[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls



Philip Hands writes:
> Yes, similarly I get a sense of impending doom when I see that one
> suggested, but I cannot remember why --- BIND (named) going a bit weird
> perhaps ?

Rob Browning writes:
> I didn't have bind running then.  I have a note somewhere that it made
> sendmail at least complain to the logs, and I seem to recall some hang on
> the part of fetchmail, but I can't remember for sure, and perhaps the
> problems I had have been fixed in newer versions.

I'm not running sendmail, but fetchmail seems happy enough.  Perhaps you
tried  something like

127.0.0.1	localhost	hasler	hasler.dhh

The order is important.  I believe that there was once a HOWTO floating
around that had it wrong.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


--  
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org


Reply to: