Mark Porthouse Technical FAQ

If you wish to run jar files on Mandrive you will need to download a Java Runtime Enviroment (jre)

First install Mutt from
Mandrake Control Center>Software
Assuming that you use Maildir and that the mail files are on the local machine for the local, logged in, user.
Once installed you need to ensure that your $MAIL environmental variable is not showing a mailbox address. You can check using
echo $MAIL
if it is something like
var/spool/mail/root
then you will need to […]

First get hold of the latest Blackdown Java Virtual Machine:
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/
Once you have downloaded (possibly ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin) then move the file to
/usr/local/bin/
and make it executable, by right clicking on the file, selecting properties, then permissions and putting a tick in ‘is executable’.
Then in a terminal, as root, run:
./j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
(ensure that the filename is correct to what you downloaded.
This […]

To enable Virtualmin to run on Webmin ensure that:
Postfix:
In /etc/postfixmain.cf you have
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
and that you use the command ‘postfix reload’ after you make the change.
Ensure that webalizer is installed.
Ensure that apache2-mod_ssl is installed so that you can create virtual hosts that will serve web pages from an SSL server.

Install Postcast Server on the machine which you need to enable the sending of email by SMTP from