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

[Tymm Twillman <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Dude.  That's really fscked up.  Whoah.

-Tymm

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jason Carroll wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -- Jason Carroll                | IATS Systems and App Group  615 Locust St. 
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>