Benedikt Eric Heinen writes:
> I suppose I found a bug in libc (V5.2.18 - don't have a newer version
> around, maybe someone else can check the newer version), but according to
> the ctime man page the following source yields a wrong result:
>
[... ctime(0) ...]
>
> The result for this is:
>
>
> I've just installed "bind" as a caching only domain name server. In this
> new debian version is really very easy to setup and run. It really works,
> and it is happily serving all the machines in my department. Every time it
> cannot resolve a name, asks to another DNS server outside. Next time
> I read the Changes file in the distribution of linux-2.0
> There are some comments about the networking setup and sendmail filelocking.
> Do they affect debian users?
>
[...]
>
> (2) Sendmail:
> Something about file-locking conventions. Does the debian
> sendmail package obey this?
> Also perhaps how I could also start my sendmail configuration
> as if I only just installed it. I seem to have edited it
> too many times and cant put it back the right way.
> ie Do I deselect it, remove it and then reinstate it ?
You should be able to reconfigure sendmail by running `sendmailco
> With the zsh package version 2.6-beta13-2, there is something really
> strange happening when root uses zsh: if I do a
>
> % su
>
> I get a new shell that is *not* a root one, where when I do
>
> % su -
>
> I effectively get a root shell. This is especially strange as the su
> com
> Just a quick question. I was looking through the log for sendmail this
> afternoon and noticed that it stopped recording where mail was comming
> from and only recording who the mail is for.
>
> What is causing this to happen ? and how can I get it to record who the
> mail is from and who it is
>> I'm not sure I understand the situation. Can you provide an excerpt of your
>> sendmail log where this has occurred?
>
> I guess the receive lines are logged from the stand-alone SMTP-Server to a
> rotated logfile, the delivery-requests are logged into the correct one by
> runq. Think there is
> Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so that I
> only run popclient when it is?
Try using `fping' on your network gateway host. e.g.:
if fping -q $GWHOST
then
popclient ...
fi
Or, if you prefer compactness (also good for crontabs):
fping -q $GWHOST && pop
> XKeyCaps is a wonderfull X app that will generate those ugly xmodmap
> commands for you a-la Macintosh. Take a look at:
>
> http://home.netscape.com/people/jwz/xkeycaps/index.html
>
> I don't think there is a .deb package for it but it compiled "out of
> the box" for me.
Guess what! There is
> I have configured the sendmail in Debian 1.1, in either the following
> two ways:
>
> 1) use /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig which comes with the sendmail Debian
> package
This is the preferred method.
> 2) follow the instrucions in /usr/doc/sendmail to create a .mc file,
> which is quit simple in fa
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