Sorry, I replyed to the wrong topic. MfG Marcel On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 06:32, Marcel Gschwandl wrote: > Hallo, > > I use an ATI Mobility M7 and had nearly the same problem. After the > upgrade to XF4.2.1 I also had to disable the Option "UseFBDev" "true" in > the device section. After that everything worked fine. > > Greetings > Marcel > > On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 06:02, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Hi, all. > > > > I've got a laptop (yes, I'm on this list, duh). I take it > > to a jobsite with me, I take it home, I take it to the > > office. Some places I can connect to the mailserver > > directly, but at other places I have to ssh through a leased > > line back to the office. > > > > I've got ssh set up with tunnels for one smtp port, > > three POP ports, a VNC session, etc. I set up exim > > to send its mail through the tunnel smtp, and set up > > fetchmail to fetch through the tunnel. > > > > The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work > > right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting > > up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped > > someplace along the way. A lot of the time I'm working > > locally, so I might not notice that the tunnel went away, > > and exim will tell me that the message couldn't be > > delivered, etc. > > > > The hack I've done is to make a little script, > > port_is_connected, so I can have my mutt-starter script > > abort with a line like this: > > > > port_is_connected $MAIL1SMTP localhost || exit 1 > > > > ...or less tersely... > > > > if ! port_is_connected $MAIL1SMTP localhost > > then > > echo "check the ssh tunnel, dammit!" > > exit 1 > > fi > > > > Does this approach make sense, overall? > > > > It took me a while to figure out how to do port_is_connected, but > > eventually I located nmap. This does the job pretty well > > and is pretty fast: > > > > nmap -p $MAIL1SMTP localhost | grep -q open > > > > I had been using something like this... > > > > ps -ef | grep "ssh.*$MAIL1SMTP" > > > > ... but I don't like that much for a variety of reasons. > > > > So this is what I came up with for port_is_connected: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > port="" > > host="" > > err="" > > > > while [ -n "$1" ] > > do > > > > case "$1" in > > > > -*) > > err="$err\nunexpected opt" > > ;; > > > > *) > > if [ -z "$port" ] > > then > > case "$1" in > > [0-9]*) > > port="$1" > > ;; > > *) > > err="$err\nhuh? [$1]" > > ;; > > esac > > elif [ -z "$host" ] > > then > > host="$1" > > else > > err="$err\ntoo many args [$1]" > > fi > > ;; > > > > esac > > > > shift > > > > done > > > > if [ -n "$err" ]; then printf "ERR$err\n"; exit 2; fi > > > > if [ -z "$port" ]; then err="$err\nno port specified"; fi > > > > if [ -n "$err" ]; then printf "ERR$err\n"; exit 2; fi > > > > if [ -z "$host" ]; then > > host=localhost > > printf "no host given; assuming host[$host]\n" >&2 > > fi > > > > if nmap -p $port $host | grep -q open > > then > > printf "port $host:$port is open: exit 0\n" >&2 > > exit 0 > > else > > printf "port $host:$port is closed: exit 1\n" >&2 > > exit 1 > > fi > > > > So, comments please. Is this a good way to do it, or am I > > missing a better, obvious way? Comments on style are also > > welcome. > > > > Tony > > -- Marcel Gschwandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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