On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:55:16AM -0400, Maury Merkin wrote:
> Hi,
> 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.
There was much rejoicing...
> 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.
/etc/X11/Xserver
Defaults -- you can usually start X from console but not from a running X
session. This is a Good Thing in a networked environment.
> [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).
http://www.zope.org/
It's a Python-based web application server. Technocrat.net
(http://www.technocrat.net/) is built using it.
> [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?
/usr/bin/pon
/usr/bin/poff
/usr/sbin/pppconfig
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