[techtalk] Pine and new mail
My Pine mailbox doesn't seem to refresh itself as it should, or at least as I'd like it to. Frequently I'll have a terminal window open with Pine running, showing no messages in my inbox for several minutes, and then when I quit to the command prompt it will say "kept single message." So I run Pine again and there's the mail waiting for me. I've got "mail-check-interval=30" in my .pinerc, so it should be refreshing every 30 seconds, right? I've tested by sending mail to myself and it will sometimes sit for several minutes without showing me that I've got mail. Am I missing something obvious? Naturally this is more annoying than critical, but I appreciate any help. Jason ---- Jason Puckett / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.intemperance.net "I'm a fraud. A poor, lazy, sexy fraud." -- Bender (If mail to intemperance.net fails, use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Rick Scott wrote: > As an interim fix - if I recall correctly, doing a screen redraw > (control-L) when you are on the `inbox' screen should make it grab any > new mail in addition to redrawing the screen. That does seem to be at least a partial workaround. Thanks. As an additional data point -- sometimes I can send myself test mail and it pops up within a few seconds. It does seem to be refreshing itself, just at a much longer interval than I want it to. ---- Jason Puckett / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.intemperance.net "I'm a fraud. A poor, lazy, sexy fraud." -- Bender (If mail to intemperance.net fails, use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, the purple poetry goddess wrote: > One other setting you might want to set, under "Advanced User > Preferences", is check-newmail-when-quitting. It will prompt you to > "Quit, even tho new mail has arrived?" I think I've isolated the oddness. If I change the refresh interval (I forget the variable name now) in my .pinerc, it doesn't do anything. I tried changing it in /etc/pine.conf, and suddenly it's working. Beats me, since it's reading other configuration settings just fine from .pinerc. (There's nothing at all set in /etc/pine.conf.fixed.) Likewise, in the process of investigating the problem, I did discover the check-newmail-when-quitting.setting, activated it in .pinerc, and no dice. I'll try putting it in /etc/pine.conf just to see. (I'm pretty much the only user on my system, so I can tinker at will.) Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Jason ---- Jason Puckett / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.intemperance.net "I'm a fraud. A poor, lazy, sexy fraud." -- Bender (If mail to intemperance.net fails, use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Vinnie wrote: > I'm having this vauge brain thing that's saying "it's a compile time > option" It's entirely possible that you're right -- my pine came straight off the install disk when I set the system up, so who knows what options are set by default ---- Jason Puckett / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.intemperance.net "I'm a fraud. A poor, lazy, sexy fraud." -- Bender (If mail to intemperance.net fails, use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Desperate Plea for CDROM mounting help!!
Which device is /dev/cdrom linked to? Jason -Original Message- From: Lyta Alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 11:01 AM To: S. Stubbs Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] Desperate Plea for CDROM mounting help!! On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, S. Stubbs wrote: > > > > > Hey, it has been a while now and I have not been able to mount my > CDROM drive. I have mdk 7.2. I have one cdrom drive, it is recognized > correctly in the hardware. > It is IOMEGA Zip650 cd writer drive which is an internal IDE writer drive. > PLEASE SOMEONE HELP, this is driving me nuts. I went to a Linux User > Group install fest today, and they spent 6 hours trying to get it to work. They > tried all kinds of stuff, even not using the supermount, and it still did not > work. > I am able toburn a CD just fine, I burned 2 CDs today, but I cannot mount the > CDrom drive just to look at the contents of a CD. I still think in my mind that > it > has something to do with permissions and links to CDrom. > Here is my fstab right now, of course the LUG tried all KINDS of config here, > but since none of it worked I finally have it as this: > > /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 11 > > /dev/hdb1 /boot ext 2 defaults 12 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount user, fs=ISO9660, dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount user, fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,unmask=0 0 0 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 > I have also gone to the Mandrake website and followed the instructions there > for getting a CDburner to work. I can provide more info if necessary. So what > now??? > Could someone reply with a personal troubleshoot session on this?? > PLEASE, this is the ONLY PROBLEM I have now, I did get my Samba > working like a champ, and can see both my other windows boxes. > IF i don't get this fixed I will have to GIVE UP ON LINUX, since I will not be > able to view a CDROM!!! I will not be able to update any rpms from the > install CD!!! PLEASE this is a DESPERATE PLEA for help. > Susan > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Network / Firwall config files for Mandrake 8
Hello all, I just installed Mandrake 8.0 to be used as a gateway for my home network, because I heard it was really good for newbs like myself. (Actually I have been working with *nix OS's for about a year now, but it was always as a user on someone else's box. This is my first stint as an admin, which I am very psyched about!) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could tell me (or point me to a site) about the main configuration files for setting up my NIC's/firewall etc. I know that there's netconf and linuxconf, but I'd like to have more control over what they are really doing: setting up some config files. Plus I kinda feel like I am being baby-talked by those apps. I'd rather just know what needs to set conceptually, and the syntax for making it happen. I am more comfortable working from a command prompt anyway. Anyway, thanks for any help you guys can give! I knew that if I posted this to /. I'd get my head ripped off! -Jason -- Jason Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
