What utility to post my gateway's IP?

I am using a D-Link router as the gateway between my cable modem and my home network. If I want to remotely access my Woody computer, I need to know the address assigned the gateway by the ISP's DHCP server. I could then configure an open port in the gateway router so I could access the server.

how do you update debconf?

I want to install popfile, but it needs a newer version of debconf than is installed initially with woody. apt-get fails by saying the installed version is the latest. # apt-get install debconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, debconf is already the newest ver

Package to delete pre-incoming mail?

I am getting hammered on one email account with viruses/worms. Not such a big deal at home, because I can run popfile and read my mail. But I access my mail via a webmail interface when at the office, and it is annoying to keep finding 100 "Check this out kid" emails stuffing my box. What I'

Re: newbie Usenet config question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when roadrunner > is not jam packed. After too much pain, I dselected cnew

Re: newbie Usenet config question

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I use cnews+suck on Woody, but I do so because I have been using cnews ever > since it came out. It takes quite a bit of fiddling, and I had to > patch suck. I could try to document my configuration for you if you want

Re: newbie Usenet config question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Although it is clearly reading the articles and processing them, they > never show up in the file tree of /var/lib/news. Plus, they never > show up in my xnews reader when I connect to my debian box fr

Re: newbie Usenet config question

"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: > > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times

newbie Usenet config question

I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when roadrunner is not jam packed. After some trial and error, I am pulling the news using: suck news-server.houston.rr.com -c @/etc/suck/suckcommands where suckcommands co