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[Howard Eisenberger <howarde AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:17:49AM -0400, Mark Glassberg wrote:

> I changed my fqdn from Basiclinux to the name of my isp, and opened a
> user account in the name of my account on my isp.  Surprise, surprise!
> The BL1 mail script works!  Can someone tell me how to redirect the
> hand-off of mail from Mutt to sendmail?  The messages in Mutt suggest
> that the two programs talk to each other.  I don't need those messages,
> but they imply that the interaction is more than a simple pipe.

If you've got sendmail running, you shouldn't have to tell Mutt 
anything. It will automatically hand off the message to sendmail.
If you are online, it will be sent immediately. If you are offline,
it will be stored in the outgoing mail queue (under /var/mail/ or
var/spool/ ?) and will get sent by the sendmail daemon when you
go online.

You should be able to use "mailq" to check the outgoing queue and
"runq" to force the mail to get sent if necessary.

I was also able to send mail from Mutt using pmail instead of 
sendmail by postponing (instead of sending) in Mutt and then using 
Mutt's postponed folder as pmail's outbox. 

Howard E.

    
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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> > startx does not automatically give you an xterm.
> > If you want one, put 'xterm' in ~/.xinitrc
> 
> I did this eventually (yesterday) and got an xterm.  I 
> have no idea how to run any programs (including a window 
> manager) without one.  

With icewm you click on the penguin to get a menu.  In that
menu you will find an xterm.

> You told me NOT to edit .xinitrc for some reason.  

Actually, I said not to edit xinitrc (no dot).

> I had answered ttyS0 (com1) in your little program 

That would have created a link from mouse to /dev/ttyS0.

> and also filled that in with the configuration program.

And that probably by-passed the mouse link.

> Every few minutes I am getting the message Id S1 respawning 
> too fast, disabled for 5 minutes - now what is going on?  

It sounds to me like you changed something in /etc/inittab
If so, what?

> The keyboard is still not working properly.  No backspace.  
> No Alt-F2.

That doesn't work in X.  You need to do Ctrl-Alt-F2.

> I have an older keyboard (F1-F10) on the left.  None of my 
> books tell you how to describe it.  84 keys, I think.  
> The arrow keys act as if the Numlock is on (it is not). 
> The configuration program mentioned nothing about setting 
> the keyboard.

man XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb

Cheers,
Steven