Mailer Connections
Thanks again Riley, apparently you are leaving in the UK.
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The top "Received:" line gives the critical evidence when it reports "helo=localhost.localdomain" as this states that your system's hostname is currently set up as localhost.localdomain as stated, and this is also confirmed both by the bottom "Received:" line and by the "From:" line. As you can see, this is wrong.
I never had to edit /etc/sysconfig/network in all previous versions of RH. Some kind program was doing the right thing for me. I only had to edit /etc/hosts. Now when I had to re-install RH7.1 things went wrong. When I tried
to edit in /etc/hosts the line: "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
localhost" to
"127.0.0.1 localhost" I could not print any longer and on booting, section
starting lpd, I would get a long complain not finding the printer.
I now then checked in RH6.2 /etc/sysconfig/network and it said there HOSTNEAME="Peter". I put that into RH7.1 and now after your last mail changed /etc/hosts
to:
127.0.0.1 localhost 202.95.238.2 philonline.com Peter 202.78.74.68 webcard.skyinet.net Pedro
Printer prints now and no complains on booting about lpd. I assume my from address should be correct as well now.
I assume that you received my last mail twice. When I sent it the first time and had changed HOSTNAME to "Peter" from localhost.localdomain I had not rebooted as you suggested and I got the following messages in /var/log/maillog:
Aug 13 14:03:45 localhost sendmail[2687]: OAA02685:
to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=esmtp, relay=vger.kernel.org. [209.116.70.75], stat=Data format error
Aug 13 14:03:54 localhost sendmail[2687]: OAA02685: to=<[email protected]>,
ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:17, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=esmtp, relay=phoenix.infradead.org. [195.224.96.167], stat=Sent (OK id=17eUmE-0008Fi-00)
after rebooting:
Aug 13 14:42:08 philonline sendmail[1158]: OAA01156:
to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:11, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=esmtp, relay=vger.kernel.org. [209.116.70.75], stat=Sent (2.7.0 nothing apparently wrong in the message.)
Aug 13 14:42:16 philonline sendmail[1158]: OAA01156: to=<[email protected]>,
ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:19, xdelay=00:00:08, mailer=esmtp, relay=phoenix.infradead.org. [195.224.96.167], stat=Sent (OK id=17eVNM-0008RL-00)
You can see that after rebooting my address is correct. You replied to the first message where From: was wrong yet.
Did a programmer change something that one has to edit now /etc/sysconfig/network a file I did not even know it existed or did I miss something when installing RH7.1?
Regards
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Hi Peter.
Here's the relevant headers this time...
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Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.116.70.75])
by phoenix.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17f98e-00015h-00 for [email protected]; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:09:24 +0100 Received: ([email protected]) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id <S316258AbSHOBF0>; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:05:26 -0400 Received: ([email protected]) by vger.kernel.org id <S316289AbSHOBF0>; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:05:26 -0400 Received: from [202.95.239.59] ([202.95.239.59]:14340 "EHLO philonline.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id <S316258AbSHOBFZ>; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:05:25 -0400 Received: from philonline.com (pfheiss@localhost) by philonline.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01124 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:09:20 +0800
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X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4
To: Linux Newbies <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Mailer Connections
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:09:20 +0800
From: Peter <[email protected]>
X-Mailing-List: [email protected]Thanks again Riley, apparently you are leaving in the UK.
If you mean "living" rather than "leaving", then yes.
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The top "Received:" line gives the critical evidence when it reports "helo=localhost.localdomain" as this states that your system's hostname is currently set up as localhost.localdomain as stated, and this is also confirmed both by the bottom "Received:" line and by the "From:" line. As you can see, this is wrong.
I never had to edit
/etc/sysconfig/networkin all previous versions of RH. Some kind program was doing the right thing for me. I only had to edit/etc/hosts. Now when I had to re-install RH7.1 things went wrong. When I tried to edit in/etc/hoststhe line: "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" to "127.0.0.1 localhost" I could not print any longer and on booting, section starting lpd, I would get a long complain not finding the printer.
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I now then checked in RH6.2
/etc/sysconfig/networkand it said there HOSTNEAME="Peter". I put that into RH7.1 and now after your last mail changed/etc/hoststo:127.0.0.1 localhost 202.95.238.2 philonline.com Peter 202.78.74.68 webcard.skyinet.net Pedro
Am I right in assuming that the last two lines are the statis IP's you get given when you connect to the stated ISP's ? If you are with an ISP that gives you Dynamic IP addresses (as many do), then the above could cause other problems when you are allocated other than the addresses you have quoted, so be careful.
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Printer prints now and no complains on booting about lpd. I assume my from address should be correct as well now.
As shown in the quoted headers, it is.
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I assume that you received my last mail twice.
The second copy arrived alongside this email from you.
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When I sent it the first time and had changed HOSTNAME to "Peter" from localhost.localdomain I had not rebooted as you suggested and I got the following messages in
/var/log/maillog:Aug 13 14:03:45 localhost sendmail[2687]: OAA02685:to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=esmtp, relay=vger.kernel.org. [209.116.70.75], stat=Data format error
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Aug 13 14:03:54 localhost sendmail[2687]: OAA02685:to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:17, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=esmtp, relay=phoenix.infradead.org. [195.224.96.167], stat=Sent (OK id=17eUmE-0008Fi-00)
after rebooting:
The first entry says "stat=Data format error" and thus states that that particular message was not sent. This is true of any such line that says other than "stat=Sent", and indicates that the copy addressed to the linux-newbies list (the "to=<...>" part of that entry) failed to get sent.
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Aug 13 14:42:08 philonline sendmail[1158]: OAA01156:to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:11, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=esmtp, relay=vger.kernel.org. [209.116.70.75], stat=Sent (2.7.0 nothing apparently wrong in the message.)
Aug 13 14:42:16 philonline sendmail[1158]: OAA01156:to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<[email protected]> (500/500), delay=00:00:19, xdelay=00:00:08, mailer=esmtp, relay=phoenix.infradead.org. [195.224.96.167], stat=Sent (OK id=17eVNM-0008RL-00)
This time, both copies were sent. The bit in brackets after the "stat=Sent" is the first line received from the mailhost you addressed that message to.
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You can see that after rebooting my address is correct. You replied to the first message where From: was wrong yet.
At the time, that was the only copy I had received. I have now received the second copy as well, and it shows headers similar to those quoted for this email.
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Did a programmer change something that one has to edit now
/etc/sysconfig/networka file I did not even know it existed or did I miss something when installing RH7.1?
The /etc/sysconfig/ directory contains many files relating to your system configuration, and have done so from at least RH 4.1 (when I first got involved with Linux). That particular file has been present since at least then, and RHL has used it this way all the time.
Normally, the correct values are written in there during the installation step, usually as a result of you providing the correct details to questions asked in the pre-install questionnaires that RHL installer gives you.
I would presume that for some reason, you provided the wrong value on the relevant pre-iinstall screen, but it is almost impossible to work out which screen was affected in this way.
Best wishes from Riley.
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Hi Riley,
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If you mean "living" rather than "leaving", then yes.
Darn English!
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127.0.0.1 localhost 202.95.238.2 philonline.com Peter 202.78.74.68 webcard.skyinet.net Pedro
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If you are with an ISP that gives you Dynamic IP addresses (as many do), then the above could cause other problems when you are allocated other than the addresses you have quoted, so be careful.
I will remember that, -hopefully.
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Did a programmer change something that one has to edit now
/etc/sysconfig/networka file I did not even know it existed or did I miss something when installing RH7.1?
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I would presume that for some reason, you provided the wrong value on the relevant pre-iinstall screen, but it is almost impossible to work out which screen was affected in this way.
Since I have installed RH many times of different versions, even at friends' placex it is almost routine. I have a strong suspicion that the problem is with
RH7.1. I did the installation twice and was surprised to be called localhost instead of Peter and on booting getting that long message on starting lpd.
Many thanks and best regards
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Hi Peter.
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Did a programmer change something that one has to edit now
/etc/sysconfig/networka file I did not even know it existed or did I miss something when installing RH7.1?I would presume that for some reason, you provided the wrong value on the relevant pre-iinstall screen, but it is almost impossible to work out which screen was affected in this way.
Since I have installed RH many times of different versions, even at friends' placex it is almost routine.
I've installed various versions of RHL several hundred times now, and like you, I've long since developed a routine for doing so. However, on occasion, I still make stupid mistakes when installing - I set one of my own systems up with a 168.192.* IP address rather than the 192.168.* one it should've had, and that was only yesterday !!!
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I have a strong suspicion that the problem is with RH7.1. I did the installation twice and was surprised to be called localhost instead of Peter and on booting getting that long message on starting lpd.
That is always possible. As it happens, I've only installed 7.1 once in my career, although I installed both 7.0 and 7.2 several dozen times. As a result, I probably would not have noticed a problem with 7.1 whereas problems with either 7.0 or 7.2 would've stood out like a sore thumb.
The important detail is that you now have a system that works...
Best wishes from Riley.
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