FC1 mouse freezing

[John McBride]

my mouse is freezing a lot in FC1/mozilla (my most frequently used app 
at home) might do it in other apps too, will have to watch for it, the 
only way to get cursor movement back is to ctrl-alt-fn to a virtual 
terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 back to x.

this seems to have started after my last yum update.

just curious if it is a coincidence (h/w failure on my box) or if this 
is happening to anyone else.

thanks,
John

[Jerry Wilborn]

I have a similar situation, but in conjunction with my Belkin
switchbox.  Are you using a switchbox between machines?

If so, then this is a flaw in how X initializes (or fails to do so)
when you switch between hosts.

iptables problem

[Michael Sullivan]

I have a problem.  My server PC is down (taking it to the shop on Monday
when they open) and I wanted to transfer the sendmail settings from the
server PC to my client PC.  The server was running RH9 and the client
runs Fedora Core 1.  Anyway, I've altered my /etc/sysconfig/iptables to
allow port 25 and 110 access (SMTP and POP3) and restarted iptables, but
it won't allow access to port 110.  The Fedora Core iptables file was a
little different from RH9, but I think I've got it right.  Here are the
relevant lines from /etc/sysconfig/iptables:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 25 -j
ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 110 -j
ACCEPT

I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 25, but not to 110.  When I try to telnet to
127.0.0.1 110 it says:

[root@baby mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

When I telnet to port 25 I get this:

[root@baby mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

telnet> quit
Connection closed.
[root@baby mail]#

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  Please help!  Until I get this fixed
I have to rely on the central.coxmail.com server, which is hardly
reliable at best....

-Michael Sullivan-

iptables problem

[Michael Young]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:07, Michael Sullivan wrote:
<snip>
> I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 25, but not to 110.  When I try to telnet to
> 127.0.0.1 110 it says:
>
> [root@baby mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

<snip>
> I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  Please help!  Until I get this fixed
> I have to rely on the central.coxmail.com server, which is hardly
> reliable at best....
>
> -Michael Sullivan-
>
> May be a silly question, but, have you installed and enabled the POP daemon?

michael

iptables problem

[Michael Young]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:18, Michael Young wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:07, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 25, but not to 110.  When I try to telnet to
> > 127.0.0.1 110 it says:
> > 
> > [root@baby mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  Please help!  Until I get this fixed
> > I have to rely on the central.coxmail.com server, which is hardly
> > reliable at best....
> > 
> > -Michael Sullivan- 
> >

Hmm... need sleep. Need to watch my formatting. Sorry.
May be a silly question, but, have you installed and enabled the POP daemon?

michael

iptables problem

[Jerry Wilborn]

You can see if there's something listening on the port by running: netstat -atpn

Mike's question is a good one though =)

[Javier Perez]

I had the same situation but with a Linksys switchbox.
It was solved by upgrading to FC2

Javier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Jerry Wilborn
> Sent: Viernes, 11 de Junio de 2004 10:52 p.m.
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: FC1 mouse freezing
>
> I have a similar situation, but in conjunction with my Belkin
> switchbox.  Are you using a switchbox between machines?
>
> If so, then this is a flaw in how X initializes (or fails to do so)
> when you switch between hosts.
>
> -- 
> Jerry Wilborn
> jerrywilborn at gmail com
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:54:40 -0700, John McBride 
>  wrote:
> > my mouse is freezing a lot in FC1/mozilla (my most frequently used app
> > at home) might do it in other apps too, will have to watch for it, the
> > only way to get cursor movement back is to ctrl-alt-fn to a virtual
> > terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 back to x.
> >
> > this seems to have started after my last yum update.
> >
> > just curious if it is a coincidence (h/w failure on my box) or if this
> > is happening to anyone else.
> >
> > thanks,
> > John
> >
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[John McBride]

Jerry Wilborn wrote:
> I have a similar situation, but in conjunction with my Belkin
> switchbox.  Are you using a switchbox between machines?

No unfortunately this is directly connected on my home machine.

Everything was fine until sometime last week. I'm going to open the box 
this afternoon and see if the fan is still spinning on the video card 
and whatnot.

I don't lose the keyboard, just the mouse, and switching to a vt and 
then back to X unfreezes the mouse.

Thanks,
John

iptables problem

[Michael Sullivan]

That was it.  I forgot to update the /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 file on my
client PC.  Thanks for your help.

-Michael Sullivan-

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 23:18, Michael Young wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:07, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 25, but not to 110.  When I try to telnet to
> > 127.0.0.1 110 it says:
> > 
> > [root@baby mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  Please help!  Until I get this fixed
> > I have to rely on the central.coxmail.com server, which is hardly
> > reliable at best....
> > 
> > -Michael Sullivan- 
> > 
> > May be a silly question, but, have you installed and enabled the POP daemon?
>
> michael

sendmail problem

[Michael Sullivan]

OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
domain) the mail gets returned with this error:

Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.

Recipient: 
    Reason:    5.7.1 ... Relaying denied.
Proper authentication required.

Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
this error:

Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
Bad authentication response from server.

Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]

I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. 
Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
/etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?

-Michael Sullivan-

sendmail problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27:

First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails
while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor
window.

You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within
"FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem".
> OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
> Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
>
> Proper authentication required.

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html
> Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> this error:
>
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> Bad authentication response from server.
>
> Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]

Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server
side and which client  do you use?
> I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. 
> Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
>
> -Michael Sullivan-

You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule.
Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find
the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log
level.

As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the
problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have
saslauthd running?

Alexander

sendmail problem

[Don Dupy]

make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file.
mine looks like so.......

# Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
# of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
# The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
# package.
#
# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain           RELAY
localhost                       RELAY
127.0.0.1                       RELAY
192.168.0                       RELAY   <client IP addresses>

then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: [e-mail]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
> Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
>
> Proper authentication required.
>
> Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> this error:
>
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> Bad authentication response from server.
>
> Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
>
> I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
>
> -Michael Sullivan-
>
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sendmail problem

[Don Dupy]

one more thing to check

make sure your /etc/passwd file didn't get screwed up

you can change your password for your account by doing:

[root@rokit mail]# passwd user

this will change your password and that will take that out of the mix.

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: [e-mail]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27:
>
> First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails
> while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor
> window.
>
> You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within
> "FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem".
> > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> >
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> > Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> > Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
> >
> > Proper authentication required.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html
> > Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> > this error:
> >
> > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > Bad authentication response from server.
> >
> > Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
>
> Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server
> side and which client  do you use?
> > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > -Michael Sullivan-
>
> You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule.
> Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find
> the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log
> level.
>
> As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the
> problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have
> saslauthd running?
>
> Alexander
>
> --
> Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13
> Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.427
> Serendipity 18:38:16 up 14:20, 8 users, 0.02, 0.27, 0.40

sendmail problem

[Don Dupy]

I told you wrong on the first email.........
you don't have to do the m4 command unless you change the sendmail.mc file

sorry, my goof.

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: [e-mail]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
> Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
>
> Proper authentication required.
>
> Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> this error:
>
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> Bad authentication response from server.
>
> Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
>
> I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
>
> -Michael Sullivan-
>
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> [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

sendmail problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Don Dupy um 19:15:
> make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file.
> mine looks like so.......

Only needed and useful if you do not want to enforce authentification
but bypass it.
> then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

If changes are only made within the access map file then rebuilding of
the sendmail.cf is pointless. It even won't rebuild as there are no
changes in the sendmail.mc.
> then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

Editing map files does not require a restart of the Sendmail daemon!
Therefor they are hashed. On Fedora a Sendmail service restart too makes
a manual call of m4 unnecessary.
> Don Dupy

Alexander

sendmail problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:15, Don Dupy wrote:
> make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file.
> mine looks like so.......
>
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> localhost.localdomain           RELAY
> localhost                       RELAY
> 127.0.0.1                       RELAY
> 192.168.0                       RELAY   <client IP addresses>
>
> then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>
> then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> >
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> > Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> > Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
> >
> > Proper authentication required.
> >
> > Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> > this error:
> >
> > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > Bad authentication response from server.
> >
> > Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
> >
> > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?

----
I hate to reply to top posted replies...

I don't think authentication works out of the box on sendmail.

I think you can remove the comments (dnl at the start) of the following
lines from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

or you can tell your mail clients not to use authentication (used to be
the default configuration for mail clients but I have noticed recent
versions of Netscape default to on)

It is up to you to determine which mechanisms are appropriate and how to
configure them - there is a lot of documentation on sendmail -
especially authentication methods.

if you edit sendmail.mc file, all you should need to do after that is to
issue
make -C /etc/mail
to get the changes implemented

Craig

sendmail problem

[Don Dupy]

I stand corrected, I was wrong
Guess I'm not much help if I give out bad advice

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: [e-mail]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:15, Don Dupy wrote:
> > make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file.
> > mine looks like so.......
> >
> > # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
> > # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> > # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> > # package.
> > #
> > # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> > localhost.localdomain           RELAY
> > localhost                       RELAY
> > 127.0.0.1                       RELAY
> > 192.168.0                       RELAY   <client IP addresses>
> >
> > then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> >
> > then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
> > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > > address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> > > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> > >
> > > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > > each recipient was rejected.
> > > Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> > > Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
> > >
> > > Proper authentication required.
> > >
> > > Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> > > this error:
> > >
> > > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > > Bad authentication response from server.
> > >
> > > Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
> > >
> > > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> > > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
>
> I hate to reply to top posted replies...
>
> I don't think authentication works out of the box on sendmail.
>
> I think you can remove the comments (dnl at the start) of the following
> lines from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
>
> or you can tell your mail clients not to use authentication (used to be
> the default configuration for mail clients but I have noticed recent
> versions of Netscape default to on)
>
> It is up to you to determine which mechanisms are appropriate and how to
> configure them - there is a lot of documentation on sendmail -
> especially authentication methods.
>
> if you edit sendmail.mc file, all you should need to do after that is to
> issue
> make -C /etc/mail
> to get the changes implemented
>
> Craig
>
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sendmail problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Craig White um 19:32:
> I hate to reply to top posted replies...

Me too, especially when a thread gets longer.
> I don't think authentication works out of the box on sendmail.

It works out of the box, be ensured. If you use unencrypted mechs (LOGIN
or PLAIN) and you start the saslauthd.
> if you edit sendmail.mc file, all you should need to do after that is to
> issue
> make -C /etc/mail
> to get the changes implemented

As a Sendmail daemon restart is needed you can leave that step out, as
the init script will do it for you.
> Craig

Alexander

sendmail problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:34, Don Dupy wrote:
> I stand corrected, I was wrong
> Guess I'm not much help if I give out bad advice

---
it wasn't such bad advice - it missed the question which was about
authentication. Had it not been asking about authentication, your advice
about /etc/mail/access is correct.

The advice shows that you've been using sendmail a long time and there
have been some shortcuts made, concerning re-hashing and m4 generating a
new cf file, but the commands such as:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf still work (though as
you undoubtedly noticed, sendmail.cf has moved to the /etc/mail
subdirectory.

;-)

Craig

sendmail problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:44, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Craig White um 19:32:
> > I hate to reply to top posted replies...
>
> Me too, especially when a thread gets longer.
> > I don't think authentication works out of the box on sendmail.
>
> It works out of the box, be ensured. If you use unencrypted mechs (LOGIN
> or PLAIN) and you start the saslauthd.

----
Hmmm...thanks for the fish - I have to check this out.

Craig

sendmail problem

[Michael Sullivan]

First of all, I'm using evolution as the client.  I have no idea what
you mean by mechs, but I guess I'm using whatever the Fedora Core
default is, unless that is altered in /etc/mail, and I have no idea what
'saslauthd' is.  I checked the dates on the files in /etc/mail against
the dates in my backed up /etc/mail from the server PC and found that I
had not extracted them over correctly.  I have now fixed that.  Now when
I try to send mail from outside my domain to inside it, I get the mail
returned from my domain's postmaster saying

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

    (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 5.3.5 espersunited.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
problem?)
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

Please don't flame me.  I'm under a lot of stress.  This network is all
I have and it's not working right at the moment.  I'll try to delete all
traces of replying to other threads in the future, but I can't use
evolution's address book because the address-book backend crashes every
time I try to use it (a topic to be saved for a different thread) and I
can't be expected to remember email addresses for the twenty or so
mailing lists I'm subscribed to...

-Michael Sullivan-

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 11:44, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27:
>
> First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails
> while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor
> window.
>
> You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within
> "FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem".
> > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> >
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> > Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> > Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
> >
> > Proper authentication required.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html
> > Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> > this error:
> >
> > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > Bad authentication response from server.
> >
> > Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
>
> Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server
> side and which client  do you use?
> > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. 
> > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > -Michael Sullivan-
>
> You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule.
> Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find
> the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log
> level.
>
> As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the
> problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have
> saslauthd running?
>
> Alexander

sendmail problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 20:02:
> First of all, I'm using evolution as the client.  I have no idea what
> you mean by mechs, but I guess I'm using whatever the Fedora Core
> default is, unless that is altered in /etc/mail, and I have no idea what
> 'saslauthd' is.  I checked the dates on the files in /etc/mail against
> the dates in my backed up /etc/mail from the server PC and found that I
> had not extracted them over correctly.  I have now fixed that.  Now when
> I try to send mail from outside my domain to inside it, I get the mail
> returned from my domain's postmaster saying

Do not take it offending, but you should only run a mail server public
reachable after you learned the basics.

If you would have a look at the original sendmail.mc file shipping with
FC1 you would see:

dnl # PLAIN is the preferred plaintext authentication method and used by
dnl # Mozilla Mail and Evolution, though Outlook Express and other MUAs
do
dnl # use LOGIN. Other mechanisms should be used if the connection is
not
dnl # guaranteed secure.
dnl #
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

MECH means the mechanism SASL uses to handle authentification data
(username and password). And the saslauthd is the SASL authentification
daemon, run by the init script /etc/init.d/saslauthd.
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>
>     (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 espersunited.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
> problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

You domain name is not listed in the /etc/mail/local-host-names files.

Alexander

sendmail problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 11:02, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> First of all, I'm using evolution as the client.  I have no idea what
> you mean by mechs, but I guess I'm using whatever the Fedora Core
> default is, unless that is altered in /etc/mail, and I have no idea what
> 'saslauthd' is.  I checked the dates on the files in /etc/mail against
> the dates in my backed up /etc/mail from the server PC and found that I
> had not extracted them over correctly.  I have now fixed that.  Now when
> I try to send mail from outside my domain to inside it, I get the mail
> returned from my domain's postmaster saying
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>
>     (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 espersunited.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
> problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> Please don't flame me.  I'm under a lot of stress.  This network is all
> I have and it's not working right at the moment.  I'll try to delete all
> traces of replying to other threads in the future, but I can't use
> evolution's address book because the address-book backend crashes every
> time I try to use it (a topic to be saved for a different thread) and I
> can't be expected to remember email addresses for the twenty or so
> mailing lists I'm subscribed to...

----
- we all operate under time pressure constraints. Learn to deal with
them gracefully please, they don't excuse failures to protocol,
rudeness, etc.
- In the header of every email is the sender and the 'replyto' - click
the reply to in Evolution or any other mail client will create a new
empty email (no address book required) and no hijacked thread. A system
administrator should know this.
- sendmail is struggling because your dns loops.

from outside world...
# host espersunited.com
espersunited.com has address 68.15.193.18
# host -t MX espersunited.com
espersunited.com mail is handled by 10 espersunited.com.

Only you can check inside of network.
My guess is that you need to configure that machine to accept mail for
espersunited.com

/etc/mail/local-host-names #should contain things like...
localhost
localhost.localdomain
espersunited.com
www.espersunited.com
#etc.

make -C /etc/mail

and don't forget...
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-email-mta.html

Craig

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:03:08AM -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
> I had the same situation but with a Linksys switchbox.
> It was solved by upgrading to FC2
> > [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Jerry Wilborn
> > Sent: Viernes, 11 de Junio de 2004 10:52 p.m.
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: FC1 mouse freezing
> >
> > I have a similar situation, but in conjunction with my Belkin
> > switchbox.  Are you using a switchbox between machines?
> >
> > If so, then this is a flaw in how X initializes (or fails to do so)
> > when you switch between hosts.

....
> >  wrote:
> > > my mouse is freezing a lot in FC1/mozilla (my most frequently used app
> > > at home) might do it in other apps too, will have to watch for it, the
> > > only way to get cursor movement back is to ctrl-alt-fn to a virtual
> > > terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 back to x.

On the general issues of switch boxes -- how are folks
switching.

Since the serial protocol of mice and keyboards does not support
multiple contexts all a magic box can really do is multiplex the
inputs.    If you switch in the middle of a character or in the 
middle of a multi-character control sequence there is no way that
a magic box (without complex logic) can keep all things in order.
Sort of like mixing top and bottom posting does here ;-)

I have an old Belkin switch box and have no trouble.  I do however
only use the buttons on the box to switch and not the function escape
sequences.  There are also issues where a keyboard can be programmed
to send special sequences it could expect to retain these so machine A
with special sequences borks when these sequences are sent to machine
B or some combination of the above.

So the question is how do people use their switch.

It makes sense that some defensive programming could be included
in the byte stream handler in X that could tidy things up when
there is a protocol error.

I also use remote X display via ssh a lot ;-)

FC1 mouse freezing [SOLVED]

[John McBride]

John McBride wrote:
> my mouse is freezing a lot in FC1/mozilla (my most frequently used app 
> at home) might do it in other apps too, will have to watch for it, the 
> only way to get cursor movement back is to ctrl-alt-fn to a virtual 
> terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 back to x.
>
> this seems to have started after my last yum update.

Replying to my own post. My PS-2 mouse was dying a slow death. As it's 
life waned, the symptoms on my box grew even more bizarre.

Cube (the free doom engine game) would drop mouse/lock every 4-5 seconds 
then go black. 2D apps would run for hours at a time, but eventually lock.

The mouse would work "better" in my other (normally headless) machine, 
but still freeze X on the rare occasion.

Sometimes the keyboard would stop responding when the machine was booted 
and Fedora tried to "Start Console Mouse Services" (gpm). Occasionally 
Kudzu would sometimes find/not find the mouse (these symptoms were more 
recent and really got me suspicious of the mouse).

Yesterday it died completely while I devising ways to test it :-) A new 
mouse has fixed everything...several hours of gameplay now with zero errors.

---
John