Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:28:39 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Elm and DES password problems Message-ID: <20000621132839.E214@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200006212017.e5LKHRt61320@iaces.com>; from proot@iaces.com on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:17:27PM -0500 References: <20000621130441.B214@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <200006212017.e5LKHRt61320@iaces.com>
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:17:27PM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 09:17:58AM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > Over the weekend I finally upgraded from 2.2.8-Stable to > > > 3.4-Release (I'll get to Stable soon). But I'm have a couple > > > of annoying problems. > > > > > > 1) I recompiled elm from Ports (version 2.4 ME+ PL61). And it > > > can't delete any messages from any mailbox! I hit delete and > > > it marks it 'D', but when I quit (q) or re-sync ($), it resets > > > everything and all the messages are back. So I compiled up again, > > > going through the Configure manually, and it does the same thing. > > > > > > Next, I compiled up mutt and that works fine. > > > > > > Any ideas. > > > > Is your mailbox big? I've had problems when elm runs out of scratch > > space in /tmp. Are any error messages reported by elm? What is its > > exit value? Perms on your mailspool? > > Nope, the mailbox is empty. > /tmp has plenty of space: > mfs:37 87199 36 80188 0% /tmp > > And /var/mail is: > drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Jun 21 14:47 . > > And it's not just my main mailbox, it's also $HOME/Mail/* > > I just recompiled 2.5p2 from scratch. No joy. I'm using flock locking > not dot or fcntl. elm also can be fooled by NFS mounts, but that does not look like it is the problem. You got me here. > > > 2) I have DES passwords in /etc/master.passwd, and pop3 doesn't work > > > and tac_plus doesn't work. I have the DES package installed and scrypto > > > too. I know this is a simple one, but it's got me confused. > > > > But you can log in and stuff? Let's just see, > > > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt.* [snip correct links to use DES] Are you sure it is a passwd issue? What happens when you log into the POP3 server manually, $ telnet popserver 110 <Server greeting> USER someuser <Server response> PASS somepasswd What exactly do you see? > > > 3) I only quickly tried to compile amanda 2.4.1p1 with the config I made > > > when I compiled it for 2.2.8 and that failed. I haven't tried again, > > > but has anybody got words of wisdom for this? > > > > Some error messages? > > I got this one going. I just hadn't had time to look at it. I'm in the > process of figuring out chg-chio. Oh, man. I had some fun with that. I changed jobs before I got around to getting that all to work. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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