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Table of Contents
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1. Emergency help
1.1 Help! I can't remember my root password!
1.2 Help! I've just cat'ed a binary file, and my screen is full of
garbage!
1.3 How do I get off the list?
1.4 I've inserted a cdrom into the drive. Which directory do the files
appear under?
1.5 I can't seem to be able to eject my CD.
1.6 There were some errors on my screen when booting up, but they
scrolled by too fast. How do I see them?
1.7 <Ctrl-C> doesnt kill my command. My session is hanging. How do I
terminate my command?
2. Linux Installation
2.1 I heard of something like it's bad to put some things past the
1024th cylinder. What is this?
2.2 How do I install Linux?
2.3 How much space do I need to install Linux?
2.4 I use Win95. Can I use LILO?
2.5 Do I need to repartition to use Linux?
2.6 How do I get Linux to recognize memory above 64mb.
2.7 Where can I find info on how to install modules?
2.8 How does one create a boot disk?
3. How do I....?
3.1 How do I see the list of subdir in current dir (same as dir /ad in
dos)?
3.2 How do I sort (edit with sed, tr, grep, awk...) a file "in place"?
3.3 How can I use tar to extract just a few files from my archive?
3.4 How do I control an FTP session automatically?
3.5 How do I get pine to put my From: field correctly?
3.6 Why won't my winmodem work in Linux?
3.7 How do I mount devices from user accounts?
3.8 How could I eliminate the ^M of my DOS ascii files?
3.9 How do I do to make Apache treat the files with extension *.htm
the same as *.html files.
3.10 I can't seem to be able to redirect the output of the command.
3.11 I've recently downloaded a program, and I don't have a clue how
to install it.
3.12 I need some of mail forwarded to another e-mail, unless it has
"Hello" in the subject, in which case I want to auto respond
and....?
3.13 Why isn't my ls colored in RedHat?
4. Logging in and Environment.
4.1 Why can't I run commands in the current directory by <command>, I
have to type './<command>'?
4.2 Why do I have to specify the full pathname of programs in the
current directory when I am root?
4.3 After using su I try to run some command, but I get "Command not
found".
4.4 I want to use multiple screens, but I dont want to use X windows.
4.5 I am already logged in, but want to have another session as
another user.
5. Administration
5.1 How can I prevent root login from the network?
5.2 I wrote a script, and made it SUID but I get permission denied.
5.3 How can I limit a user to FTP only access?
5.4 Sendmail sometimes stalls for a long time. Why?
5.5 Where I can I change the message on the login screen?
5.6 What startup files do I need to set so all my users will have ...?
5.7 I get the error message "The program isn't able to find the swap
flag"
5.8 How do I add users?
5.9 How can I see what error messages flash by when booting, after
booting finishes?
6. Utilities
6.1 What good editors are available for linux?
6.2 What good file managers are available for linux?
6.3 What is the format of regexps that grep knows about?
6.4 Where can I find an application to help me compute on-line time?
7. X-Windows
7.1 How to you change the windows manager loaded at X startup?
7.2 How to I put windows where I want them with the command line?
7.3 How can I make Linux boot direcly into X-Windows?
7.4 How do I change the colors of an xterm?
7.5 How do I change the resolution in X-Windows?
7.6 How do I change the size of my virtual desktop in fvwm?
7.7 How do I get another X session as another user / start another
X-server?
8. Misc.
8.1 Where I can get HOWTOs and other FAQs?
8.2 How large a drive can Linux/ext2 handle?
8.3 What are magic numbers?
8.4 What does clock(8) mean?
8.5 What do the manual section numbers mean?
8.6 What are daemons?
8.7 Where do the man pages sit?
8.8 Are syscalls interrupts?
8.9 Where is the file system structure explained? (E.g., /etc -
system
8.10 Where can I find a list of all the syscalls?
8.11 Where is the Linux FAQ?
8.12 What's the thing with all those extensions?
8.13 What other linux mailing lists are there?
8.14 What is the maximum swap partition?
8.15 What does a file named "core" mean?
8.16 A file in /proc seems to be missing.
8.17 What is the System.map file?
8.18 What does 'strip' do?
9. Networking
9.1 How do I set my machine up so that I can dial out?
9.2 How do I dial into my machine?
1. Emergency help
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1.1 Help! I can't remember my root password!
What you will need to do, is a re-boot. If you are the administrator it
would be prudent to warn users that are logged in. Say something like you
have to do an emergency maintenance.
Ok, Now how do you do it.
1: first think up a new password.
2: reboot the machine
3: At lilo prompt type Linux 1
4: at the prompt after you are in type passwd root
5: enter your new password twice.
6: Reboot like normal
1.2 Help! I've just cat'ed a binary file, and my screen is full of
garbage!
Type 'reset'. (Dont worry if your typing seems to produce garbage on the
screen - if you havent made a typo, your terminal will return to sanity
after this.)
1.3 How do I get off the list?
echo unsubscribe <email address> | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.4 I've inserted a cdrom into the drive. Which directory do the files
appear under?
First of all, inserting a cdrom into a Linux machine does not mean that
the files can be immediately read. A 'mount' of the cdrom filesystem needs
to take place for this. The cdrom is a device, and the filesystem on that
device is "fitted" into all the other filesystems that are currently
mounted.
For example, if your cdrom is the master device on your secondary ide
controller, at bootup time, it will be recognized as device /dev/hdc.
Lets say that you have created a directory called /cdrom, and that you
want the cdrom files to be visible under this directory. The command
that you need to use is 'mount /dev/hdc /cdrom'. Now, if you go to the
/cdrom directory, you will see that the contents of the cdrom are visible
to you.
Note that normally, only the superuser has the authority to perform mounts
(though the superuser can set it up so that ordinary users can do mounts -
see the answer to 3.7).
1.5 I can't seem to be able to eject my CD.
You have to unmount it first. 'umount /cdrom' for example.
1.6 There were some errors on my screen when booting up, but they
scrolled by too fast. How do I see them?
If you are still at the initial login prompt, <Shift + PgUp> and <Shift+
PgDn> should allow you to scroll through the bootup messages. If you have
already logged in, you can try using the 'dmesg' command.
1.7 <Ctrl-C> doesnt kill my command. My session is hanging. How do I
terminate my command?
You need to get another session first. If you dont know how to do this,
and you are not using X windows, see the answer to question 4.4 / 4.5. If
you are using X windows and need to know how to get another session, take
a look at the answer to question 7.7. Once you have the session, (you
need to be the same user as you were when you ran the runaway command, or
the superuser), do a 'ps aux | grep <runaway command>' to and look through
the output to see which line corresponds to the process you are trying to
kill. The second column on the relevant line is the process id.
At this point, you have enough information to use the 'kill' command. The
(simplified) format of this command is 'kill -<signal> <process id>'. If
you do 'kill -l' you will see a list of the signals, and the numbers
corresponding to them. SIGKILL(9) is the last resort. Try sending SIGHUP
(1) or SIGTERM(15) prior to saying 'kill -9 <pid>' especially if you are
trying to terminate a process with a lot of resources / criticality.
2. Linux Installation
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2.1 I heard of something like it's bad to put some things past the 1024th
cylinder. What are those things?
Your root partition. Everything on / except /usr, /home, /var and /tmp
should be on a single partition, which is used to boot the system, and it
is called your root partition. It should not lie beyond the 1024th
cylinder because some PC BIOSes have trouble booting that far up.
2.2 How do I install Linux?
Read the Installation HOWTO. If you have problems it does not answer,
read the installation instructions for your specific distribution. If you
still have problems, that these do not cover, feel free to post an
accurate description of your problem. (Rather then "Can't install Linux",
try something like "After installing LILO, it curses me in foul language
for hours, and then freezes").
2.3 How much space do I need to install Linux?
>From 10megs (A truly minimal installation), to 4gigs (An installation
with everything).
2.4 I use Win95. Can I use LILO?
I. See the Linux+Win95 HOWTO.
II. Some people claim that the HOWTO is incorrect, and that Win95
reinstalls itself on the MBR unpredictably. Many other people think this
not true.The FAQ itself has no opinion. Personally, if you use Win95 I
recommend either loadlin, or (more strongly) a bootdisk.
2.5 Do I need to repartition to use Linux?
It is recommended, but not mandatory. See the UMSDOS HOWTO.
2.6 How do I get Linux to recognize memory above 64mb.
In your /etc/lilo.conf, put a line like:
append="mem=##M", where ## is the size of your RAM in megabytes or
append="mem=##k", where ## is the size of your RAM in killobytes.
WARNING! Do not specify more memory than you actually have. Your system
can misbehave and crash.
2.7 Where can I find info on how to install modules?
Module HOWTO
2.8 How does one create a boot disk?
Put a diskette into the floppy drive and do
dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
3. How do I....?
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3.1 How do I see the list of subdir in current dir (same as dir /ad in
dos)?
ls -l | grep ^d will do nicely
3.2 How do I sort (edit with sed, tr, grep, awk...) a file "in place"?
You can hide the intermediate file. E.g.:
Write a shell script called 'overwrite' that looks like:
-------- Cut here ------------
#!/bin/sh
tempfile=/tmp/`basename $0`.$$.$USER
cat > $tempfile
mv -f $tempfile $1
#end script
------- Cut here --------------
and do sort file | overwrite file
'overwrite' is pretty buggy here - quick and dirty solution. Don't use it
on "precious" files.
3.3 How can I use tar to extract just a few files from my archive?
Hard option: Do tar xvzf filename.tgz full-path-of-file-you-want
Easy option: Use midnight commander (available in your favourite
distribution or as a tar.gz in a sunsite mirror near you). mc treats the
file as a directory. Just get the file you want highlighted, and COPY /
VIEW it.
3.4 How do I control an FTP session automatically?
I. Try to search for ncftp
II. Try this script.
====The file called "fetchThem"========================================
#!/usr/bin/bash -ex
cd ~/where/you/want/the/files/to/land
ftp -i -n -v -d << -fetch &> fetch.log
open ftp.address.you.want.com
user ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd pub/exactly/where/you/want/to/be
bin
get bigfile.one
get bigfile.two
get enormouse.file
close
quit
fetch
======================================================================</PRE>
Then just say "at -f fetchThem 0400"
III. You can try using 'wget', available (probably) as sunsite in
/system/net/.......
3.5 How do I get pine to put my From: field correctly?
Note: This is assuming you are free to choose your username on the Linux
machine you are mailing from. Since most of us are the sysadmins on the
machine, it is a very likely assumption.
I'll show how to do it by way of example:
Your home machine is named, say ladybug.org.il
And your isp is math.huji.ac.il.
Your username, in both places, is moshez.
By default, your From field is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fire up pine, and in Main Menu, choose Setup, Configure.
The second line probably looks like:
user-domain = No Value Set
Change it to:
user-domain = math.huji.ac.il
(If you don't know how to do that, use pine's help).
Voila, you're done. Get ready for major spam now....
3.6 Why won't my winmodem work in Linux?
WinModems don't work with Linux. They require all sorts of software that
hasn't been ported, and probably never will, so take the modem back to
the store and get a decent modem.
3.7 How do I mount devices from user accounts?
You can specify in /etc/fstab that the device can be mounted by users, eg
add this line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 rw,user,noauto,unhide
3.8 How could I eliminate the ^M of my DOS ascii files?
Use the programs "fromdos" and "todos".
3.9 How do I do to make Apache treat the files with extension *.htm
the same as the *.html files?
Go to the httpd configuration directory where the file "mime.types" is
stored. This could be /usr/local/httpd/conf or /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf
or (for RedHat) /etc/httpd. Edit the mime.types file and find the line as
follows:
text/html html
Add the following line to the file:
text/html htm
Restart your web server and you're done.
3.10 I can't seem to be able to redirect the output of the command.
It probably writes to standard error. If the shell you are using is sh /
tcsh, try the command:
command >& file
and in sh/bash/ksh/zsh, try:
command >file 2>&1
3.11 I've recently downloaded a program, and I don't have a clue how to
install it.
Most programs come in source-form. When you have unpacked the source-code
in for example /usr/local/src and entered the new directory created: read
the README and INSTALL files (if present). They will tell you what to do;
but the most common procedure for making the source into an executable
and installing it in the right directory is './configure; make; make
install' or just 'make; make install'.
If it's a RedHat package, rpm, or a Debian package, deb, then you should
use rpm/dpkg. Try to use the package of the kind that belongs to your
system - if you can't, then there are package convertors(e.g., alien,
martian).
3.12 I need some of mail forwarded to another e-mail, unless it has
"Hello" in the subject, in which case I want to auto respond and....?
Find procmail, in your favorite distribution, or from a sunsite mirror
near you.
3.13 Why isn't my ls colored in RedHat?
The bash command alias 'ls=ls --color=auto' makes the ls command display
a colour listing. Put it in your .profile or in /etc/profile. In tcsh /
csh, put alias ls 'ls --color=auto' in your .tcshrc/.cshrc
4. Logging in and Environment.
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4.1 Why can't I run commands in the current directory by <command>, I
have to type ./<command>?
The shell, which is running commands for you, finds them by looking at
a variable called PATH. It is a colon seperated list of directories. An
empty entry counts as '.', your current directory, but if neither "." nor
an empty entry are in your PATH, the shell won't run commands in your
current directory without an explicit pathname.
4.2 Why do I have to specify the full pathname of programs in the current
directory when I am root?
For security reasons the PATH variable for the superuser must not contain
the current directory or '.'. The superuser has access to priviledge
programs (for example - fdisk - which can be used to wipe out data on your
hard drives). The superuser also has the authority to poke around in any
directory on the system. If a program created by a malicious user exists
in the same name as a system command, then the superuser can inadvertently
cause damage. There are no authority checks that exist to stop a
superuser.
Consider the following example. Malicious user Joe Crack creates a program
called 'ls' and places it in his home directory. When executed, this
program will delete all files on the system. If the superuser is in the
home directory of Joe Crack, and does an 'ls', he ends up wiping the
system clean. (If ordinary user Joe Blow had done the same thing, the
system would have complained that he didnt have the authority to delete
some of the most important files.)
4.3 After using su I try to run some command, but I get "Command not
found".
Your PATH is inherited from the previous shell. I doesn't contain /sbin.
After you su, give a command like
for csh/tcsh:
setenv PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
for bash/sh/zsh
export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Or you could simply do 'su -' instead of 'su'. This has the effect of
making the new shell a login shell, which means that you will get all the
correct paths.
4.4 I want to use multiple screens, but I dont want to use X windows.
You need to use virtual consoles. The keys <Alt+F1> through <Alt+F6>
offer you six different virtual consoles. This is of course valid only if
you are at the console (the monitor connected to the actual machine
running linux). If you are telnetting into a linux machine, or using
rlogin or such stuff, you can always open up another telnet / rlogin
session.
Note that six is not a magic number - you can define however many
(depending upon machine resources) virtual consoles you want using
/etc/inittab. The most common practice is to define six consoles.
4.5 I am already logged in, but want to have another session as another
user.
See the answer to question 4.4.
5. Administration
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5.1 How can I prevent root login from the network?
Edit /etc/securetty indicating the ttys that root should be able to login
from. 'man securetty' should provide more info.
5.2 I wrote a script, and made it SUID but I get permission denied.
POSIX forbids SUID scripts because of security holes. A work-around is to
run them from a C wrapper which calls the system(3) function. However,
the prefered way is to re-write the script in C, without calling
system(3), but exec(2).
I don't remember exactly what the security holes are - will someone send
me an explanation to put in the FAQ?
5.3 How can I limit a user to FTP only access?
Try giving him a shell /usr/bin/kickout and then do echo /usr/bin/kickout
>> /etc/shells
(For an extra touch, cause /usr/bin/kickout to be a script like
#!/bin/sh
echo $USER tried to connect by telnet, security problem | mail root
echo This is a security breach. The adminitstrator has been notified.
)
5.4 Sendmail sometimes stalls for a long time. Why?
This happens because Sendmail cant map hostnames to ipaddresses via a DNS
server. It needs a defined dnsserver in /etc/resolv.conf and a valid route
for dns lookups.
5.5 Where I can I change the message on the login screen?
Edit /etc/issue to change the login in screen.In the default Slackware
setup, the script /etc/rc.d/rc.S overwrites any changes you make in
/etc/issues. To stop it from doing that you must comment out the lines
doing this (search for '/etc/issues', it's somewhere near the end of the
script). This probably applies to some other distributions too.
5.6 What startup files do I need to set so all my users will have .....?
Read the manuals for the shells your users use. Under FILES you will find
which shells read which startup files and when.
5.7 I get the error message "The program isn't able to find the swap flag"
from swapon.
try 'mkswap /dev/<your swap partition>'
5.8 How do I add users?
There is a command called adduser.
5.9 How can I see what error messages flash by when booting, after booting
finishes?
All boot messages originating from the kernel (not from the scripts) can
be recalled with the 'dmesg' command.
6. Utilities
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6.1 What good editors are available for linux?
I. Vi clones - elvis, nvi - almost exact clones
vim - a clone with many improvements.
These are good editors to know about, for several reasons, not the least
of which is that it is standard, and usually some vi clone exists on
every rescue boot disk. Try to make sure you know how to edit a file from
vi. And remember the advice: if you want out now! just type:
ESC, ESC, ESC, :, q, !, RETURN.
Personally, I use vim for all my tasks - it is quite a good programmer's
editor too.
II. Emacs - The one and only. It is a pretty good editor, but it takes
about 50megs disk space. It is totally re-programmable.
Also available is Xemacs.
III. Pico - A small editor which comes with pine. Some people believe
that some day pico users will see the light and start to use vi.
IV. Nedit - similar to Windows editors
6.2 What good file managers are available for linux?
Most people agree that mc (Midnight Commander, partially a N*****
Commander clone) is one of the best.
Tkdesk - fully featured and configurable - and easy to use! - also has
windows like editor.
6.3 What is the format of regexps that grep knows about?
Try man 7 regex
6.4 Where can I find an application to help me compute on-line time?
7. X-Windows
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7.1 How to you change the windows manager loaded at X startup?
The system-wide X initialization file is sometimes kept in:
/usr/X11R6/lib/xinit/xinitrc
On RedHat systems, it is in:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
If you want to change the default window manager for the system, you
simply change the path and binary name to the window manager of your
choice to the end of this file, but prefix the line with 'exec', as this
will ensure that the X server shuts down after exiting the window manager.
Ex :
exec /usr/X11/bin/fvwm
If you want to change the window manager for a certain user, copy the
xinit file from the above mantioned path to their home directory, and
call it .xinitrc, and change the last line in the same manner.
7.2 How to I put windows where I want them with the command line?
Most X-windows apps have an option called -geometry WxH+X+Y. Read the
manuals for more.
7.3 How can I make Linux boot direcly into X-Windows?
Modify /etc/inittab. Look for a line that looks like "id:3:initdefault:"
and change it into "id:5:initdefault:" (i.e. 5 instead of 3).
7.4 How do I change the colors of an xterm?
I. On the command line, xterm has different attributes for background
color, foreground color, and curser color. To change xterm to display to
a black background with white text, and a blue curser, the command line
would be...
xterm -bg black -fg white -cr blue
Try xterm --help to see more command-line options
II. Press Ctrl-middle button on the xterm, and have a look at the menu.
III. In your .Xdefaults put something like
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*cursorColor: lightgrey
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*saveLines: 1024
XTerm*scrollBar: true
7.5 How do I change the resolution in X-Windows?
To change the resolution hold Ctrl-Alt down and hit the keypad + or minus
keys. If you want to do it permanently, you have to edit the XF86Config
file. In the screen section there is a line that says 'virtual'. Like:
"virtual 640 480" (without the quotes, of course). edit this line to
change your virtual screen size.
7.6 How do I change the size of my virtual desktop in fvwm?
In the file system.fvwm.rc, look for the section on setting up the
virtual desktop and pager. Edit the line DeskTopSize 3x3
7.7. How do I get another X session as another user / start another X-
server?
You need to first switch to a free virtual console (see questions 4.4 /
4.5). If you are switching to the n-th virtual console (1 < n <= 6), do a
<Ctrl+Alt+Fn>. Now login to the user to want to login as. If you already
have n X servers running on your system, do 'startx -- :<n>' to get
another X server running.
A much simpler solution which you can try is to open another xterm window
and login to the other user. To do this, do an 'su - <username>'. (The
'-' is important. This means that the shell that you get is the same as a
login shell for the user.)
8. Miscellaneous
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8.1 Where I can get HOWTOs and other FAQs?
At ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/. If you are using one of the
popular distributions like RedHat or Debian or Slackware or S.u.S.E, you
will find these documents on your machine in /usr/doc. Note that some of
these distributions do not install these documents by default, so you may
have to search for the package on your cdrom and install it.
8.2 How large a drive can Linux/ext2 handle?
4000MB.
8.3 What are magic numbers?
Two answers:
1. Numbers files are recognized by: see /etc/magic, man file, man 5 magic
2. Numbers kernel structures carry: see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/
magic.txt
8.4 What does clock(8) mean?
The command clock, whose manual is in the 8th section.
8.5 What do the manual section numbers mean?
Read the Manual-Page HOWTO.
8.6 What are daemons?
Basically, "servers" for things - inetd as a net server, syslogd as a
logging server, etc. (Check the manuals of those commands). Note that
there are things "running in background" which are not processes.
(This is _not_ accurate. Get a UNIX design book for details). E.g.
caching, swapping. If, for example, the cache decided to write to the
disk, it will. If the kernel decided it's time for moving files around a
bit to lessen fragmentation, it will. BTW, do ps ax to see processes with
no controlling tty (e.g. daemons).
8.7 Where do the man pages sit?
Usually /usr/man/man[1-8], but doing echo $MANPATH can help a lot, if it
is set.
8.8 Are syscalls interrupts?
Not really. They are programmed context switches to the kernel, rather
then hardware generated context switches. Similar, yes, identical, no.
8.9 Where is the file system structure explained? (E.g., /etc - system
The file system standard, fsstnd. It is available at
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd.
8.10 Where can I find a list of all the syscalls?
/usr/man/man2
8.11 Where is the Linux FAQ?
Try the following places, or a mirror near you:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/index.html
8.12 What's the thing with all those extensions?
See the Linux-FAQ.
8.13 What other linux mailing lists are there?
Take a look at http://summer.snu.ac.kr/~djshin/linux/mail-list/
index.shtml. From there you can even subscribe to just about any linux
mailing list.
8.14 What is the maximum swap partition?
You can have multiple swap files or partitions. The max size is 128M, but
you can have multiple swap files of that size.
8.15 What does a file named "core" mean?
It is an aid to debugging. If you didn't know about it, you can probably
delete it with no adverse effect.
8.16 A file in /proc seems to be missing.
/proc is a virtual filesystem. It's created and maintained by the kernel.
The only way to "add" a file to it, is to compile the appropriate option
into the kernel.
8.17 What is the System.map file?
A file which is used for kernel debugging purposes, which says where
functions are located in the compiled kernel. If you ever get an OOPS,
this will help you file a better bug report.
9. Networking
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9.1 How do I set my machine up so that I can dial out?
This is too complex a topic to be answered here. Basically, there are two
types of protocols : SLIP and PPP. Some ISP's may support you connecting
with PPP, some will support connecting with SLIP, and some will support
both. You need to find out what your ISP supports. If you decide to use
PPP, there is a PPP-HOWTO available. For connecting with SLIP, you must
use the 'dip' program. In either case, you need to read the Serial-HOWTO
thoroughly. See answer to question 8.1 if you dont know how to get these
documents.
Note that trying to do this with an MWave modem or a Winmodem is an
excercise in frustration. They will not work with Linux (read the
Hardware-Compatibility HOWTO).
9.2 How do I dial into my machine?
Again, this is too complex a topic to explain here. Read the Serial-HOWTO
- it talks about this in detail. See answer to question 8.1 if you dont
know how to get the HOWTO.
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