Sorry. I must have hit reply (R) instead of cc to all receipients (A) earlier.
Back on list now. Using kmail.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Meg....er...is there some reason this thread is no longer on the
> newbie list? One major purpose of the list is to make a
> database of info for folks to go look up solutions to problems.
> The info won't be available to anyone if the thread is taken
> private.
>
> I suppose that reinstalling shouldn't make a difference, but
> I've observed the same phenomenon as well. I'm glad your
> updates icon is now working properly, you see mine did the same
> as yours (I just was forced by circumstance to do a re-install)
> on my original install (end of September). That's why I knew how
> to fix the problem right off. But, interestingly enough, the
> same symptoms do not occur on this install. My updates icon
> worked fine from the getgo this time.
>
> I'd say that if you have extra disk space and want to test
> (that's what a beta test is for, testing for bugs) an operating
> system not deemed by it's authors as ready for distribution yet,
> then by all means get a copy and have at it. But don't install
> it in place of your working os. That'd be a mistake.
>
> Version 5.2 was called Leeloo, 5.3 was called Festen, 6.0 was
> called Venus and 6.1 is called Helios. The beta of 7.0 is
> called Oxygen and it'll be called something else other than
> Oxygen when it's released.
>
> If you're using Netscape, why use sendmail? Netscape doesn't
> need it. I have a 6 system lan with 4 users (me, wife & 2 sons)
> and we all connect through a mandrake system masquerading for
> our lan and connected through a 28,800 (bad phone lines) bps
> modem. I use netscape's mail client on linux and the rest of
> the family use win98 & outlook express. each client gets it's
> own mail. Now I have some reasons to use smail or sendmail with
> this setup and eventually will do so, but in your case it sounds
> like extra problems that you don't need.
>
> Where are you resetting your name and why not just name it
> correctly during setup? Anyway let's look at /etc/HOSTNAME what
> does yours have in it? here's mine:
>
> obi-wan.home.net
>
> Ok, now lets look at /etc/hosts what does iyours have in it?
> here's mine:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.0.1 obi-wan.home.net obi-wan
>
> 192.168.0.2 bbs.home.net bbs
> 192.168.0.3 matt.home.net matt
> 192.168.0.4 jason.home.net jason
> 192.168.0.5 barbara.home.net barbara
> 192.168.0.6 yoda.home.net yoda
> 192.168.0.7 yaddle.home.net yaddle
> 192.168.0.8 qui-gon.home.net qui-gon
> 192.168.0.9 alan.home.net alan
>
> Ok, now ignoring all but the top two entries (yes, there are
> only six machines, but some are dual booting systems so have two
> different names and IP's), the top one on yours should be (and
> stay) exactly the same as mine (thats the loopback device). The
> second line should be what you named your computer and your
> domain. So, yours should be something like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.0.1 local.mydestiny.net local
>
> Local for a computer name is kind of unimaginitive, not so?
> Anyway, enough for now.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Meg wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alan.
> >
> > This is my 2nd installation of mandrake, actually. First time I tried it was
> > during the Christmas holidays, and that's when the updater didn't work. I did
> > a new install because I think I screwed up sendmail, and I didn't know how to
> > fix it. Couldn't even ask about it in mailing lists, cause I couldn't isolate
> > what was wrong. So I reinstalled the other day, and when I tried it again this
> > morning, right about after I sent you that question, it seemed to work fine.
> >
> > Now, I find that a bit odd..why does reinstalling sometimes fix things almost
> > magically? I thought that that only happened with windows.
> >
> > Do you think it's a good idea to start playing around with Mandrake 7.0? And
> > when you say Oxygen, is that a "popular name" for mandrake 7.0, like, they
> > way they say, slink or ham or potato for different releases of debian?
> >
> > My old sendmail problem started, I think, when some servers wouldn't accept
> > mail from my system because it was "unknown". I kept trying to play around
> > with my hostname, trying to change it from localhost.localdomain to something I
> > liked, and these changes would take effect. It kept reverting back to
> > localhost.localdomain from, say, local.mydestiny.net, and I don't quite
> > remember what I did to screw it all up, but one thing I never did was reset
> > my hostname. Netscape sometimes comes up with an error
> > that my localhost is unknown, and I should contact my sysadmin. But of course,
> > after it reset to localhost.localdomain, this error doesn't come out anymore.
> >
> > Now, with my new install, which seems to be a bit better, i tried setting my
> > hostname again. (and the netscape error came out again) And to my bewilderment,
> > it reset back after a day or 2. I'm connected via cable modem, using dhcp
> > (not sure if I set things correctly, but since I can browse and send email, I
> > assumed they are correct). I'm using smtp now, and I don't want to push my
> > hostname preferences for fear of screwing things up again. Does this happen?
> > What would be wrong with it?
> >
> > Meg
> [snip]
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Margaret Uy
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