jkreps@rev.state.ne.us wrote:
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1) And most important: even though I use YaST1 and put "JLKreps" for my hostname, and "AtHome" for my domain name, as I have always done before, and even though rc.config contains FQHOSTNAME="JLKreps.AtHome", when YaST proceeds to run its various install scripts, I get 3 consecutive error messages concerning hostname. After YaST is done and I exit it, then when I check with 'echo $HOSTNAME' it shows 'linux'. Should I include a 'period' at the end to fool it? I've tried leaving it blank and YaST won't allow it.
linux is the name that is assigned by default. Did you reboot (sorry do not know what to restart to update the hostname) by any chance? How are things then? I do not think yast will do it. I vague remember seeing the same thing
2) Also important, and the reason I am sending this msg from work and not at home, is that the suse-linux-e@suse.com mail list majordomo keeps bouncing my msgs, when I send them from home. I'm using KMail and sendmail at home. When I signed up majordomo had no problem replying to my request nor accepting my verification msg. My email address, registered with suse-linux-e, is: jerrykreps@jlkreps.net. When I send a msg to SuSE's maillist, my outbound msg has the correct from and reply address. When the bounced msg come back Majordomo says it doesn't have a 'jerry@jlkreps.net' registered for the list. Of course not! At no place in my system do I refer to my email address as 'jerry@jlkreps.net'. When my msgs go out the addresses are correct. How are they getting corrupted? BTW, in the month I've used SuSE 7.0 & Kmail, the SuSE list server is the ONLY list server bouncing my mail.
did you set up the tables for sendmail? (virtusertabe, userdb... whatever they are named in /etc/mail) There are some articles in the SDB (search smtp) on that.
3) The email protocol, SMTP, used to work on SuSE 6.3. On 7.0, Kmail can't see it. ???
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4) When I open an xterm window, su to root, and try to run an x application from the command line, root responds that it can't open an x window. In SuSE 6.3 I had no problems doing that, but I'm probably missing something in ~./Xdefaults that was set automatically in 6.3 but wasn't set in 7.0. ???
you need run "xhosts + localhost" prior. After that, you have to reset roots DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 this should work. Check the settings. With the new install you might have overseen that.
5) When I open an xterm and su to root, then do 'mail', SuSE 7.0 thinks I am still 'jerry' and not 'root'. So, I have to logout as jerry and log in as root to check roots mail. In SuSE 6.3 I could check root mail this way.
Ah, your user is jerry? that might explain jerry@jlkreps.net mail address (for reasons guessed above). But I've no idea for your problem. ;-( juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq