🚀 go-pugleaf

John Burke <jb@museumca.org> writes:
> 1) XEmacs needed to be (re)started each time *after* connecting to my dialup
> host, or else vm would fail to recognize the connection.  And,
> 
> 2) my mail would never delivered the mail immediately, but instead required me
> to always' su root -c "sendmail -q"'.
[-]
> The problem was that vm-spool-files was pointing to my INBOX (instead of my
> system spool file as it should be).  Man-o-man is my face red...

Does not compute, at least not for item one.

XEmacs (and Emacs, and Netscape, and a bunch of other stuff) gets
rather attached to your IP address. If your IP address changes, as per
item 1, these programs tend to have a small problem figuring out where
to attach the local end of a TCP/IP connection. If you're on a Red Hat
system and inclined to mess with source, Red Hat provide a
notification feature (netreport) whereby your program gets sent a
SIGIO when the network comes up. Note, this doesn't work for pppd in
demand mode - it's triggered on IFUP rather than IPUP.

Cheers,
Waider.
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