[nzlug] OMG, whats going on with my Ubuntu?!?

[Sid Bachtiar]

I'm a desktop user, I don't know if I use a Network Manager, I use
"Networking" and "Network Tools" if that's what you mean.

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   network 192.168.1.0
   broadcast 192.168.1.255
   address 192.168.1.9
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.1.2

On 7/25/06, Craig Box <craig at dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
> Sid Bachtiar wrote:
> > My network kept getting disconnected. When I restart my computer, I
> > could ping it for a while, then its disconnected from the network
> > again. May be I accidentally installed or activate some sort of
> > security modules?? I just upgraded my OS from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06
> > this morning. I used $sudo update-manager -d. It was all fine under
> > 5.10.
> >
> > May be there's a new security feature in 6.06 that I'm not aware of.
>
> There shouldn't be.  Are you a desktop/laptop user, and are you using
> NetworkManager?  If not, can you paste your /etc/network/interfaces file?
>
> [MTA]
>
> >> Probably best off with exim - it's available in the Ubuntu repository
> >> and lets you specify a downstream mail server that can do all the
> >> subsequent heavy lifting without exposing your network.
> >
> > I thought Ubuntu provided postfix by default? Atleast they did last time
> > I tested it out..
>
> They do, because they had to decide on a default MTA, and the Postfix author
> worked for Canonical at the time.  My experience is you're far more likely
> to get good help in New Zealand with Exim, as it's been Debian's default for
> years, so more people on LUG lists have used it.  By the way, Exim is in
> Universe.
>
> If you want a good e-mail setup, follow a HOWTO like
> http://www.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/ - you can install
> Exim and Courier, add one line to the update-exim4.conf.conf to tell it to
> use maildir, and all of a sudden your machine is a POP3/IMAP server for
> anyone with an account on it.  Anything for Debian will apply to Ubuntu as
> well.  You could then either have mail delivered to it by SMTP, if you dare,
> or use something like fetchmail to retrieve it from another server.
>
> Craig
>
> (P.S. A general note to everyone -- please don't reply to a big long message
> with a line of text at the top.  If you have to, reply with it at the
> bottom, but if you have the time, please trim so only the relevant part is
> quoted).
>
>
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