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Hi, excuse me by write in poor english, I don't know your language. I hope you can help me. I'm trying run qmail-scanner, an script wich require suid perl enable. I'm getting this message by configure script: (...) Testing suid nature of /usr/bin/perl... Whoa - broken perl install found. Cannot even run a simple script setuid You will either have to correct this or use the C-...

I usually use the “remote desktop” feature on windows xp and vista to remotely administer windows servers. I would like to know how I can remotely administer a linux box (both graphically and non graphically) from a windows desktop pc and from a linux desktop pc.

Hello folks! I have the following problem: I have a 3Ware-Raid-Controller. For better performance the vendor thells me the following: *********************** For Linux kernel 2.6, If you enter the following command: blockdev --setra X /dev/sda (i.e. blockdev --setra 16384 /dev/sda) (Note: 16384 is just an example value. You will have to do testing to determine the optimal ...

I am looking for chat room software that runs on Linux. This is not the client side of things but rather the hosting side of it. Preferably the client can use any OS as they choose. Anyone know of any? Used Yahoo's IM as well as MS's and they don't fit the bill. Should have administration capabilities.

Recently changes have happened that allow links in e-mails to be opened in Konqueror instead of Firefox, even though I have chosen firefox to be default under personal settings/component chooser/web browser. How can I stop this! I only use firefox for web browsing and DO NOT WANT to use konqueror. Testy

Hello, I have a guitar learning CD that I got awhile back. It used to work in under Wine in openSUSE 10.3. However, when insert the CD into the DVD drive (same as before), I get the following on 'dmesg' end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 end_request: I/...

Does anyone know of a community, opensource rebuild of SLES 10? I've been using SLES 10 at work for some time now, and I'd love to a similar version for projects at home. Ideally it would be nice to have something similar to CentOS, Scientific, or Whitebox which is based on SLES instead of RHEL. Thanks in advance.

Can one of you technical math minds figure this out for me . . . . I am trying to find my connection speed to the internet I PING www.google.com I get back statistics that say 64 bytes from (IP-address) 8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0 loss 120ms avg round-trip Show me the math please to convert this to actual Kbps in a 768Kbps...

Comcast blocked my outgoing e-mail because they claimed my tripwire reports were spam. How do I change the port used for smtp to 587, which they claim they will let through? SSL would be nice too. The Yast Mail Transfer Agent in 11.0 does not have any outgoing mail port setting. Thanks, Jim

There are several well known UNIX systems like Solaris, AIX or HP UX and also many well known Linux Distros like SUSE and RedHat. I wonder if somebody becomes a good administrator on a Linux Distro if he will be able to do basic administration of a UNIX system or if somebody is good administrator of one UNIX System if she will be able to do basic admin of another UNIX system. How different ...

I usually use the “remote desktop” feature on windows xp and vista to remotely administer windows servers. I would like to know how I can remotely administer a linux box (both graphically and non graphically) from a windows desktop pc and from a linux desktop pc.

Hi, excuse me by write in poor english, I don't know your language. I hope you can help me. I'm trying run qmail-scanner, an script wich require suid perl enable. I'm getting this message by configure script: (...) Testing suid nature of /usr/bin/perl... Whoa - broken perl install found. Cannot even run a simple script setuid You will either have to correct this or use the C-...