Error messages going to postmaster@...

Error messages going to postmaster@...

[Jens Knoell]

Is there a way to silently discard any error messages instead of having them
sent to postmaster@... ? At the moment I filter all the automatic irrelevant
ones on the client level, but that's less than ideal. Mailer is sendmail.
I've looked through its config file, but didn't find anything relevant...
must have missed it.

I do not want to totally disable postmaster@... (because sometimes people DO
send valid mail to postmaster@...), just want to get rid of a few thousand
totally obsolete mails sent to this role account.

Jens

Re: Error messages going to postmaster@...

[Glynn Clements]

Jens Knoell wrote:

> Is there a way to silently discard any error messages instead of having them
> sent to postmaster@... ? At the moment I filter all the automatic irrelevant
> ones on the client level, but that's less than ideal. Mailer is sendmail.
> I've looked through its config file, but didn't find anything relevant...
> must have missed it.
> 
> I do not want to totally disable postmaster@... (because sometimes people DO
> send valid mail to postmaster@...), just want to get rid of a few thousand
> totally obsolete mails sent to this role account.

Sendmail doesn't do content-based filtering; you need to use e.g.
procmail for that.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

Network cards and lilo

[Ben Clewett]

Vger,

I have a problem with two non-PNP network cards.  They have been working 
for about five years in an old Linux box no problem, by passing in lilo:

append="ether=3,0x320,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1"

Using the NE2000 driver in the kernel.

Just upgraded to Linux 2.4.20.  Recompiled and installed, and now I get 
just one network card, not both of them.  The second one is missing.

Doing an 'lsdev':

Device            DMA   IRQ  I/O Ports
------------------------------------------------
ide0                     14  01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6   f000-f007
ide1                     15  0170-0177 0376-0376   f008-f00f
NE2000                    3

I can see that the kernel has assigned the IRQ 15 I need for my second 
network card, to 'ide1'.

I would guess this is why my network card is not showing.

As these are ancient cards which can not easily be reprogrammed, is 
there any way to tell the kernel to honour my network cards, and not use 
IRQ=15 for the IDE?

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Ben Clewett.

Re: Network cards and lilo

[terry white]

on "5-2-2003" "Ben Clewett" writ:

: As these are ancient cards which can not easily be reprogrammed, is
: there any way to tell the kernel to honour my network cards, and not use
: IRQ=15 for the IDE?

... liking to think i'm a 'forward looking old fart', i'd reprogram the
card to avoid the 'standard' irq to ide mapping.  but that's just me.

    failing that, i'd disable the secondary ide channel in the bios ...


-- 
... i'm a man, but i can change,
    if i have to , i guess ...

Re: Network cards and lilo

[Ben Clewett]

terry white wrote:
> on "5-2-2003" "Ben Clewett" writ:
> 
> : As these are ancient cards which can not easily be reprogrammed, is
> : there any way to tell the kernel to honour my network cards, and not use
> : IRQ=15 for the IDE?
> 
> ... liking to think i'm a 'forward looking old fart', i'd reprogram the
> card to avoid the 'standard' irq to ide mapping.  but that's just me.
> 
>     failing that, i'd disable the secondary ide channel in the bios ...
> 
> 

Thanks!  Yes this might be the way I go.

Odd that it worked perfectly in my five year old kernel.  Yet the latest 
does not work...

Ben