kalliste

Thanks very much for your help!

It's all working dandy now

on to my next problem :-)

Hi All,

I'm trying to get the mail command to work.

I don't want to setup my own mail server, I just want to use mail to send outgoing mails from the command line or from scripts.

I was hoping to set mailrc and main.cf to use my web hosts mail server.

so I set main.cf

myhostname = <smtp.server>

am I going in the right direction?

I now get a warning and the machine hangs:

postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

thanks in advance

Great reply, exactly what I needed - reading the security.txt will have warded off a few other problems too!

thanks!!

Hi guys,

wow, big learning curve here, but I think I'm starting to understand things.

I've just upgraded my mandriva msec security level to 4 and when I try to SSH into my box the session dies without any error or message.

I've tried the man pages etc for SSH but I'm thinking something I don't know about has changed with the security settings (I used to be able to login at level 3).

Any ideas where to look or what to read?

many thanks.

Ant

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Thanks soooo much, just having Flex installed did the trick!

Hi all,

I'm trying to install fetchmail - I want to be able to remote log into my machine and check mail through pine.

After installing openSSL, procmail and yacc - I'm getting an error saying I don't have lex.

I did the full install of mandriva 2005, so am quite suprised at having to install pine and fetchmail.

Should these things already be installed?

If not, does anyone know a source for Lex, I've tried googling and freshmeat...

thanks

That's done the trick!

thanks

Nice one - thanks.

downloading now :-)

Thanks folks!

I tried both suggestions and get the same errors.

I've found nano, which appears very similar and has the added advantage of installing :-)

thanks again.

Hi all,

I've searched high and low for a tutorial on this but really can't find one.

On booting mandriva I go to a command line login first. At this login point I would like to see a quote from a .txt file I have.

Fortune is up and running at /usr/games/fortune -

I've tried adding /usr/games/fortune to /etc/rc.local

but nothing...

not sure what else to try to even get fortune working, let alone getting fortune to use one particular quote file.

thanks in advance - any help welcome...

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Hi all,

I'm trying to instal this file with absolutely no luck.

Any ideas?

many thanks