overriding executable in path with an aliased entry

2005-07-06 Thread Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
Hello, I just realized that there exists an executable called /bin/dir, which gets executed in preference to an alias'd 'dir' in my .bashrc. How can I ascertain that the aliased entries get preference over executables in my $PATH? (I thought it was logical for the shell to use the alias'd entri

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
Thanks for all responses -- Ray, I had removed a couple of comments from the pasted .fetchmailrc in the email composer. Hence the discrepancy about line number errors. :-? Following Amin's advice I tried to run fetchmail from the cmd-line and I could'nt authenticate myself (I am 100% sure about ke

accessing email via POP3

2004-11-30 Thread Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
Hello, I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher on an old machine to do this. I am trying to do the same from another machine that runs Redhat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8) and seems like I cannot decipher how exactly to do this (perusing the fe