On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:27:49PM -0800, Dan Robinson wrote: > > Maybe most important, I don't have Linux email working yet. Lynx > works fine. But I guess I don't understand the relationship between > Mutt and Fetchmail/Sendmail. Mut says "No mailbox". I gather I'm > supposed to create on under /var/spool/mail. How is that done?
$ echo test | mail <your_login_name> > I like the potential for AE (editor) and the MC editor because > they're straightforward, AE starts off with a help box and they both > have options for macros, which I always like. > > But AE apparently isn't designed to word wrap or print. Are there > possibilities? The MC editor apparently doen't print either. Text editors are not word processors. Text editors usually lack formatting and printing functions. > The lpr command prints, but with only LF, not CR. What needs to be > changed so the printer recognizes the Linux format? How does it print? Are you saying you get the "staircase effect"? You probably need to set up a printing filter. Check out http://www.linuxprinting.org/ > MC mentiones spell checking, but it says "Error trying to staf > files". Ispell works for root, but not for normal users it says > "Can't create /tmp/ispell0tlbVC > > Lately man has started saying "man: can't create temp filename: > Permission denied". As root, I'm wondering who denied permission and > why. Is God interfering here? I thought I was God of this system. ?? What is the output of 'ls -l /' ? > As a normal user I have .alias and .bashrc, both with aliases. Is > there a reason? Is there some place I can put one such file that will > work for all users? The places I've tried haven't seemed to work. Can > I make changes and have them recognized without rebooting? I dislike bash, but I believe /etc/bashrc will load global bash settings. You rarely need to reboot. If you are changing things in .bashrc, you probably just need to logout and back in. > I'd like to write "c [directory]" to obey alias c='cd [??] |ls'. > What is it that's needed here? Someone (Jason?) showed me it worked > anyway, but now I think he left out the [directory] part. You don't want to pipe a cd command to ls. IMHO this is a silly alias anyway. Is it that hard to type 'cd <dir> && ls' ? > How about changing (slowing) keyboard repeat or "typematic" rate? > Don't be too sure about this. "Experts" have tried. The DOS/Windows > repeat rate is fine, or maybe a bit too slow. Dunno about linux. On OpenBSD one can do # wsconsctl -w keyboard.repeat.del1=<somenum> # wsconsctl -w keyboard.repeat.deln=<somenum> > In LS, Less or More (pagers) apparently prevent color format. Is > there a way around that? What's the sense of having LS (or file > readers I've seen) without a pager anyway? > > What does it take to change commands/program filenames without > causing problems? For instance I might change Less to Show, or > Display, with alias d='display'. You can alias about anything and not cause problems, because the alias will only be used when commands are entered on the command line. This is my fetchmail alias, for example: fetchmail='test -x /usr/local/bin/procmail && ssh phreke fetchmail && /usr/local/bin/fetchmail' However, if I have a script like: #!/bin/sh fetchmail exit 0 That would just execute /usr/local/bin/fetchmail. Also, if I do $ /usr/local/bin/fetchmail the alias doesn't apply, becaus it wasn't just 'fetchmail'. Hope this helps a little. Good Luck! -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
