[SOLVED] Newbie question on appropriate use of forum

[MTUser2007]

I inherited the care of a Gentoo system that I knew very little about. Through help here, I got portage updated and started to fix some problems. Now I am starting to learn more about the system in terms of Linux generally and not necessarily features as they relate to Gentoo. For instance, I found root's folder has a dead.letter file that is huge. This seems to be a problem with how sendmail is configured.

Are these types of questions, have I set up an alias correctly for sendmail or how do I turn off search mode in less OK to ask here if I can't figure it out. Should I take these types of questions to a place like linuxquestions.org?

As always, thanks for the help.

[nixnut]

Hi MTUser2007,

Here are two links to get you started:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-525.html
General linux questions that have no bearing on gentoo are best asked in the OTW forum or on other sites.

regards,
nixnut
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