At 02:15 2002-05-22 -0400, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:
Right now though, I am about to fall asleep, it is after 2
a.m here on the East Coast.
This is a problem why?
When I do the host -t MX usa-hosts.com here from the shell,
I get:
[root(_at_)dns1 logs]# host -t MX usa-hosts.com
usa-hosts.com. mail is handled by 10 64.131.176.121.usa-hosts.com.
Yea, now _resolve_ the identified host. Guess what? There's no record for
it! oops.
mailer 9 (local): P=/usr/bin/procmail S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL
Good, that means it is indeed the LDA (and in determining it through
running the sendmail binary, we know it's the _current_ config file as is
read by sendmail).
Here is the content of resolv.conf:
nameserver 64.131.176.121
search usa-hosts.com
domain usa-hosts.com
Suggestion: you _really_ do want to add another nameserver or two in here
after yours (even if your named config uses root hints), just so that if
there's something wrong locally with yours, you can resolve with the
outside world.
[snippety]
May 22 01:16:56 dns1 named[30336]: running
Named started ok.
May 22 01:17:15 dns1 sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Sendmail started ok.
May 22 01:17:33 dns1 gdm[30387]: gdm_config_parse: Can't
find the gdm user (gdm). Trying 'nobody'!
[snippety-ippety]
Uhm, as a vision impaired individual, I'd think you'd appreciate that the
buttload of IDENTICAL gdm errors could be abbreviated to something like
"I get about four related messages every 30 seconds", then omit the pile of
them.
As for GDM, see the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. Looks like your RH
install didn't create the necessary user for the gdm (Gnome Desktop Manager
or somesuch, which is an optional X-windows component) install it
performed. GDM Has even less to do with procmail than DNS configurations.
The time of the many outweighs the time of the few (or one). Or something
like that (geez, and I'm not even a trekkie). Trim repeats and bulk from
messages, since more than one person is going to read them.
I will continue at it tomorrow and, following your
suggestion, I will download 3.22 and will find out how to
install it.
You might poke around RH and see if they have an RPM for it. You'd think
with security matters these days, they'd be maintaining a current
collection of the packages they distribute.
I know that once one knows something, it seems easy.
Just wait until you know EVERYTHING. I was 16 at the time...
You mentioned for instance, nslint and dlint, which I have
no idea what they are, or where to get them.
Good time to hit the web. They're both small scripts. searches of "nslint
DNS" for instance should pull up references to the one. Same sort of
process for the other.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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