Re: ZOOM X4 adsl modem , Apache behind home gateway

2004-09-12 Thread James Allen
As previously stated, you will want to use a dynamic dns service such as dyndns.org. If you sign up with them the rest is pretty simple. apt-get install ddclient and after the configuration and installation, since you are behind a gateway, the following line needs to be added to the end of /etc/d

Re: D-Link DFM-562E Modem

2004-09-09 Thread James Allen
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:39:58PM +1000, Christopher Bragg wrote: > Is the above External modem suitable with Debian It's usb, so it might work. > The only modems that I have found to be available here are > :-- Swann, Netcomm and D-Link If the above doesn't happen to work, get a good o

Re: firewall/router configuration

2004-09-07 Thread James Allen
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:15:38 -0300, James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a > clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I > take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming > i

Re: permisions in the /dev directory

2004-09-07 Thread James Allen
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:41:28 -0400, Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To let a user run any command with sudo add a line such as the > > following: > > username ALL = (ALL) ALL > > This is a terrible idea. It essentially makes username equivalent to root. > Yes, the user has

Re: Network Connection Question

2004-09-07 Thread James Allen
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am a recent convert to Debian. I have installed Debian in my old computer i386 machine (Configuration given below) I would like to know if there is a way I can have this macine to identlify the network and the ip address

Re: permisions in the /dev directory

2004-09-07 Thread James Allen
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:28:45 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of my modem problem was that there write permission for the user > group for the devices in the /dev directory was not set. I have a > question > > Should the whole /dev directory have the the group-write at

Re: is it possible to know the SERIAL # of my harddisk thru terminal?

2004-09-07 Thread James Allen
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:24:30 +0800, Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a remote server which i bought a month ago. > I was curious to know the serial# of my harddisk, can it be viewed by > a terminal login only? remotely? hdparm -i /dev/hda replace hda with the disk. There is also

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-05 Thread James Allen
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:39:22 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, managed to set read and write permissions for both ttyS4 and > dex/modem So I am connecting, > > Well, I gotta sleep, I just wish I could figure out why I cant resolve > a hostname, like www.google.com > S