On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:42:18PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > A few small questions: > > 1) How do I tell Linux that my modem on /dev/ttyS2 wants to use IRQ5? > It's a non-PnP ISA hardware modem. setserial will change the kernel's idea of what IO/IRQ the modem is on. It won't change the settings on the actual modem though. > At the moment I have to set it to IRQ4, the default for the third > serial port. I want to set it to IRQ5 to avoid conflict with stupid > DOS/Windoze drivers that don't like sharing serial port IRQs. man ttys > and man mknod are silent on the subject of IRQs. You lost me there: under linux the DOS/win drivers should be completely irrelevant - and hence no conflicts !? > 2) I have a dead file somewhere that is interfering with some userid > stuff. Some of my directories give numerical user/group ids instead of > root or pigeon. exim refuses to start with "can't get user name for > userid x" errors, so no mail functions work. My /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow seem to be OK; they contain the following (and also a > peculiar gnats/admin entry which I don't understand): (I haven't got > round to setting up shadow passwords yet) > > root:onetwothreefour:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > pigeon:wedontwantyourbloodywar:1000:1000:Pigeon,,,:/home/pigeon:/bin/bash > gnats:*:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System > (admin):/var/lib/gnats/gnats-db:/bin/sh > > Any ideas where I should be looking for the fault? Basically that number is not found in /etc/passwd ... As a short-term measure, you can create a new user (adduser --uid xxx --gid yyy) should buy you time (make sure that this user cannot log in). Medium term: Figure out where those files come from (which will appear to be owned by your newly-added user). If they come from some package, then it's probably a bug... > 3) I want to use exim & mutt for mail, not staying online all the time > but dialling up with pon/poff to send and receive in batches. Can > anyone suggest the best howto / config tools for this particular > purpose? For outgoing mail: exim should do this by default - you should find that /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim attempts to flush the mail queue when a connection is established. For incoming mail: fetchmail is your friend: set it up as a system-wide service - IIRC it too creates a file in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to wake up the fetchmail daemon. -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
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