On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sera Hill wrote:
> Netscape setup fine using the ./ns-install command (at least it *said* it
> did), and it created the default dir (/usr/local/netscape), and when I check
> it, netscape's there. My mail server is a POP3 server. It's basically any
> mail program I have. I'm not sure how to configure it so that it checks my
> mail properly. I know how to config the smtp side of things, but not the
> other. Is there some command I should use? Also, I'm running on a machine
> connected to a network, but my hostname is different from my e-mail address.
> Could that be part of the problem?
it sounds like you're having a configuration problem with sendmail (or
exim, whatever mail program you have installed). If you have sendmail
install, try sendmailconfig (I think that's the name). Setting this up
was rather annoying for me, personally. The difference between machine
and e-mail names isn't a problem. You give the mail program a login and
password for your POP account, and it uses that to get mail. It doesn't
care about any e-mail addresses. I'd try installing the Debian version of
communicator. There are packages in there that will install and set
everything up you need to get netscape running.
> I am using slink. I'm not having problems installing debian, it's netscape
> that's the problem.
Slink is Debian 2.1. If you want to use Communicator 4.6 you'll have to
get several packages from the potato distribution. I'm not sure exactly
what those are, but I don't think it'll be a minor problem. I'd just use
Communicator 4.5, personally. There are packages available for it in the
slink distribution, and that's what I run. You don't need to d/l anything
from netscape that way. The packages have everything you need.
> Thanks. So the $PATH adds the above to my past one. Which profiles file
> does this change? I tried looking at the /etc/profiles file and noticed it
> was unchanged.
The $PATH is your path variable. If you do an "echo $PATH" you'll see
your path. By adding the $PATH in the definition of your path variable,
you're saying to put the value of the old path variable in the place of
$PATH and add on the other things you have added and store that in PATH.
try playing with it to see the effects. Doing it that way will only
change the environment for that one shell. If you want to make it more
global, you can put the line in your .bashrc or .bash_profile and then any
shell your user uses will have that change. If you want a global change
(effecting ALL users) you can put it in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc.
Rob
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