Re: X question for upgrade

["Steve Brown" <openbsd@prayforwind.com>]

Thank you Claus & Zvezdan,

I am new at this, so please pardon this dumb question. What logfile and
where? I've already tried re-installing OBSD to get fresh logs and then
ftp'ing all of /var/log to ISP's webspace, only diff's I get are dates &
times.

>From reading afterboot, sounds like sendmail is already configured to deny
mail sent directly to my box. Being a desktop this is exactly what I want,
I'll just fetchmail (or equivalent) when I want to read my mail. I saw
nothing there or in the files referred to by it on anything referring to
sending from a local account to an outside account, unless I'm
misunderstanding it, which is a distinct possibility. (Example: Assume I've
named this thing "prayforwind.com" and I have an account /home/steve. So I
want to send an email to misc@openbsd.org and have it actually get there.)

Speaking of fetchmail: This is probably another stupid question, but why do
I get "permission denied" when I try to pkg_add <fetchmail, or anything
else>? pkg_info gives me the same error. I'm logged in as root; on FreeBSD
(or Linux) if I log in as root the system will allow me to do -anything-. I
can live without fetchmail for now (by reading mail off an external FreeBSD
system via ssh), but at some point I'll almost certainly want to install
other software. Is there some kind of "super-root" or something that I
should know about?

Thanks, Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Claus Assmann" <ca+OpenBSD_misc@zardoc.endmail.org>
To: "Steve Brown" <openbsd@prayforwind.com>
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: January 2, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: X question for upgrade


> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002, Steve Brown wrote:
> > No error message at all, in fact I see all the lights OK on DSL when I
send
> > with "mail". It just doesn't arrive at it's destination. (I am sure of
this
> > as I tried for 3 weeks to make it happen. I know I'm connected to the
'net,
> > as lynx browser working OK)
>
> Then check the logfile. What happened to the mail?
>
> > Works just fine under FreeBSD(sendmail), different partition, same
machine &
> > network. Both O/S are setup as "dhclient" facing a BB router which
PPPoE's
> > via DSL. If I nix the router and setup both O/S as PPPoE, same thing
> > happens.
> >
> > I should mention too, my ISP blocks mail send from "localhost". In
FreeBSD
> > sendmail.cf I changed the line DS to DSsmtp.myisp.com (under the comment
> > about smarthost: may be null) to get around that.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand the relation between 'blocks mail send
> from "localhost"' (whatever that means) and using a smart host.
> The latter gets around restrictions on outgoing SMTP, maybe you
> should do that in OpenBSD too (see cf/README: SMART_HOST).