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Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt



also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.09.0141 +0100]:
> yes, it obviously did.  not just the fonts and icons -- it's as if i'm
> seeing the entire screen blown up about 50x, but because it's so big,
> all my screen can display is the upper-leftmost corner of it.  the
> little icons in the corner or the screen, which are usually about 75px
> big, are now about 200 or 250px.  each.

dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86

> > PrintMotd no
> > PrintLastLog no
> 
> commented out.  didn't do anything.  

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

dude!

> (i'm typing here, there's no cut-and-paste, so only a little:)

/etc/init.d/gpm start

> orange:~> fetchmail -qf ~/.fetchmailrc
> fetchmail: foreground fetchmail at 12515 killed.
> 104 messages for nori at sccs.swarthmore.edu (370945 octets)
> reading messages for nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu:1 0f 104 (2704 octets)
> ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to
> /usr/sbin/sendmail %Tsendmail: fatal: /etc/postfix/main.cf, line 94:
> whitespace in attribute name: "reject_non_fqdn_hostname,
> reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_map_rbl"

you messed with postfix. fetchmail works fine, but postfix doesn't
accept any mail anymore. oh dear... should i let you handle this, or do
i need to make use of my root powers?

> ... and then i killed it, because i ran it before and just watched it
> for a while, until i realized it wasprobably eating my spool.  there
> were 184 messages when i ran it the first time, now there are 104.  oh
> well, this is what i'm saving a backup of my messages on sccs for :)

fetchmail should totally not flush the mail from POP3 when it fails to
deliver locally...

you can temp fix this since you use procmail:

add an option

  mda "/usr/bin/procmail"

to your .fetchmailrc's mailbox description. then it will bypass postfix
and deliver to procmail straight. not a bad way to handle it anyway for
a single-user system, and even though fetchmail(5) says not to do this
because it's bypasses the helpful "filtering and error-handling
techniques of the MTA", i am unconvinced that the author even really
knows what he's talking about with modern MTAs...

> Error in /home/nori/.muttrc, line 877: in_reply_to: unknown variable
> 
> line 877 of ~/.muttrc reads:
> 
> set in_reply_to = "at %d, %a insinuated:"

s/in_reply_to/attribution/

> (null:) can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct.

dman posted a fix.

> and i noticed something in the dselect menus about reconfiguring or
> moving manpages or something ...

noticed? and not read?

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