Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions
>>>>> "Maury" == Maury Merkin <merkin@his.com> writes:
> Hi, New user here. With, no doubt, a few questions you might
> have already answered forty-four hundred times this week
> Hey. What else are new users good for?
> But I'm only new to Debian. I've been using Linux since late
> 1994. Started with Slackware and somewhere along the way
> switched to RH.
> Anyway, I installed Debian (potato) this am and all went pretty
> well. Except:
> [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start
> X. I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me
> and, before I start groping around and resetting permissions
> helter skelter, I was wondering if anyone here might tell me the
> canonical way to do this under Debian.
This is a problem that seems to pop up randomly on various systems and
I've never been able to figure it out except by reinstalling X. It's
kinda odd...
> [2] Somewhere along in the installation process, I was
> confronted with a series of questions regarding something called
> "Zope" (I think it was). I have no idea what Zope is or does.
> And I simply left all of the fields (having to do with log-on
> and passwords and such) blank. Please, someone tell me where to
> find information about Zope, such as: what is it? where do I go
> back now and (re-)configure it properly (if necessary).
> Last question is anticipatory. I'm used (as I mentioned before)
> to the RH way of doing things, in the instant case, handling my
> ppp dial-up account. At first I fought it hard, but then
> decided to try to do things RH's way and, lo! and behold!,
> everything worked pretty well. But now I'm gonna be using
> Debian, and I'd like to learn the Debian way. So,
> [3] What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP? Ditto for
> hang up? How do I set it up so that my user (again, not "root")
> can dial and disconnect?
use pppconfig to setup your ISP information. Then to allow yourselfto
dial out, add yourself to group dip. then you can just use the
commands pon, and poff to start and stop you connection, respectively.
Enjoy. I came from RedHat too. Debian is much, much nicer, in my
opinion.
Marshal
> I s'pose that's it for the moment. Any assistance will be
> graciously appreciated.
> Maury
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