03.28.2005 16:29
Mail!
Yea! I have mail! I have for the first time been receiving mail from Charlie Root.
When I first set-up the computer, I was getting mail, but it was always with the address return error for no known address. So, I played around with some of the configuration files and lost mail output all together for some time. So, I finally added an MX record for the machine at dyndns.org and listed several of their nameservers in the new /etc/resolv.conf file. Still nothing. I had inserted search xochitlfilms.org at the beginning of the same file, based upon recommendations in the AbsoluteOpenBSD book. So, after some helpful hints on the newbies list, I realized that maybe I needed to remove this first line from the file, put the airport router down as a nameserver and list a universal nameserver, one that wasn't just for dyndns.org. Well, this worked!
If I could just get the mod_perl to work correctly I'd be happy.
When I first set-up the computer, I was getting mail, but it was always with the address return error for no known address. So, I played around with some of the configuration files and lost mail output all together for some time. So, I finally added an MX record for the machine at dyndns.org and listed several of their nameservers in the new /etc/resolv.conf file. Still nothing. I had inserted search xochitlfilms.org at the beginning of the same file, based upon recommendations in the AbsoluteOpenBSD book. So, after some helpful hints on the newbies list, I realized that maybe I needed to remove this first line from the file, put the airport router down as a nameserver and list a universal nameserver, one that wasn't just for dyndns.org. Well, this worked!
If I could just get the mod_perl to work correctly I'd be happy.
03.21.2005 13:19
Mail delivery issue
Yuck! I have been unsuccessful thus far in my foray into computing on this machine! I just haven't had the time necessary to get everything running as it should. This started with me always receiving mail for root of the machine at my mac address and always resolving to an unknown address. This annoyed me, so I tried to create an address for the box. I set-up /etc/resolv.conf as the AbsoluteOpenBSD book suggested. Then nothing worked. No internet connection, no mail for me, etc. So, I read the man pages and it said that /etc/resolv.conf was not needed on a properly set-up box. So I deleted it. Still nothing. 
To the newbies list I went and the consensus was that you do need this file. So I set it up again. Still nothing. Then I realized that I needed to add the airport address to the /etc/hosts file. This at least gave me an internet connection. Weeks later though, I haven't had much time to look into this further until today. The daily and weekly scripts are still being run, but I am not getting any mail. Sending mail from the command line doesn't work either, I get an error that it cannot resolve the host of the external mail address. I thought then that I needed to add another nameserver to my /etc/resolv.conf file. I did this, but still nothing. Oh well. Much more work to go, plus still can't get the mod_perl and mod_cgi to work, but maybe I can try more today.
To the newbies list I went and the consensus was that you do need this file. So I set it up again. Still nothing. Then I realized that I needed to add the airport address to the /etc/hosts file. This at least gave me an internet connection. Weeks later though, I haven't had much time to look into this further until today. The daily and weekly scripts are still being run, but I am not getting any mail. Sending mail from the command line doesn't work either, I get an error that it cannot resolve the host of the external mail address. I thought then that I needed to add another nameserver to my /etc/resolv.conf file. I did this, but still nothing. Oh well. Much more work to go, plus still can't get the mod_perl and mod_cgi to work, but maybe I can try more today.