From: jwaters@nmsu.edu (Joe Waters) Subject: Questions about lmail, Taylor UUCP, and selection-1.0 Date: 2 May 1992 03:14:36 GMT
Okay, I've got the Taylor UUCP distribution (excellent job, BTW) in
both binary form and source from tsx-11. I compiled UUCP and then
compiled the smail3 that's in that same library (uucp-1.03-tar.Z or
something similar) with a little modification to the smail3 makefile
to make it compile happily. No problem. Smail appears to work fine,
only I can't find lmail for it.
1) Does anybody know where I can get lmail, either in binary or source
form for a Linux-0.95c+ kernel?
I figured that even without lmail, I should still be able to use UUCP
to send mail to a neighboring system. My UUCP setup appeared to be
working correctly (I could uucico -Sname to the machine I wanted to
connect to, and then with nothing to do uucico would talk to the
remote machine for a little while and terminate normally) until I
tried to send mail. I used smail to send mail to the remote machine,
and the jobs went into the /usr/spool/uucp/remote queue just fine, but
when I uucico -Sremote, it connects, talks to the other machine, and
goes through the handshake stuff, and then at the very end of the
handshake, it gets a segmentation error when it first tries to read
the stuff in the /usr/spool/uucp/remote directory and then it crashes.
Any ideas what I've got set up wrong here? I'm assuming it's a
software problem in my configuration because other people are running
uucp, but I'm not sure - I tried it with the same results with both
my compiled uuxqt and uucico and the uuxqt and uucico in the binaries
off of tsx-11 with the same segmentation error. Any ideas?
3) I got the selection stuff patched into my kernel no problem, and
got selection-1.0 to compile no problem. However, when I run it, it
gives me bizarre, erratic results in response to mouse movement - the
mouse cursor will appear, then move seemingly randomly about the
screen, selecting random bits of text and pasting them wherever it
feels like it, but only when I move the mouse... I have a Logitech
series-9 3-button mouse; my hunch is that the selection driver eats it
when dealing with this type of mouse. Has any body patched it for the
Logitech series-9?
Thanks for any info, help, or pointers on where to look for stuff...
Joe