Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:36:03 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: closer, no cigar. Message-ID: <20040717073603.GB89079@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <20040715071739.GA51814@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20040713235330.GA16511@toxic.magnesium.net> <20040714031953.GA3825@gothmog.gr> <20040714175854.GB54340@toxic.magnesium.net> <20040714193929.GA1384@gothmog.gr> <20040715014104.GA88382@toxic.magnesium.net> <20040715071739.GA51814@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:17:39AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-07-14 18:41, Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:39:29PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > You also have to set things up in /etc/mail. Have you changed any
> > > configuration files in that directory? If yes, what were the
> > > changes you made?
> >
> > Good points. I began by essentially swapping all of
> > /etc from the Emachine to the HP (here). In /etc/mail
> > originally I had several spam filter sites keeing me from
> > tons of spam. tHE last change I made was to back out of
> > the spam sites so that everything culd get thrru.
> > Here is an ls -lt from /var/spool.
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 20992 Jul 14 18:13 mqueue
> > drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 1536 Jul 14 11:45 clientmqueue
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp dialer 512 Jul 13 18:16 lock
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 512 Jun 3 09:58 output
> > drwxrwxr-x 7 uucp uucp 512 Mar 16 09:23 uucp
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 uucp uucp 512 Mar 16 09:23 uucppublic
> > drwx-wx--- 3 root daemon 512 Feb 27 02:22 cups
> > drwx------ 2 root daemon 512 Jan 10 2004 opielocks
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Jan 10 2004 lpd
>
> Hmmm. What does /var/spool have to do with the setup? Gary, relax.
> You're mixing directories and files and programs and hostnames and
> ... and pretty much everything.
>
> I didn't ask about /var/spool :-)
>
I've been tracing everythinng I can think of
that might contribute to my mail connnnection being
"refused by [127.0.0.1]" I'm rebuilding 5.2.1 andwilll
use mergemaster to give me ``clean''' /etc/mail
sendmail files. IIf *that* fails, I'll admit
defeat...
gary
PS: I keep thinking that it's got to be one stupid file
I'm not seeing....
>
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