[lug] Sendmail wackyness!

[Steve T.]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:55:01PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> What was broken with your Debian system?  Were you running stable or
> testing/unstable?

I was running a half-stable/half-testing distribution for a while, which
worked okay - aside from the fact that when I twiddled with it to add support
for some new software I wanted (KDE 2, X 4.1, etc.) it broke.  Upgrading
to testing didn't help, since it wouldn't even install (apt-get -u
dist-upgrade gave me a horrible mass of errors in the packages).

> www.linuxfromscratch.org if you want the "perfect" linux... ;-)

Slackware's as close as you can get to that without going insane, which is
why I enjoy it so.  Alas, though, one day I'll probably do an LFS.

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0600, Steve T. wrote:
> > 
> > I recently replaced my highly broken and annoying Debian system with the
> > wonders of Slackware 8.0, yet, much to my surprise, the sendmail configuration
> > that it sets up does something incredibly annoying.  Upon running fetchmail,
> > as mail arrives on the system, the headers and the first 5 or so lines of
> > the message are displayed to all terminals that I'm logged in on - which
> > causes a number of problems with programs where I like to see what I'm
> > doing.  If anybody has any direct experience fixing this problem, I'd
> > appreciate help - if not, I can send the messages sendmail has been putting
> > in my system logs that I suspect will point to the problem.
> > 
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." - Frank Zappa
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