From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 19:16: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D5C37B41B for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFDC28B1E; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:15:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:15:57 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: "Mike. Stacy" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: mail [sending itself mail, backspacing?] In-Reply-To: <002e01c1d928$d76193a0$0301a8c0@480mhz> Message-ID: <20020331221322.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Mike. Stacy wrote: > how do I get my freebsd box to stop sending it's self mail. Also I use gnome Can you elaborate? Does it send itself mail (to root) alerting you that various cron or at jobs completed? > and when I use a terminal I can't backspace, is their any way to fix that??>>.................. > -Mike There is definitely a way to fix backspace issues. In the syscons (console mode, non X-Windowed), when I hit either the Backspace or Delete key, the character to the left is destroyed/removed. However, in emacs (editor), backspace for some reason sends C-h (ctrl-h) to emacs. What shell do you use? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message