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Hi, I have added the MX entry in my DNS for the whole domain. But still the mails are taking more than one minute to reach the mail hub. In nsswitch.conf I have dns,local setup. Do I have to do anything in the sendmail.cf file of the client or mail hub. Thanks Suresh

Yep, You got it. When I disbled the DNS lookup from nsswitch.conf file, It went fine. But I am not going to change the nsswitch.conf file permanently. I planned to add an MX record in the DNS. Hope this will solve my problem. If I am wrong please correct me. Thanks and Regards Suresh

Hi All, We have lot of null client set up in our domain, which forwards mail to a Mail Hub, which is also, the DNS server for the domain. Whenever I send the mail from nullclient it takes more than one minute to reach the mail hub. From hub it is cleared to the outside world in a second. Anyone...

Hi All, I want to backup the files on a remote tape drive through tar command(Normally I use the rsh command with tar to achieve this). I know lot of ways to do that. But can any one tell me the simple and best idea to do it. Thanks Suresh

Hi swbart, Thanks for the info. Can you please explain the steps you followed to create the alias. Thanks to all Suresh

Hi All, I have a problem in creating an alias address for the existing NIC. I have a NIC en0 and it has the address 53.252.38.40 and I am trying to create a alias address as 53.252.38.50. When I do this step using the ifconfig command somebody reocmmended me to put the netmask as FFFFFFFF...

Hi everyone, I forget to mention the version of PERL. It's PERL for NT Revision 4.0.1.0 Build 3 patch level 36. Is the problem due to Perl version?. Once I know the problem is due to the version,then I can update it to 5.0. But without checking I don't want to update the version at...

Hi, I tested this also. I am just not getting anything for the $! variable, As you said I tried print ("$!,$var"); I am just getting the O/P as ,65536 Thanks Suresh.

Hi stillflame, I have just tried with two simple lines of code like $var=system("dir"); ### file name test.pl print $var; From DOS prompt I am running like D:\Suresh\test>D:\Product\perl.exe test.pl I am getting a return value of 65536(actual code 256). I don't know why it's...

Hi Tracy, I tried both the way. Even If I have the output.txt file, it's not getting updated after the system command. Thanks, suresh

Hi tracy, I tried your option also, I am getting a return code of 65536(without dividing 256). But I am not getting the result even I clear the buffer. Thanks anyway Suresh

Hi kai, Thanks for your reply. I mean I am not getting the file output.txt after doing the command $cmd="dir > output.txt"; system ($cmd); Do you have any more solutions??? Thanks Suresh

Hi all, I am trying to run a simple system command in NT using perl. I am having the code as $cmd="dir > output.txt"; # or just $cmd=dir; system $cmd; but I am not getting any output. Will it be a problem with the version of PERL I am having. If I have a perl.exe, How can I find the...

I want to prevent a particular user from logging into my server.When I do a 'users' command I find him logged him.How do you eject him?

I wanted to connect my sun box to a router to connect to the internet.But my router is configured such that it allocates an ip dynamically to the machines connecting to it.I tried to provide a static ip in the same subnet in which the router allocates its ip and tried to connect to the internet...