Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:04:09 -0600 From: blair@itsnet.com (Blair Schmittel) To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <199508141604.KAA25908@scratchy.itsnet.com>
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>That's fair enough, but the rest of the info isn't too good yet; let's
>see what we can work out though...
>
>> With sendmail which is running in the background, it will send mail out of
>> the system through a shell account, but will no let any remote site connect
>> to the server. The server refuses the connection.
>
>Hmm. Sendmail can't send mail via a 'shell account', so I've got no idea
>what you're on about there. Whant to be a bit more specific about
>"the server refuses the connection" ?? What do you get if you say
I meant using "mail ???@remotehost.com"
>
>% telnet localhost smtp
>
It connects, then says ESMTP spoken here, then it freezes.
>> I can not get X-Windows to run either, I'm using X11R6. This is what it
says:
>>
>> Failure: not found
>> Bad: not found
>> Cannot: not found
>> ld.so: not found
>> X: 7: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
>> TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 2
>> giving up.
>> ./xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
>
>What are you actually doing to start X? You should run the configuration
>program (xf86config) first to configure X, and then start it using xdm.
>(Just say 'xdm' as root. Read the documentation for more info.)
>
I was using xinit, maybe that's why. :)
>> Blair
>>
>> PS How do you give a user a false shell, in the master.passwd file I tried
>> typing in the shell of /bin/false (I was told this) but it didn't work.
>
>If you were using vipw (which you must), shells not in /etc/shells will
>be rejected. Add an entry in that file for /nologin, and specify that.
>Make sure there isn't a file called /nologin.
>
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