> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:10 +0100 (BST)
> From: David Croft <david@infotrek.demon.co.uk>
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, David Croft wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas? The two things I can think of would be to either
> > remove the /var/spool/lpd/ files, or to stop rc from loading lpd.
> > Unfortunately I cannot do either due to the partition being initially
> > read-only.
> 
> -thumps head against the large X recently painted on the wall
> 
> Turned the printer off, rebooted, and it let me in.
> But it would be nice to know why lpd isn't working...
> 
> Today (yesterday) has been great fun! I compiled and installed pine,
> procmail, ispell (which pine doesn't like) and tinyfugue. I've even got
> sendmail in my netstart file (I hope it doesn't fall over!) so it's
> goodbye to my PC and PCElm! Farewell, Bill; I'd love to say it's been nice
> playing with you, but my father always told me never to lie...

I like this statement a lot.

> As I don't want mail being bounced waiting to be sent out (sendmail has a
> default of 4 days attempting to deliver a message) my sendmail flags are
> "-bd -oT1000". Does this look like the right syntax? (1000 as in 1000
> days; the docs don't specify what units this should be in). It says I can
> put this in sendmail.cf but refers me to the `Sendmail Installation and
> Operation Guide', which I don't seem to have.

What you need is this book:
http://www.ora.com/catalog/sendmail/noframes.html

O'Reilly:
sendmail:
By Bryan Costales, with Eric Allman & Neil Rickert
1st Edition November 1993
1-56592-056-2, Order Number: 0562
830 pages, $32.95

> ... beginning to wish I'd allocated more disc space to RiscBSD!

How much do you have?

Kjetil B.