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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:28:27 -0600 (CST)
To: "Booo Bo" <bradley_watts@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Xterm
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Booo Bo <bradley_watts@hotmail.com> types:
> Hi there,
> When launching multiple xterm sessions, if I recieve error messages on one 
> Xterm session (i.e. sending mail yeilds a response, ["root... Recipient 
> names must be specified Nov 28 21:01:26 30140362600 sendmail[833]: 
> gethostbyaddr(24.68.123.209) failed: 2"], they appear on all other Xterm 
> sessions. This is anoying, as when I am writing code it over writes text in 
> all my other Xterm sessions. Is there anything I can do to fix? I am running 
> Freebsd 4.0

It looks like you're running as root. Create a user for yourself, and
log in as that user, then su to root.

	<mike
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