File Permissions

Unique question, Pidgin (aka gaim) has some configuration files. I would like to have these configuration files remain untouched/unmodified, but readable. I am running pidgin under a normal user account. Here is what I tried: chmod 004 file.xml sudo chown root:root file.xml Launch pidgin as us

Can't receive incoming http traffic via wget and others, can through firefox and links (iptables)

I just had to relocate my debian sarge server to a new location. When I shut the machine off, everything worked great. When I turned it on with a new isp, I'm having trouble with incomming traffic on port 80. I have a highly intensive iptables firewall. Rules are broken down so that only incomi

Hanging sunrpc connections.

I have a debian sarge machine (we'll call machine1) at home that currently lists 67 sunrpc connections to another server (machine2) of mine.  However, machine2 does not indicate any open connections to machine1.  The output of 'netstat --inet | grep sunrpc' on machine1 produces (abridged): tcp