On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:28:31 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Chris Rodliffe wrote: > > > *.* /dev/tty12 > > > *.* /var/log/messages > > > > > > You can keep the split up logs as well, if you like. > > > > OK, I'll do that. What does the /dev/tty12 line mean though? > > That writes all syslog messages out to tty12. Then you can always see > the last 24 lines of syslog with control-alt-F12. > > > > Anyway, I added both lines, (though I changed the first to > > /dev/ttyS0 which is my modem) but still I get nothing extra between > > > NO! now syslogd is trying to write a copy of the log to ttyS0. OK! It did seem to me, logically, that that might happen which is why your /tty12 reference puzzled me. I get it now :) > > > > > > I'm a bit hazy on sendmail, all I know is Kmail's setup screen has an > > option to choose between Sendmail and SMTP, but not both. (I ticked > > SMTP). > > > If your ISP gave you an smtp server, it probably expects a sendmail-like > program to connect to it. (sendmail or postfix or...) Except, before I 'upgraded', Kmail was happily sending SMTP to my ISP..... > > > > > > > mcookie |xargs xauth add :0 . > > > > the final dot is important, right? ;-) > > Yep. man xauth doesn't really bite. It just gave me a rude message when I left the dot off :) > > > > > xauth list > > > > I got: > > argo/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 [alphabet soup] > > argo:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 [different alphabet soup] > > > > > > > > > Umm, OK, the argo/unix:0 cookies are the same, the argo:0 ones > > are different for user and root. (argo's my computer of course) > > > Hmmm. try (as root) > xauth -q -f /home/<user>/.Xauthority extract - argo:0|xauth merge - > xauth list I will, when I recover my computer (see below) > > > > Umm, no, and it Kppp bombs out with the same > > > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > > > message. > > > > HOWEVER, I'm running (as cr) some bastard combination of Gnome, KDE and > > Windowmaker, and in looking around the Gnome menus I found an entry > > (which wasn't there in my previous installation) labelled > > > > RH PPP Dialler > > > > So I clicked on it, typed in all the settings, and it worked! > > > > Kmail is now working exactly the same for (user) cr as it does > > for Root, including the way it doesn't send SMTP messages. > > I'd try sendmail. I've never used it, but I may give it at try if I can't sort out the SMTP problem. > > > > The /var/log/messages has virtually the same listing as before, > > except that after the line > > remote IP address 210.55.13.1 > > there's another line > > primary DNS address 210.55.13.253 > > > > Why RH PPP works when Kppp won't I'm not at all sure. According to > > the Kppp helpfile, Kppp forks after installation, the master process > > (GUI stuff etc) drops SUID, the slave keeps SUID and does the stuff > that > > needs root privs. Maybe that's where the trouble is. > > If it really worked that way we wouldn't be messing with xauth. Yep :) > > > > I like Kppp, but for now I guess I'll use RH PPP, which *works*, and > > very carefully document all settings before I change anything any > > further. :) > > > > Minicom bombs with the same messages as Kppp, by the way. So I should > > fix it, I guess. > > > HUH? minicom doesn't need X. At least I have one that works from a > console. Yes, this is the version on X I'm referring to. I didn't try Minicom from outside X. > > > > > (snip) > > > > Sold in England, Australia, NZ and Germany but never USA > > so far as I know. Extremely reliable, but it's sort of > > died now, swamped by cheap PC's. > > > Oh, ho! Another Kiwi! English actually, Kiwi by adoption. > > > > Thanks, but RH PPP seems to have relieved me of that necessity :) > > > > What I need to find now is how to log _all_ the ppp traffic between > > Kmail and my ISP. > > > That is a kmail problem, should be in the doco for kmail. I don't have > enough hd space to install kde and still be able to compile Wine. Wine > gives me free email, so there's no contest. It isn't in the doco, actually. I may have to temporarily use something else to try and capture the log. Or email Kmail's authors and ask. > > > > ROTFL! As a past owner and hacker of several BL cars, I understand > > and sympathise :) > > Great cars, rubber springs, Lucas electical systems, 4 inch ground > clearance and all. A mini is sort of a crossbreed of a motorcycle and a > truck. I woulda said a skateboard :) Now - Heelp! I don't know what I screwed up, but I quit from Linux (in the proper way) and trying to start Linux up again, it got as far as 'starting service atd' and hung. Three times. I tried 'interactive login' and skipping atd, but any of the succeeding services - crond, pcmcia etc - would hang too. I tried bypassing them all, but then it wouldn't let me log in but hung on password entry (not surprising really, since I guess one of those services does passwords). I tried running the cdrom in 'rescue' mode, with a view to seeing if replacing the files would fix it, the problem then is identifying which of the rpm's have the required files (rpm -qlp /Redhat/RPMS/*.rpm > fred gives a file showing all file destinations but not which rpm they're in, sometimes the place they go helps you guess the rpm names) What is a bigger problem is that rpm -ivh <path>/at-<version>.rpm just gives a message error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm and this is true, because rescue mode gives a list of most directories but not /var. All I can think of now is a complete reinstall of RH6.2.... which may be not without its own problems in persuading it to 'replace' the right bits of software. This has never happened to me before :( Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
