From: Mark Page (mpage at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Fri 24 Sep 1999 - 21:57:44 IST
Sean,
Thanks for all that, much appreciated.
Would someone else on the list just give me, as a beginner, the answer as to
how I unlock /dev/modem. It surely isn't a difficult question, or is it?
> Mark Page wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I got no responses to my fetchmail/sendmail query - never
> > the less I decided that perhaps the problems were being caused by using
> > SuSE with so many apps. probably conflicting with one another. In the
> > event I decided to re-install RedHat 5.2, hoping that I now had a little
> > more knowledge in setting up a dial up account.
> > Typing 'minicom' at the command line all I get is response 'device
> > /dev/modem locked'. Which script do I alter to overcome? I know the
> > modem works because it worked under SuSE.
>
> get RH6.0 it gets over a lot. Modem configuration is easy with
> netcfg,
> even with 5.2 AFAIR. Get the updates as well, they (as usually)
> improve
> on a hell of a lot of things.
>
> > I suppose the moral in this is that SuSE is dead easy for novices, and
> > chock full of apps. ( maybe a bad thing), like myself but I don't
>
> I've really got to try slackware again sometime. My first dist is
> was,
> and is still running on my first machine (umsdos too if you'd believe
> that).
> Ahh the days of a diskds, to the x disks...
>
> floppy's you understand, not anything like the 'modern rubbish' like
> CDROMS or zip disks.
>
> > actually like the look and feel of it and suppose that there is no
> > better feeling than having control over your machine rather than
> > vice-versa.
> > Would someone please give me a dig out here.
> >
>
> To your last request, fetchmail/sendmail. Whats sendmail doing ?
> Usually (on my home machine anyways), sendmail tries (and fails)
> to send mail (insert irony here) to sean at domain greebo.gofree.indigo.ie and
> of course
> fails miserably. Anybody spotting what Greebo relates to wins a
> reply.
> I solved this by using procmail (or deliver) to get the mail to the
> local
> user. (I've read the bat book and don't want to again, at least till
> the
> next edition comes out, any time now according to o'reilly).
> Procmail will set the mail in /var/spool/mail/<username> or as
> according
> to ones filters. This has worked for me, though not really fully
> tested.
>
> usually unanswered requests to this list seem to be answered in three
> ways:
> 1) A flurry of answers, usually going on to something entirely
> different
> (eg. see the current discussion on 'real drivers' in the linux
> kernel list)
> 2) Not answered at all, since we (those in the know 8), know the
> magic tricks
> and are held to the magicians Oat of never reveling a secret.
> (bull)
> 3) We're too lazy, then some one answers out of the blue.
>
> personally, I'd go for 3 if more than two days unanswered.
>
> Sean.
> .
>
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