SUSE Linux
Ok. I have finally upgraded my RedHat box to SUSE. Well, by upgrade I mean that I have built a new machine and installed SuSE, and now I have moved most things across. It has been a tiny bit hard in places to get things to work, but overall it has been good. This has been another of those cases where a private BLOG would be good since not all of the information is useful.
I installled SuSE Professional 9.1 on the server. This worked well enough. I did most of the setup on one box, and then moved it to an essentially identical box when I decomissioned the old box. The options I chose worked well, but not all things were installed that I needed. WML was one of these, and it installed most of the bits I needed to go with it. gFont was missing though so I needed to install that myself. Telnet server needed to be added too, and SiteCopy.
Swat was not running – a SAMBA configuration program running on localhost:901. I also needed to configure FTP to allow non-anonymous internal connections.
But the most infuriating one of them all was that ^#&* POP3 was not working with outlook. Neither SSL or un-encrypted. Argh. After a while I found out I needed to create a file called /etc/c-client.cf. In it I needed to place three lines. They are
- I accept the risk
- set disable-plaintext 0
This is *NO* joke. This took too long to work out. I also needed to added the main.cf for the mail server so that it would accept domain mail.