From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 08:51:35 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA23046 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:51:35 -0700 Received: from scratchy.itsnet.com (scratchy.itsnet.com [204.118.1.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23032 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:51:32 -0700 Received: from mail.itsnet.com by scratchy.itsnet.com; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:04:09 -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:04:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199508141604.KAA25908@scratchy.itsnet.com> X-Sender: blair@itsnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Michael Smith From: blair@itsnet.com (Blair Schmittel) Subject: Re: FreeBSD??? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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. > >> blair schmittel CyberNaut > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[ > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ blair schmittel CyberNaut blair@itsnet.com Internet Access Provided by CyberNaut