Re: A doubt...

[Evan Van Dyke <vandyke@bme.ri.ccf.org>]

"Mahendra D. Khandkar SBO" wrote:
>         I have installed Debian Linux 2.0 on a Pentium 90 Mhz machine.
>   I am trying to configure so many things as I can . The major problem
>  I am facing is about the network.  After configuring the network,
>   machine can connect to other machines on the network but it is not allowing
>  other machines to connect to itself. The error on  other machines is
>  " Connection refused ".  I tried a lot by playing with the files
>  /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. It is not working. Will you please
>  sort out the problem for me ?

Look at your /var/log/system.log file... does it say why the connection
is being refused?  there are two possibilities that I can see:  the
servers aren't running, or an /etc/hosts*  problem.  if you want,
you can TEMPORARIALLY  put:  ALL: ALL as the first line
in your /etc/hosts.allow file to make sure that it's not blocking
anything.  If this fixes the problem, then You just need to
find out which rule is causing the problem... comment them out one at
a time until it is fixed.  then fix the broken rule.

>   By the way , one more thing. Can I configure various utilities (e.g. network)
>  after system is installed once ? Or everytime I have to for boot/root
>  (installation ) floppies ?

of course.  most of the configuration files are sored in the /etc
heirarchy... some programs(like sendmail) have configure utilities
(eg. sendmailconf).  check out /usr/doc/<package> and the manfiles
for information about specific packages.

--Evan