From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 11:37:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19695 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19666 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA11440; Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Problems YOU can have? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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