1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok what is BSD exactly? I know its a type of open source but what is it exactly? (1 Reply)

2. Programming

Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am doing ls -la in the out put , first line is as total 41621 What is this total? (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am new to Unix , I have entered 'cd w' in command prompt and pressed tab key , A tab space is generated instead of listing the folders or files that starts with 'W' . What should i do to get it working:confused: Thanks, Deepak (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am afraid that I goofed up my mailing system. I have an Ubuntu 9.10 system $ uname -smor Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux I am wanting to receive cron job mails. I noticed that cron jobs were trying to send mail to sendmail. I had installed ssmtp so I could send mail... (1 Reply)

6. AIX

Hi, I am facing a (for me and coworkers) strange behaviour. When I stop sendmail on a plain AIX 5.3 testing box (there is definetly no sendmail process left running anymore), I am still able to send mails to remote addresses via the mail command. I tried that on another box which is not a... (6 Replies)

7. Ubuntu

Hi, What is the default MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) in Ubuntu 10.04? Is it Postfix or exim4? I am not trying to do anything fancy, I would just like to be able send an email from a bash shell script running on my PC to my gmail account. Any advice on how to configure the default MTA (whatever... (4 Replies)

8. What is on Your Mind?

Which among the following is most popular choice as a mail server - 1)Sendmail 2)Postfix 3)Qmail Which is the industry preferred one? (2 Replies)

9. Ubuntu

Hi I would like to ask some information regarding the installed package name Exim Mail Transport Agent installed in my ubuntu desktop. what caused this package installed in my ubuntu desktop system. i understand that this package is mail server package used to send and receive email and my... (1 Reply)

10. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)