Oh how i wish

[Dawes, Stephen]

Ok, Krister, it seems like you are still getting the run-around here.
All Chuck, Toby and Luke could say is go ahead and ask. But to give them
the benefit of the doubt, maybe they did not see your questions in your
note. If they did however, it is answers like they gave that only lead
to unnecessary stress and confusion.

So for my take on your note!
Question 1: How do I know how many serial ports I actually have on my
computer?
Answer: The simplest answer is to do a physical look at the box and
count how many serial ports you have. The problem with this simple
answer is that, although the ports may physically be there, they are not
necessarily activated. This is something that is usually handled in the
bios settings. Once the port is turned on in the bios, you can then see
it from within your operating system. Remember that ports start counting
from 0 in Linux, and not 1 as is the norm in other operating systems.
So, ttyS0 is the same as com1 ttyS1 is the same as com2, ..., in the
other operating systems world.

Question 2: How do I set up additional email accounts? 
Answer: Note, that in my restating of your question, I did not include
the distribution. This is because I believe that my answer will be
distribution independent. The simplest way to create additional email
accounts is to add a new user to the system for each email account you
wish to have. So for example, you may already have an email account
named Krister, and want to add one called junkmail. To do this, just add
the user junkmail to your system and you are off to the races. In
RedHat, you would do something like:
usradd junkmail 
Make sure to set a password for the junkmail account and the rest is
history as they say.

So, I hope that this helps, and is note to confusing. At least I think
that I answered your initial questions instead of doing nothing more
then make you send another message in increasing frustration.

Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca



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