MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)
Can anyone give me a short and sweet rundown of what I need configured to get a working fetchmail system running? I have SMail set up and working (I can send E-mail from my system, and I can send/receive email between different accounts on my system). Now I want fetchmail to grab mail from my ISP, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also added a line saying that I want mda formail -s procmail. I have a .forward file in my home directory, and I have a .procmailrc file. If I run fetchmail -c it checks my ISP and notifies me I have X number of messages waiting. However, I can't get it configured so that it retrieves the mail and sends it to my account. I can't tell if fetchmail is even running (I start it at login using start-stop-daemon -S --exec fetchmail -- -d 5000) although it shows up on TOP every now and then. How can I check if it's running, and if it's retrieving any mail, where is it putting it? Any help would be greatly appreciated... -Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xscreensaver
I've never tried using xscreensaver before, and so I am not sure if this is an xscreensaver configuration problem, or an xbase configuration problem: I recently tried installing xscreensaver, but when I try to start it I get an error message that xscreensaver does not have permission to open the display (i.e., xscreensaver cannot open display 0:0). What do I need to change to permit this? Thanks, -Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect-ftp Question
Is there a way to configure dselect-ftp to automatically retry downloading packages during an FTP error? For example, this weekend I did an install of hamm(frozen) using dselect-ftp. Before bed I started things rolling, then went to sleep hoping I would have a whole distribution when I woke in the morning. Unfortunately, it had hung about half way through on a single file, asking if it should retry. Well, of course I want it to retry. I hit it manually, and it finished (with a few more hangs), but I lost several hours of time waiting (when I could have been sleeping!) Any way to configure this? Thanks, -Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance
I ordered from LSL (from a US address) and it took several weeks to show up because they had some problem with a bad address label, so it bounced back and forth a few times. I e-mailed them for help, and they took almost a week to get a response. Other than that, they seem reputable and offer Debian at an excellent price. -Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unicode Support
Can anyone steer me towards documentation on Unicode support in Linux? Note: 1. I have looked through the stuff on the Unicode Standards Web Site. 2. I have read the man pages stuff for the Gnu C Lib (although what I have may be out of date). What current documentation is there on say libstdc++ (for egcs or gcc2.8) and glibc2/libc6? Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xfstt
Has anyone used xfstt on a regular basis? I've gotten Netscape to work using TT fonts, now I'd like to get other X applications to work and I want to know what other's experiences are. Any comments? -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Executing a process on another virtual terminal
Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? For example, I would like to run the RC5DES client from Distributed.net on a virtual terminal, so I can alt-f7 over to it and see how it is doing from time to time. I tried cat rc5des /dev/tty7, which doesn't work... Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X-Windows Question
I'm pretty embarassed to be asking this question, since I'm sure there's a simple resolution. But, here goes: I have recently tried to follow a better security model, by creating a user account for myself on my Linux box, instead of doing everything as root. In doing so, I have somehow managed to change a setting somewhere such that I can no longer get X to boot from my user account. I can start an X-windows session as root, no problem. I get the dread: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X I have tried setting my /home/bfulgham/.xserverrc to start my X server, both as /usr/X11R6/bin/X and /etc/X11/X, and /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V and I have set my DISPLAY=:0.0, I have verified that my X is linked to XF86_S3V and I have skimmed the man pages, but can't figure out why it works for root, but not for my user account. I have verified that my /etc/X11/Xsession files allow console (and finally, all-access), but to no avail. Anyone have an idea? I'm sure it's pretty easy... -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PGP Issues
I've just installed the pgp-us package, and tried to run the key generation portion of the program. It accepts my input, pass phrase, etc., but fails as follows after calculating the key indicating that it failed while attempting to write the key file to my home directory. Has anyone else had this problem? I am running the latest release in the hamm distribution. Could this be happening because pgp needs to have its permissions modified in some way? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: BASH question
For those who are interested, my BASH problems were due to the presence of some control characters in the script file. I was using the ae editor, which in its latest incarnation was inserting a ^M at the end of each line to signify a carriage return. Once I switched to vi I could see the characters, and delete them. This fixed the scripts. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
More BASH questions
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate screen dumps of bash sessions? For example, let's say I have a test-mode application that asks for some input and then outputs something in response. Is there a way to have this whole exchange dumped to the printer, so that both the program output and my manual input are copied to the printer? This would be similar to the screen dump capability of DOS. Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
BASH question
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts? For example, I want to create a short script called print so that I can do some formatted printing: #!/bin/sh # Print -- formatted printer tool to get a 5-space margin and a header/footer pr -o 5 $1 | lpr When I try to run this script (chmod +x) I get error messages indicating errors when the script is executed. There are two flavors: 1) /bin/bash : No such file name 2) /bin/bash : Invalid file or directorypr --where part of the error message includes the last few characters of each line in the shell script. I suspect an environmental variable is at fault, however my other scripts (installed during my hamm install) work fine (the one's I didn't write), plus scripts that I have edited seem to work in some cases, but not in others. This error occurs in virtual terminal mode and in login and non-login x-windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FW: ppp troubles
-Original Message- From: Fulgham, Brent/SCO Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 9:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: ppp troubles Is there anything unusual about using ppp-2.3.2 under hamm? I had a working ppp system under Red Hat 4.1. I had to remove that partition at one point, and I decided to reinstall using Debian (1.2). I immediately upgraded to hamm (without testing ppp) and have not been able to get a dial-up ISP connection to work. I have: 1. Compiled a custom kernel with ppp support. 2. Installed the ppp modules 3. Installed ppp-2.3.2 4. Configured my options, ppp-up, ppp-down, pap-secrets, etc. Initially, pppd would connect to the ISP, but would disconnect when pppd tried to get my ISP to authenticate itself to my system. I found that fix on the Debian FAQ-O-MATIC, and so I added the noauth tag to my options file. Now pppd disconnects because it reports that it times-out while waiting for a response from my ISP to a request from pppd for a config format. So, is there any new ppp information available? The FAQ/HOW-TO's don't seem to have information on configuring these options. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: dselect seg fault after dpkg upgrades
I have been working lately on upgrading to hamm. In an effort to fix a problem with dpkg-ftp, I upgraded to the following packages: dpkg_1.3.0.20.deb dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.deb I think you need to upgrade to dpkg-dev to get a working dselect. -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
