird thing that really threw me was that SuSE has its own configuration files. You can't get 'postfix' advice, unless its 'SuSE postfix' advice. After browsing through groups and stuff, I figured out where postfix config hides and where the localdomain list was, and viola, everything is peachy.
Afterward, I resetup my firewall, and now everything is back secure. Now, I'll never touch that setup again (just apache to work with tomcat and JBoss). ;-)

Thanks for all the advice and input :-)

"Now, I'll never touch that setup again ..."

[Surak]

Famous last words. :-P

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Re:"Now, I'll never touch that setup again ..."

[jawtheshark]

Along with "I'll stop smoking".

I've been drinking like a bum and smoking like a chimney the last weeks.

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Re:"Now, I'll never touch that setup again ..."

[jawtheshark]

You say that to the guy that has smoked all day, and just came home 10 minutes ago and is already at his second can of 0.5l beer.
I hope you are right, but somehow I doubt.

I feel for you

[Pinball Wizard]

I need to get a Linux/Java workstation going. If there were only an RPM I could get that would magically install Java, J2EE, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Connector/J, Log4J, Ant, etc. And make all those things work together seamlessly!

I have a feeling this is going to be a rather lengthy adventure. :)

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[gmhowell]

I have no idea if such a thing exists/works, but couldn't you use apt-rpm or (if machine not already being used) use Debian or something similar? Seriously, apt-get and the dpkg mechanism is wonderful for this kind of crap. Maybe Gentoo has something similar?

That's my only complaint with RH: no built in way to just say 'I want "foo" and you go automatically fetch all the crap for "foo" to work'.

FK: congrats. My apache, mysql, and postfix settings are all much the same way.

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Re:I feel for you

[agnosonga]

I was just about to pimp gentoo as well.
its the best distro ever!!!!

Re:I feel for you

[leviramsey]

Mandrake: urpmi foo

MandrakeLinux: the good stuff from Red Hat, combined with the good stuff from Debian.

Re:I feel for you

[gmhowell]

MandrakeLinux: the good stuff from Red Hat, combined with the good stuff from Debian.

With just a hint of begging thrown in for taste.

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[Pinball Wizard]

Well, I use Debian servers quite a bit, but its all server stuff, command line only. I am a newbie to the world of Linux desktops, so I have Red Hat going. I haven't been impressed by the Debian desktop because a) old code(great for a server, not so great when you want to play with the latest toys) and b) lack of programs/desktops available with the default install.

Red Hat 9 is really easy to get around and use. It's the first Linux desktop that has got me thinking about dumping Windows altogether, especia