Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems YOU can have? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510113541.4464B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980509160509.19188C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > > > > You need to be a member of group `dialer' or root. > > > > > > I was indeed running as root > > > > Are you sure? You wouldn't have gotten that message if you were running > > as root. > > Very very sure. Don't worry about that. Look, I installed my printer, I > could connect via cu or minicom, and suddenly all goes wrong. All these > problems appear suddenly. It seems to me it's more a single bug than many > things I forgot (even if I always forget sometin ;)). I think these > problems appeared after I use my installation diskette by mistake to > install some more distribution sets. Could that be the bug? Possibly -- the perms could be screwed up. Check the permissions on /dev/cuaaX -- it should be owned by uucp:dialer. The default perms is 600, I usually amend that to 660. > Yes, I use POP, but I think this will only retrieve the _new_ email... > with no possibilities of saving incoming messages on the remote host... > (account on IRIX 5) Ain't there a way to interact _directly_ with the > mailing system of the remote host (except than via a terminal)? It looks like you want IMAP instead. Pine can handle this. Ask the remote sysadmin if IMAP is supported on the machine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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