Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Replies interspersed below.
>
> At 10:07 PM 12/29/99 -0800, Steven A. Ackerman wrote:
>
> >I am using RH 6.1. I went through an interactive startup to see what was
> >loading. I'm wondering if the following are necessary to load:
> >linuxconf, local, sendmail and xfs. If one or all of them is not
> >necessary, I do not know how to stop them from loading.
>
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>
> "sendmail" is a Mail Transport Agent or MTA. That is, is is a
> program that sends and receives e-mail messages between your host and other
> hosts on the LAN &/or Internet. If you send and receive e-mail on the host,
> you need SOME MTA running. sendmail is the best known, but there are others
> -- exim, qmail, smail, and probably more.The practice is for whichever MTA you
> actually have to be invokable under the name "sendmail", because that's the MTA
> name a lot of programs that use e-mail services expect to be able to find.
Does anyone know how does Netscape fit in to this? And, if you use Netscape do you
need sendmail?
>
>
> "xfs" is the font server for your X Window system. If X is
> configured to use it, you need it.
>
> >A few other questions I have:
> >
> >Gnome starts automatically. I would like to stop that from happening and
> >be able to use my programs (at this point that would primarily mean to
> >dial my ppp connection and start netscape).
>
> Do you want to stop *Gnome* or X itself?
Which scrip would one have to modify and how inorder to on startup go directly to
the RH or KDE loginscreen and the have the option of after enting password and
password to login as a command line session. Corrently RH allow you to choose
between Gnome, KDE, and another Level. It would be nice to have the option here of
also running a command line without running X.
> I assumed you really meant the
> second, but Netscape requires X to run, so the following may not be what you
> want.
>
> As root, use a text editor to open the file "/etc/inittab" and look for the
> line that says (approximately)
> id:4:initdefault
>
> Change the line to read
>
> id:2:initdefault
>
> Save the file. Either reboot the system or run (guys - is this right?)
> "telinit 2" to switch from the current runlevel (which starts X) to the new
> one (which starts at the command line).
>
I would appreciate some elaboration on this if anyone knows.
>
> >
> >I installed Star Office 5.1 from the CD and I know where it is located,
> >but I don't know how to start it.
For Gonome make an icon for /*/.gnome-deesktop/Star Office.desktop
where * is root if you are running gonome as root
or * is home + whichever subdirectory is appropriate if you are not running
as root.
For KDE make an icon and use the Star Office start up options as found in the
readme files. Sorry can not help you futher here as I am currently in Gnome.
>
>
>
> >Currently I'm using Netscape 4.61 and using Messenger for mail. I have
> >more than one e-mail account through my ISP. It looks like it does not
> >allow me to have multiple e-mail addresses. If it does, I do not know
> >where to go. I checked preferences and it looks to me like I have to add
> >another mail server and it won't let me do that unless it is IMAP.
>
> I don't use Messenger, but this is believable. On the other hand, you can
> have many users on a Linux system, and each should be able to set up its own
> set of preferences for Netscape. So if you don't get a better suggestion
> from someone else, try adding other user accounts for the other e-mail
> addresses.
>
> >
> >Last question may be a little harder. When I dial my ISP using the RH
> >PPP Dialer, it dials my connection, handshakes, hangs up, dials again,
> >handshakes and then stays connected. Any suggestions?
>
> The answers here are inevitably in the details. So look at your logs to see
> what is happening. pppd and whatever dialer you use (chat? I don't recall
> what RH uses) probably log to /var/log/messages .
>
I am having the same problem with a dual boot system RH and MS Windows going to 2
different ISP. Important point is I get the same response from both ISP on dialup.
Comanalities are my hardware - modem and computer - plus the local phone system.
Thanks
Frank Roberts
