Re: the key to stabilizing my system

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote:
> I might try it myself on Friday but since it's first time for me, I don't 
> want to screw it up worse.  But I'll take a look at least.

It would be impossible to screw it up worse at this point.  I mean, I was
contemplating starting from scratch again.  This could only make things 
better.

--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote:
> I took a look.  Sounds like a good plan.  If you're still there at Prosearch 
> tomorrow early afternoon, we can talk about when to do it.  I should be down 
> from Fremont around 1:30.   I did call Nancy last night and told her what's 
> going on.  She is willing to wait but still wants the mailing list, so after 
> we get my system stable I'll be doing her stuff.   She would like me to test 
> it on my machine first since she has only a production machine, not a test 
> machine.  She says she has sendmail on the server and Qmail on the DNS 
> server, so her problem is with sendmail.

I've never installed sendmail on a Debian system and don't know what would be
involved.  Postfix is free software and is allegedly very similar (if not
compatible with) sendmail.

> I'll do some research and maybe 
> can help there.  I need to get more knowledgeable on sendmail anyway if I 
> get another sysadmin job.   Also, since the mailing list software have web 
> interfaces, I need to make sure X Windows works on my machine as well.

Yeah, that'll be tricky.  If the above /etc/apt/sources.list change fixes the
dependencies problems, you could take a stab at X Windows.  You may be able to
do it through base-config or perhaps tasksel.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-init-config.en.html

> -- E.