On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Okay, tin works, sort of. It seems it still can't find my hostname since > > my From: lines show up as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I can manually edit that. > > It's a pain though. > > > > (The file /usr/doc/tin/INSTALL.gz cryptically recommends that I "check > > that DOMAIN_NAME & INEWS_MAIL_DOMAIN are correctly set to produce a > > correct From: headers for your site." Set how? Setting these as > > environment variables has no effect... surely these don't need to be fixed > > at compile-time?)
> Don't know, but you could edit ~/.tin/tinrc > > There you have a line: > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mail_address= Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > But your box is screwed up somhow. > > What do "hostname" and "dnsdomainname" say? Hostname spits out "drollsden", which for silly and irrelevant reasons is the name I chose for my machine. dnsdomainname produces no output at all. > /etc/hosts ? 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback 0.0.0.0 drollsden That 0.0.0.0 is admittedly suspicious, but according to the ISP-Hookup HOWTO that's the correct syntax when using dynamic IP assignment. > route ? (I get out of ideas right now :-) Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface loopnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo Which means nothing to me.:) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
