Re: [UUG/MLUG] a question and a thought

[Jason Carroll <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Tollerton;; wrote:

> 1. How exactly do you forward mail from showme to another host? I
> apologize if this has been asked before. .forward doesn't work, I've
> already tried that. I'm growing sick and tired of waiting 10 minutes for
> my inbox to crawl over nfs.

Forwarding on Showme does work it's just not immediate.  The mail server
doesn't use the .forward in your home directory, but one on the actual
mail server.  Every night (I think at midnight) the mail server copies all
the .forwards from peoples home directories into the central area and
deletes any that were removed. If you need it to happen before then, you
can type:

mkforward

after you create the .forward file, and it will update on the mail server
within 5 minutes.

(Everything I just said also applies to .procmailrc's if you use them).


> 
> I recall some website where I could change my mail password, up my quota
> and perhaps set up forwarding, but I forgot the url.

There is a page (only for student accounts) at:

https://mail.missouri.edu

This page will hopefully be replaced this summer with a much more useful
one for all accounts.  Depends on how much we can get done with our
limited application development resources, and there are a lot of things
we are doing especially with the need to get the Student Exchange server
up and going.

> 2. It's occurred to me that having a central distribution system for Linux
> CDs on campus would be a Very Good Thing. It would help people get
> upgrades faster, and discourage people from unnecessarily spending
> bandwidth on downloading distributions. There would be a much smaller
> turnaround time than ordering a CD from, say, cheapbytes.com (~20 minute
> delay as opposed to a couple days to receive a CD), and updates to the
> distributions could be made MUCH more frequently if we limit these burns
> to a relatively low volume. (Note that Walnut Creek still releases Linux
> CDs once every what, 3 months?) It would also make it much easier for me
> to maintain my own system ;) How feasible would it be for some established
> site to start burning Linux CDs and selling them on a reasonable margin
> ($5-15 total?) IATS Outpost immediately came to mind...

I'm not sure if we can do this right now, but might be much more likely in
the future as IATS starts making more use of Linux on our systems.  If
there is a lot of demand on campus then we might be able to work something
out with SLS since they have a cool CD Rom burner.  Of course it does take
staff time to get the image together and that would probably be more
probamatic than the burn itself.  If a lot of you are interested though I
can definately raise the issue.  

Already we have 10 new rack mounted Dell boxes that will be running Linux
and are hoping to move Linux to a higher "supported" software this coming
year.  If you really don't care about owning a CD, and have a decent net
connection, you can always install RedHat 5.2 (what we are going to
supportif anything) via ftp.  I operate a "mirror" of the redhat site (I
think freesoftware does also) and all updates for 5.2 at:

fission.iats.missouri.edu

it is just my personal workstation for now, but whenever we get a new
software version or tool for Linux I put it on there just to make it easy
for us.  If you want to use it feel free however no promises when it may
go down (It is running NT so I like using it just for the irony).

Jason


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