Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:52:17 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: tMind@bigfoot.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sturgeon@webworks2000.net Subject: Re: Unix help Message-ID: <s77ebe6d.009@usgs.gov>
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After you've gotten your feet wet with sendmail, you might try atdot, it's not that hard to set up and they do have a pretty active mailing list = for=20 help. Atdot does it's best to simulate a hotmail service. If you want=20 that kinda thing take a look at http://oliver.imagegroup.com/ for an example of what you can do with it. You can subscribe at http://www.atdot.org and you can search the mailing list at http://hinduweb.org/atdot-archive/ To be truly hotmail like you will have to set up virtusertables a step by step is at http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html >>> "Tenacious" <tMind@bigfoot.com> 7/3/99 7:39:28 AM >>> Answers to your question: 1. su yourself to root right, and do a 'passwd' will change your root = password. 2. Use Sendmail (come w/ FreeBSD, make sure you have the later version) 3. use 'ftp' to get your tar file and put it in the directory and do 'tar = xfv tarfile.tar' or 'tar xfvz tarfile.tar.gz' Except your first and third question, the mail could be a huge topic. You = better get yourself some books to familiar your on this topic. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Terry & Sheila Sturgeon=20 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 11:25 PM Subject: Unix help We are running our own server, located at our ISP. We are running = Unix=20 FreeBSD with Apache server. We telnet into the server when necessary.=20= We are needing to know three things:=20 1. How can we change our su password?=20 2. What do we need to have to be able to offer our Online Community=20 Members their own email account using our domain, for example:=20 username@fishhunt.org?=20 3. What do we need to have to download a .tar file, transfer the = .tar=20 file to Unix, decompress it and install appropriate files?=20 As you can tell we are very new to this and we have a lot of questions=20= that we are having great difficulty finding answers to.=20 If you are able to reply to this email, please type in layman's = terms,=20 we are not familiar with all the technical terms yet.=20 Thank you in advance for your cooperation.=20 Terry and Sheila Sturgeon=20 http://www.fishhunt.org/=20 =20 =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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