Re: tlug: a novice's .config file

[Drago Goricanec <drago@example.com>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:18:39 +0900 (JST),
Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

> -- Is there a good word-counting software for Linux? 
> I've been looking but haven't found one yet. 

What kind of words? `wc' is a standard Unix word counting program.  Do 
you need something more?

> -- I have sendmail/fetchmail/procmail configured and 
> things usually run pretty normally. two problems have 
> been occurring, however. the first is sometimes an 
> incoming mail message will cause an error (something 
> having to do with improper SMTP - I'll have to jot 
> it down properly next time). As a result, I don't 
> get to see that message in the inbox, so I can only 
> imagine (and hope) that it wasn't something important. 

Please post the error message.

> The other thing that is happening is, over time, 
> my mqueue directory starts filling with email, 
> apparently outgoing mail that didn't make it out. 
> I have sendmail set to "deferred" so it should be 
> sending everything out to the host...
> how to get it to do that and how to prevent that 
> unsightly buildup in the mqueue directory? 

You can wake sendmail up as necessary with

/usr/lib/sendmail -q

That'll flush the queue.  You can put this in your /etc/ppp/ip-up
script if using dial-up, so the queue is flushed when your IP
connection to your ISP is established.

Drago



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