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---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> "Doug Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/15 7:00 AM >>> > First Problem: > > I have a Debian 2.1 installation I intend to use purely as a gateway / > router (Intel Pentium 100 / 16Mb / 170Mb HDD) to the point where it will > dialup OK, tells me "Starting pppd at blah blah blah" ..... then > stops at a blinking cursor and doesn't seem to respond further [...] > What have I not done right ?? Make sure that the "debug" option is not commented out (i.e., the word "debug" is not preceded by "#") and attempt to connect. When it hangs, look in /var/log/ppp.log for a clue as to the problem. Post this output to the list. I don't think the contents of /etc/resolv.conf are relevant at this point. > Second Problem: > > What file does one edit to put proxy settings (this box doesn't have X ) ?? Do you want to BE a proxy server or USE a proxy server? See the Firewall HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall- HOWTO.html) for information on setting up a proxy server. Otherwise, read the man pages for the application that you want to proxy. > Third Problem: > > Other than using the three finger salute, how does one disconnect in > terminal mode "exit" ends the login session. Is that what you're talking about? > Fourth problem: > > How does one find out how much free space left on a hard drive .... seems > nobody thought to include basic stuff like that anyplace I can find it "df" > Fifth problem: > > How does one tell just what stuff is installed (eg text editors) and what it > does .... especially since so most things have such weird names that one > can't readily tell what they do "man -k <topic>" gives a list of commands related to the topic, then do "man <command>". For example, "man -k text" gave the following output on my machine: Pod::Text (3pm) - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text Text::ParseWords (3pm) - parse text into an array of tokens ae (1) - tiny full-screen text editor amstex (1) - structured text formatting and typesetting awk (1) - pattern scanning and text processing language echo (1) - display a line of text ed (1) - text editor editor (1) - text editors ex (1) - text editors extract++ (1) - SWISH++ text extractor fmt (1) - simple optimal text formatter frlatex (1) - text formatting and typesetting frtex (1) - text formatting and typesetting initex (1) - text formatting and typesetting latex (1) - structured text formatting and typesetting mawk (1) - pattern scanning and text processing language nawk (1) - pattern scanning and text processing language nex (1) - text editors nvi (1) - text editors nview (1) - text editors pbmtext (1) - render text into a bitmap pktype (1) - verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain t ext pod2text (1p) - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text pr (1) - convert text files for printing rdjpgcom (1) - display text comments from a JPEG file red (1) - text editor sort (1) - sort lines of text files tex (1) - text formatting and typesetting vi (1) - text editors view (1) - text editors virtex (1) - text formatting and typesetting wrjpgcom (1) - insert text comments into a JPEG file zless (1) - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text zmore (1) - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
