Re: How to tell if Port is blocked...

2003-02-22 Thread Andrew . Hodgson
Hi, Traceroute is not really the tool you are after. You need an external port scan done using another Internet connection or by a friend, or someone you can trust will not use the results for nefarious means. There are sites that will do simple scans for you .. but of course is up

Re: mount problems

2002-12-10 Thread Andrew . Hodgson
Are you in the mount directory (/cdrom, or /mnt) at the time? If so, just cd .. and it should be fine. HTH, Andrew *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email

OFF TOPIC - please help!! (FAQ's by email needed)

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew . Hodgson
Hi everybody, I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me that I might be

FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew . Hodgson
Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes