On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 10:47:32PM -0400, jack wrote: <snip> > 3. Normally, I like to start X manually. Unfortunately, xdm on debian > always try to run X on first. I tried to change mode to 3 in inittab, but > it's still there. Debian's inittab is different than RedHat's. xdm will run in runlevels 2-5 by default if /etc/X11/Xf86Config is present. To stop xdm from running remove the soft link /etc/rc2.d/S20xdm. > > 4. regarding sound, I had to use makedev to make device in /dev. Is it > common with debian? Last I knew, sound wasn't built into Debian kernels, and hence no devices. > > 5. I am still newbie with sendmail. It's now ok to send out > emails. However, it does not know how to deliver mail to local user. I > have /etc/hosts including localhost(127.0.0.1) and rg(10.0.0.1) -- I > use it as my host name. I guess it's causing trouble. what's the best > way to set it up? (ppp is the only network connection.) If your using exim instead of sendmail, add localhost in the line of /etc/exim.conf so it looks like 'local_domains = localhost:<hostname>'. Not sure if your using something else.
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