Re: Dumb Newbie

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster margo bijoux nom br>]

Jwp wrote:

> Install and set-up was a breeze.  I even got the Apache server and Proftpd
> installed and running with minimal effort.  (I did however attempt an
> install of Pureftp and the Gui front end (I forget the name now) which did
> not go all that great, once I installed the gui I was unable to find out how
> to launch it?? But now that I have Proftpd up and running I would like to
> remove Pureftpd and the gui from my system, how would I do this?
>  
if you installed Pureftpd and gui using rpm packages , it's only a 
matter of running rpm -e packagename .

> A couple hours later and I finally managed to get a response from the telnet
> connection both through {# telnet localhost 25} as well as { telnet LAN IP
> 25} from another machine on my home network.  However when I tried {telnet
> mydomain.com 25} from another machine on the network I received a connection
> refused.  Please excuse my ignorance but, is this working as it should?
> Refusing outside access to my smtp server or is this an indication that my
> ISP is filtering traffic to port 25?  Also now when I send mail to
> usr mydomain com it doesn't get returned to the sender but it also hasn't
> shown up  in the usr inbox either?   Is this a sign that my ISP is working
> against me?   Do you all know of a way I can tell if my ISP is the problem?
>
> If so can I set up the MX record to send mail to port other than 25 say
> 10001 and then forward port 10001 through my router to port 25 on the linux
> box?
>
>
>  
First , you have to ensure that mydomain.com is pointing to the machine 
running postfix. If it does , and a telnet mydomain.com 25 fails , 
probably your ISP is blocking you. If telnet LAN IP 25 works , it really 
is the ISP.. You can try to convince them to open port 25 , but it's 
very though...

> Another one when I shut down Fedora and it runs down all the shutdown
> procedures they all show [OK] except:
>
> ...
>
> Shutting down system mouse services (something to that effect)
> ....[FAILED]
>
> ... 
>
> IS this something I need to be concerned about?
Probably the same that happens here with me: gpm fails to start.. then , 
when you try to stop it during shutdown, it fails to stop (because it 
wasn't running at all)... When booting , keep an eye on the service 
starting (choose to see the details during boot) and probably you'll see 
gpm failing to start...

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Pedro Macedo