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From: rone@ennui.ops.best.com (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Various minor nits
Date: 18 Mar 1996 11:50:46 -0800
Organization: tech support droids on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Let's see, so i have 2.1-RELEASE up and running...

- Workman 1.3 and xcdplayer won't work with my Mitsumi IDE CD-ROM
drive which resides at /dev/rwcd0c.  They just can't seem to find the
device even though i clearly specify it.  cdplay, cdplayer, and xcd
work w/o problem (well, xcd seems to be buggy as hell).  I notice that
in the man page for workman, it says it plays SCSI drives...  i'm just
being optimistic here, i guess.

- Netscape 2.0 either has some memory leak problem or it takes up
progressively larger amounts of swap.  Is there a graphical web
browser out there that's reasonably compatible with Netscape
extensions and isn't bloated with ludicrous mail and news programs?
Christ, Netscape 2.0 takes up more resident memory than my X server...

- console comes by default off in /etc/ttys.  Do i have to disable
ttyv0 to turn console on?  Would this affect anything?  I did it
basically because xterm -C wasn't capturing console messages from ttyv0.

- My sendmail is acting weird...  i telnet to port 25 locally and it
just hangs there for a while.  I hit enter and it says 500 command
unrecognized, and i get a message on console similar to

Mar 14 14:23:45 ennui sendmail[19873]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg
(ennui.ops.best.com): error on output channel sending "220 ESMTP
spoken here": Invalid argument

This doesn't happen if i go to 25 from another host.  Is it my telnet?

- One line:  "Mar 16 03:30:01 ennui inetd[88]: /usr/local/sbin/identd:
exit status 0x100".  I also get lots of "Mar 16 04:12:37 ennui last
message repeated 578 times".  What did i break?


I think that's enough dumb questions for today...

thanks
rone
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