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Best mobile phone for Linux nowadays?
by Chris Green 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

My wife's Palm Treo has died (after bing dropped for the umpteenth time) so she needs a replacement. The fundamental requirement is a phone which will synchronise contacts and calendar with Evolution or Thunderbird/Lightning. So what's the best way to go nowadays? We'd prefer direct phone <--> desktop synchonization but I suppose it's not absolutely vital. However I'm happy enough to install a sync server of some sort (though my experience with Funambol was not an entirely happy one when I was trying the same with my Nokia E71 a year or so ago). -- Chris Green

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Re: [ALUG] Mail Server
by Stuart Bailey 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Hi Paul, I think postfix is still tour best bet. You can authenticate users against MySQL, ldap or sasldb, so you don't need a linux account for each user. You email addresses can be handled the virtual domains, so Paul@anydomain can be configure to go to one account for Paul, or you can have separate accounts for Paul. Any combination can be configured. Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Managing Director) Linux Specialist & Software Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: (0845) 658 3563 Direct: +44 (0) 1953 878162 Fax: +44 (0) 1603 858583 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.linusoft.co.uk ----- Reply message ----- From: "Paul Grenyer" <paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com> To: "ALUG ML" <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk>, "accu-general" <accu-general(a)accu.org> Subject: [ALUG] Mail Server Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 20:57 Hi all I want to create an email server so that I can send and receive email for a number of my domains. I've tried using postfix, but it's a pig to setup and it appears I need to have a user account on the server for every email address and I can't restrict one user to only one domain. e.g. if I create a user called paul and I have two domains, I get paul@domain1 and paul@domain2. Of course this could be my misunderstanding. So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be: 1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. Support email forwarding. Any suggestions? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! __________ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 6995 (20120324) __________ The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. http://www.eset.com

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Mangled pemnissions in a directory
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Greetings all! I have a wierdly mangled directory ("funny-dir" for present purposes). This may have occurred during a machine crash (I'm running this in a VirtualBox machine hosted on Windows and I recall that a few days ago the Windows host crashed). Basically: from the parent directory, if I do 'ls -l' I see: drw-r--r-- 2 ted ted 4096 2012-03-11 18:53 funny-dir and that looks fine. But if I then do 'ls -la funny-dir' I see a lot of stuff all looking like: ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? funny-dir/. ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? funny-dir/.. ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? funny-dir/file1.pdf ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? funny-dir/file2.pdf [and so on] Note that the "/." and "." both get the "?" attributes when viewed using 'ls -la funny-dir', as compared with the normal results viewed using ls -l' as above. Finally, if I try 'cd funny-dir' I get: bash: cd: funny-dir: Permission denied However, if I 'su' to root, 'ls -la' gives: drw-r--r-- 2 ted ted 4096 2012-03-11 18:53 funny-dir/. drwxr-xr-x 4 ted ted 4096 2012-03-24 21:07 funny-dur/.. -rw-r--r-- 1 ted ted 4766 2012-03-10 16:18 funny-dir/file1.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 ted ted 4738 2012-03-10 16:19 funny-dir/file2.pdf [and so on] which is all as it should be! I can also, as root, 'cd funny-dir', and again things look normal from inside funny-dir. Can anyone say (a) What's going on? (b) How best to fix it? This is the first time ever thar I've seen this sort of thing happen. I'd like to be able to fix it directly, since the files were put in there by saving them out of several emails, each with several attached files with daft ("Windows" style) names which I had to change (every one); there are over 40 files, and it took ages!! With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 24-Mar-2012 Time: 21:33:56 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------

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Government ePetition
by Montmorency 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Don't think too many ALUGers would disagree with this one. e-Petition to put Alan Turing on the next £10 note: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659 Montmorency montmorency(a)ukfsn.org bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com

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Java not installed?
by Chris Walker 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

I'm trying to install this - http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/wiki/How%20to%20install%20Necessitas%20… but it keeps telling me that I need a java compiler. I've installed java-1.6.0-openjdk but I'm still getting the same message from Necessitas. I've tried issuing the urpmi command to install openjdk and it tells me :- No package named openjdk The following packages contain openjdk: java-1.6.0-openjdk, java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo, java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel, java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc, ... My system is Mandriva 2011.0 64bit. Any ideas how I can overcome the error message please?

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Scanners
by Bev Nicolson 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Have scanner won't scan. We've been there before but not with Simple Scan. It knows my AGFA Snap Scan is there but says it's unable to connect. It is plugged in! I've tried gksudo simplescan (was that right?) and nothing happened. Is it another case of having to install VueScan?* And if it is, can someone kindly take me through how to install it? Many thanks. Bev. (11.04.) *That's what I had to do with my last computer to get it to work.

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Really strange automount symptoms
by Chris Green 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

I have been trying to diganose/fix this automount problem for quite a while. Automount of CDs, DVDs and USB sticks works fine on two of my xubuntu 11.10 systems but not on my desktop system. While trying to diagnose this I have found that it makes a difference using a remote display! If I run thunar on my system called 'test' where it works I see:- thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. ... and the USB stick automounts fine. If I do exactly the same except by a remote ssh connection to 'test' from my desktop system 'chris', I see:- thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device. ... and the USB stick *doesn't* automount. When I run thunar locally on my desktop system I see the same output (and failure to mount) that I see when running via ssh on 'test'. What on earth is going one? -- Chris Green

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TeamCity & Jenkins behind Apache2 Proxy
by Paul Grenyer 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi All (Please excuse the cross posting) I've Jenkins and TeamCity running on two separate VMs within my home network. I have another (physical) box running, among other things, Apache 2 (on Ubuntu server) and I have port 80 forwarded from my router to it. I've configured a number of virtual hosts on Apache, which work fine, and have proxies to two other web applications (subsonic & Nexus) running on Tomcat on the same box. What I want to do is add proxies for Jenkins and Tomcat. This is my configuration: <VirtualHost *:80> ... ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On <Proxy *> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass /subsonic/ http://localhost:8080/subsonic/ ProxyPassReverse /subsonic/ http://localhost:8080/subsonic/ ProxyPass /nexus/ http://localhost:8080/nexus/ ProxyPassReverse /nexus/ http://localhost:8080/nexus/ ProxyPass /teamcity/ http://192.168.1.x1:8080/ ProxyPassReverse /teamcity/ http://192.168.1.x1:8080/ ProxyPass /jenkins/ http://192.168.1.15/ ProxyPassReverse /jenkins/ http://192.168.1.x2/ </VirtualHost> I think the Apache 2 configuration is fine and that the problems reside in the TeamCity and Jenkins configurations. I access them like this: http://<mydomain>/teamcity/ http://<mydomain>/jenkins/ In the case of TeamCity, it tries to redirect me to login.html, but looses the /teamcity/ part from the URL. In the case of Jenkins, the first obvious issue is that the CSS isn't referenced properly and some of the links don't work. I've done the obvious stuff like update the server URL for both TeamCity and Jenkins (just like I had to with Nexus). I've restarted everything, even the boxes/VMs. And Iv'e googled. I'm still stuck. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer

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Backup Trigger Method
by Paul Grenyer 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

Hi all I want to setup some regular backups on my Ubuntu server box. I have done this before, but it was a while ago and I don't remember how I did it. I seem to remember dropping some scripts into directories the contents of which are executed at a particular interval. However, i can't find these directories on the server i did it on and google isn't helping, What's the best way to schedule backups? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer

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How do USB drives get automounted? (mine don't and I'm trying to work out why)
by Chris Green 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

I have three xubuntu 11.10 systems running here, one is a 32-bit laptop and two are 64-bit desktop machines. USB drives plugged into the laptop and one of the dekstop machines get automounted correctly but on the other desktop machine although the USB drive is recognised (appears in dmesg as it should) it doesn't get automounted. So how can I diagnose what's wrong or missing on the desktop machine where the automounting doesn't work? I think it's *possible* that I have removed something necessary and/or misconfigured something as this machine is quite heavily customised. As I have a working machine and a non-working one I may be able to compare things between the two machines to see what is wrong but I need to know the sort of places I should be looking. What processes and packages are involved in automounting a USB drive? As I said it appears to be recognised correctly by the kernel, messages in dmesg and syslog are the same on both the system where it's not automounted and the system where it is. After the kernel has recognised the USB device as a mass storage device what then mounts it automatically and (if configured to do so, which it is) pops up thunar? Any/all help would be most welcome as this problem is getting really annoying! -- Chris Green

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