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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:02:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        datcos@netvision.net.il (Igal Rubinstein)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xwindows & finger
Message-ID:  <199606301103.NAA25757@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <31D6FAE5.1669@netvision.net.il> from Igal Rubinstein at "Jun 30, 96 03:08:37 pm"

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> Hi !
> Recently, I moved to FreeBSD, and as usual, a newbie must ask something.
> So my questions are:
> My domain name is rilv.net.il, when I try: finger root, it works ok and 
> I see info about myself, however, when I try: finger root@rilv.net.il
> I receive:
> [rilv.net.il]
> and thats all ... Then, I opened for myself additional account, called
> igal, and I decided to send mail from root to igal.
> I wrote: 
> mail igal
> subject: Dont worry be happy (for example)
> ggdagdg
> ggdsagdsgsd
> gdgsdagasgs
> ghsdahhg
> And it worked. But when I did
> mail igal@rilv.net.il and sent the same message, it did not worked,
> and I even received message about DELIVERY ERROR any ideas ?
> My second question is very simple: (but not for me)
> I use Xwindows and color_xterm, all options at color_xterm work
> ok except one -bw or -w (it is the same). When I try to change width
> nothing happens. So, if you can help me please reply.
> My address is: datcos@netvision.net.il
> 

Sound like you haven't set up your domain lookup correctly. What's
in /etc/resolv.conf and in /etc/host.conf?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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