Issues with Gentoo

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Thu May 20 08:41:50 EDT 2004


Hi.  You will probably get more answers to your questions if you post
them to a Gentoo list.  I've just started playing with Gentoo, so I
can't answer any of them.  Look around on the gentoo.org web sight.
They have docs on doing lots of things in Gentoo.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:22:03AM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> Well I did get a Gentoo system up and running.  I switched back to Debian
> for the time being, just in case I get any mail or any web hits, as these
> aren't working yet in Gentoo.  My questions are.
> 1.  Exim 4.34.  There's no eximconfig like in Debian!  I modified the
> exim.conf.dist and copied it over to exim.conf, or actually I did that in
> the reverse order.  I think the way it's working now is that I can't receive
> incoming mail from remote servers nor can I send mail to a user on my server
> from my server if I specify the domain name.  Unqualified usernames E.G.
> jaybird instead of jaybird at jaybird.no-ip.info work and I can send myself
> mail that way.  I think the problem has something to do with relaying, but I
> thought I had all that set correctly in the config file.  Help!
> 2.  Pop3.  In particular, qpopper which is what Debian had.  If I try to log
> in, when I give my password it waits a long time then tells me
> authentication failed, something about an unknown module.  What's up with
> that?
> 3.  Apache 2.  I don't like the document root of /var/www/localhost/htdocs.
> I tried to change it to /var/www like in Debian but when I do that every
> time I try to hit the server I get a 403 forbidden, no matter what I access.
> Changing it back in the config file solves that problem.  I looked at the
> file permissions and I think they're right.  Any thoughts?
> Well I guess that's all I can think of right now.  Over all, I think I'm
> going to really like the Gentoo experience.  I did it from a Stage 1
> Install!  Brag, brag!
> Jayson.
> 
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