How to not-send email to a system user

2002-12-02 Thread Sergio Mendoza
Hi, As stated in the debian policy manual, I defined a system user with: adduser --quiet --system --group mynewuser The problem is that this user (although defined in the 100's uid) still gets email when emailed. This is something I do not want, since this user should not be allowed to rece

Problems with simplest network !!!

2002-09-30 Thread Sergio Mendoza
Hi, Have two i386 computers running Debian. Computer A has two network cards: eth0 (XXX.XXX.X.X) and eth1 (192.168.0.1). eth0 is connected to the internet and eth1 is supposed to connect to an internal network (192.168.0.0). The netmask for both is 255.255.255.0. eth0 works absolutely per

Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

2000-06-08 Thread Sergio Mendoza
Hi, Have you tried the autofs package? If your kernel has autofs support, then it does exactly what you want: mounts and unmounts system files on demand (particularly floppy). There is only one little problem: It takes 5min to unmount the system as a default. However, by modifying the initia