From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 2: 9:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3759D14C59 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 02:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Sun, 04 Jul 1999 02:09:45 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 02:09:23 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: tMind@bigfoot.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sturgeon@webworks2000.net Subject: Re: Unix help Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read on the list some time ago that there were some San Francisco ISPs working with Inktomi to get a native proxy server functioning. Have not heard anything in awhile though. You might try a search in the list archives with a keyword of Inktomi. http://www.inktomi.com/ >>> "Tenacious" 7/3/99 7:39:28 AM >>> Answers to your question: 1. su yourself to root right, and do a 'passwd' will change your root = password. 2. Use Sendmail (come w/ FreeBSD, make sure you have the later version) 3. use 'ftp' to get your tar file and put it in the directory and do 'tar = xfv tarfile.tar' or 'tar xfvz tarfile.tar.gz' Except your first and third question, the mail could be a huge topic. You = better get yourself some books to familiar your on this topic. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Terry & Sheila Sturgeon=20 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 11:25 PM Subject: Unix help We are running our own server, located at our ISP. We are running = Unix=20 FreeBSD with Apache server. We telnet into the server when necessary.=20= We are needing to know three things:=20 1. How can we change our su password?=20 2. What do we need to have to be able to offer our Online Community=20 Members their own email account using our domain, for example:=20 username@fishhunt.org?=20 3. What do we need to have to download a .tar file, transfer the = .tar=20 file to Unix, decompress it and install appropriate files?=20 As you can tell we are very new to this and we have a lot of questions=20= that we are having great difficulty finding answers to.=20 If you are able to reply to this email, please type in layman's = terms,=20 we are not familiar with all the technical terms yet.=20 Thank you in advance for your cooperation.=20 Terry and Sheila Sturgeon=20 http://www.fishhunt.org/=20 =20 =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message