RE: Black hole for messages: Newbie says "Charles not that rude?"

2000-09-22 Thread Jerry Keene
Guys: I'm new to the list and like most newcomers to technical mailing lists I join with the hope of getting some good technical tips for free. Nothing wrong with this as even the most wizardly and guruish of us have probably "been there, done that"? But that said, I'm always sensitive to the

RE: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Greg Kopp
> > It's urgent.. :/ please cc me privatly, so that I dont lose it > in the list... > > Not cc'd. If you want the list to help you, you'll have to read the list. > > Charles > -- > --- > Charles Cazabon

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 22-Sep-2000, steve j. kondik wrote: > try this: > |cat /dev/null This is an unnecessary invocation of cat. Simply put a blank comment, e.g. echo "#" > .qmail as someone else suggested earlier. Ronny

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:20:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi! > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > Does any body knows out to do t

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread melo
Thanks to all that replyed...! it worked :) On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:59:20AM -0400, Greg Owen wrote: > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:20:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi! > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > > Does any body knows ou

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:20:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi! > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > > Does any body knows ou

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > Does any body knows out to do this? Yes, lots of people do. The manpage for dot-qmail tells you everything you need to know. Hint: a delivery control file containing nothing

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Peter Samuel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi! > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > > Does any body knows out to do this? In the

Re: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread steve j. kondik
try this: |cat /dev/null -steve On 09/22/00 @ 03:20PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi! > > I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > > Does a

RE: Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread Greg Owen
> I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. > > I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave > Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... > > Does any body knows out to do this? Create a .qmail file that has a comment and nothing e

Black hole for messages

2000-09-22 Thread melo
hi! I need to set up an alias that accept's messages and discard's them. I tried setting it to /dev/null but that didn't work (gave Unable_to_write_/dev/null:_invalid_argument._(#4.3.0))... Does any body knows out to do this? It's urgent.. :/ please cc me privatly, so that I dont lose it in th