[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: Discuss digest, Vol 1 #1105 - 3 msgs

[Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)]

The problem is that i can run X through the root account but not as a normal
user.Any clues for this one ?
 

Jay Wrote :
Did you su to another user in that terminal before you did this? That's
one way to get that error.


Jay Cox

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Today's Topics:

   1. IPCop / Smoothwall and SWBell PPPoE (Douglas King)
   2. Re: /etc/hosts.allow and deny (Kelledin)
   3. Re: console ownership (Jay Cox)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:08:24 -0600
To: Discuss at ntlug.org
From: Douglas King <daking at dak1.net>
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] IPCop / Smoothwall and SWBell PPPoE
Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org

Does anyone know if the IP Cop firewall will work with the SWBell DSL hooks 
ups?  It is a PPPoE connection, and piddled around with it last night to no 
avail.  If you have it running, could you please send me the setup 
info?  Email is daking at dak1.net.

Thanks.



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Message: 2
From: Kelledin <kelledin at users.sourceforge.net>
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] /etc/hosts.allow and deny
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 10:32:56 -0600
Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org

On Thursday 21 February 2002 06:41 pm, you wrote:
>  It has nothing to do with hosts.deny/hosts.allow.  Those two files only
> affect outside programs contacting your machine for the services listed in
> /etc/inetd.conf (or in xinetd.d for newer machines).
>
>   Try looking through /var/log/messages, and /var/log/maillog.
>
>   It may be fetchmail delivers the mail into the sendmail queue, and you
> have to run sendmail to finish the delivery....?
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Geremy L. Hamlett wrote:
> > I am trying to config my /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow files to
> > allow fetchmail to pick up my mail from an SMTP server and deliver it to
> > my machine.  With Out anything in my hosts.allow file fetchmail picks up
> > my mail, but when I go to check it, its not there(deleted).  I have
tried
> > to putt the smtp server in the hosts.allow file but I get the same
thing.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > --
> > Geremy L. Hamlett
> > http://omega.uta.edu/~glh6688
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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> _______________________________________________
> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

fetchmail and sendmail disregard /etc/hosts.*.  inetd/xinetd services obey 
those files; so do certain applications built against libwrap.  An 
alternative MTA like postfix might obey /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}, but I've 
never tried one.

For fetchmail to do its job, you have to have some sort of SMTP/UUCP server 
(like sendmail or postfix) configured and running in daemon mode on the
local 
machine.  If that SMTP/UUCP server is using procmail, you need to inspect 
~/.procmailrc to figure out where your mail is going ("man procmailrc" for 
more info on that).  procmail could quite possibly be sticking your mail in 
some place where the standard mail command doesn't look by default.

You can get a log of fetchmail by running it in this fashion:

fetchmail -v -v -L <logfile>

In this manner, it will still run as a daemon.  You can inspect the comments

of this file for more information on what's going wrong.

_______________________________________________
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one hears it, does it still
cost 
four figures to fix?"


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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:46:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Jay Cox <sqrtofone at yahoo.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] console ownership
Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:

> what do you mean by console ownership.
> i am having this error
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> Please throw some light on this.
>
> Thanks
> Harshal.


Did you su to another user in that terminal before you did this? That's
one way to get that error.


Jay Cox







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