Re: Part II of the Random Comments epic miniseries

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Thanks all, for your many replies.  I got part of this whole mail 
thing
> finally figured out (I don't get mysterious greetings anymore) and I 
now
> understand far more about e-mail in linux.  Thanks again!  However, I
> have a new problem.  I've got mail working great in root, but
> unfortunately my other user, Josh, just won't cooperate.  It lets me
> send mail fine and dandy, but refuses to allow mail to be sent to it.  
I
> know what the problem is: there's no /var/spool/mail/Josh file, but I
> don't know how to fix the problem.  It's just not being created.  What
> shall I do?  And how do I send mail to the different lists?  I really
> should be sending this to novice.

The system will automatically create the file.  If it isn't bieng 
created, then the mail isn't processing correctly.  Have you looked in 
/var/log/maillog to see what is happening to the message? Running 
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -d9 -t soandso@whereever.who" and simply entering 
a "." <Enter> as the e-mail message can show lots of cool stuff.

> -Josh
> Oh, btw, do any of you all out there know anything about networking in
> that other O$?  My school is interested in having me sysadmin the 
school
> newspaper's network, and I really don't know a whole lot about it.
> Please e-mail me privately (rambozo@mailandnews.com) if you can help
> bestow this knowledge upon me. Thanks again.

See the Samba presentation on the Klug past presentations page 
(assuming you want the Linux box to be the server).  Things like 
e-mail, etc..., are pretty much platform nuetral.