Re: Setup Issues
See comments below.
Marc
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Marc Mongeon <mongeon@bankoe.com>
Unix Specialist
Ban-Koe Systems
9100 W Bloomington Fwy
Bloomington, MN 55431-2200
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"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
>>> "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> 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
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