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hey folks, anyone know how to stop a linux machine from shutting down the video display after x minutes. i have a machine on my desk booted to the CLI and that is how i use it but the video signal (not the monitor) kick off after 10 minutes of in activity. any thoughts? i know from the gui i...

i have a script that when an alarm is recieved it uses mailx to send an email to my pager the problem is metrocall doesn't seem to like that my host is reporting as host.mydomain.com it seems strange to me. what will Cwmydomain.com do to the .cf file

Actually i did that in my .cf file and it changed the way i see the mail comfing into my exchange account but i still get the same error code from metrocall when i try to email them directly. Thanks for the help any further thoughts?

Hello all, I'm trying to get my ultra5 to send mail to the internet. it has a problem with this particular host because it seems to be pickier than others. How can I force my machine to report itself as root@mydomain.com instead of root@host.mydomain.com as you can see below metrocall...

it is linux red hat 7.3 don't laugh but i had this problem on another machine (exact same problem) that is why i built this machine. now i'm having the same problem. only common thing is apache i build the machines then config apache and wham a day later it hangs and won't reboot. thanks for...

Got it the problem was with the Listen statements I had in the httpd.conf file. Everything appears to be running right now. Thanks for the help Mark

My linux machine won't seem to start up it keeps hanging at "bringing up loopback interface" everything else starts up fine and gives an OK till this point. Any ideas? is there a way that i can start in like single user mode or safe mode? Thanks Mark

When I run service httpd restart it says "stopping httpd [fail] Starting httpd [ok] I guess it isn't shutting down right. Traffic is forwarding to the box from my router when I run tcpdump port 80 I do see Bi-directional traffic from an external host hitting port 80. htis is a brand new...

[Tue Jan 20 13:45:29 2004] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 This is the error message i get when i start my httpd service. this server seems to serve to the local subnet only. it won't serve to the public URL that points to it yet i can ping Any help...

Strike that it worked as it should have when i corrected a typo. Really appreciate the help. let me know if you need any router help thats what i am good at. Thanks again Mark

pmcmicha, Totally appreciate your help. Could i do something like this? It doesn't seem to work for me. the firs variable i want to pass is the ip address of the host the second is the interface name as shown below. Thanks again for the help Mark #!/usr/bin/expect -- set TEST1 [ lindex...

Hello all, Can anyone tell me how to pass multiple arguments in an expect script. I can't seem to get more than one to work. Below is my test script this script will spawn a telnet session connect to a router then kick back the output for a show interface command. right now the only variable...

Great thanks for the advice i'll check it out .

can anyone explain how i can mount a volume on a win2k machine so it can be seen on a unix or linux machine. i have some syslog files i'd like to pour through using some scripts. short of ftp'ing them over to the unix/linux machine

Excellent! I tried all the suggestion and was able to make them all work. The help here is invaluable. Thanks again Mark