UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Yes, that's right. Probably It's not what he wants but it's just a possible alternative. From my point of view, your solution is more close to what he wants, of course

Hi all,
Thanks for your suggestions . I learnt a few concepts from your responses.
I didnt check this forum for a while, as I had finally resorted to generate my own directory listing using CGI (as PHP is not installed in our server). I am halfway through and I hope that would be the only solution cuz I do not have (any idea and) enough privileges to modify the default interpretation of index.htm. I am placing the index.cgi in home dir. It will display the my custom content in a frame and the directory listing in other.
I am planning to incorporate all (ascending or descending order sorting of all columns on clicking the heading column!) features in the CGI I am developing.
BTW, I am not going to publish my home page in internet, cuz the IPs in my company are local IPs and it can be accessed only on intranet. So the visitors will by my own collegues.

Bonus Note:
The reason why I wanted to do this thing was that I was interested in providing a few intranet/internet links which would be useful for my fellow collegues. But at the same time it is impossible for me to constantly update my index.htm to add links corresponding to the current project I am doing (some teams need it from the work perspective!). But I decided to do it, inspite of my friends' comment that its a waste of time!

Thanks again for your involvement in teaching me the working

(PS: there was no http server running in my network, the telnet returned "Unable to connect" error. I have apache but i use it only for testing purposes!)

Is there some other server that's sharing those files over NFS? Something has to be answering the HTTP requests. It's not magic.

Hi,
I am not sure what machine to connect
So I tried localhost and the machine name given by the command "hostname". I am quoting the responses from telnet: (IP address and hostname have been mutated)
----------------------------Session 1----------------------------------
> telnet 0 80
Trying 0.0.0.0...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

----------------------------Session 2----------------------------------
>hostname
m1.zorro.com
>telnet m1.zorro.com 80
Trying 66.59.92.98...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

----------------------------Session 3----------------------------------
>telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

PS: FYI, the server is indeed on an NFS, which three machines share.

~Srini