Re: was: I screwed my net access
To follow up my own problem, isn't it funny how sending the message
triggers your mind....
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect
> with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my
> mail with fetchmail. It seems that the remote system is querying my
> machine for some reason, and my smtp port is not listening. ftp works,
> nntp works, telnet (which I'm using now to write this from pine on my
> providers machine)
>
I had munged up /etc/init.d/networks
and I had played with /etc/hosts.deny
after reseting these to original settings, I think, all is getting better.
> Take pity on me, I've spent way too much time reading to be
> objective about this anymore....
I take that back, don't pity me, feel free to throw your rotten veggies at
me for cluttering up the list...with my self inflicted probs...
Rich M
qnc496@durhamnews.net
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