Linux-Setup Digest #901, Volume #19 Wed, 25 Oct 00 13:13:07 EDT
Contents:
could not find how to install Host Adapter (Marcel Verduyn)
X display slightly larger than screen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSE 7.0 Professional upgrade (Christopher W. Aiken)
Re: RedHat fails, Debian suceeds (Eric)
directaries, recompile problems ("h9923134")
Re: Mandrake 7.1 and D link DE-220 network cards (Jens)
Re: switching monitor resolution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17 ("John Horne")
Re: X display slightly larger than screen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: directaries, recompile problems (Lew Pitcher)
Dual Boot with Scovery Flash Disk and Hard Disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
could not find how to install Host Adapter (Marcel Verduyn)
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (Jan Johansson)
Re: directaries, recompile problems (Colin Watson)
Re: Check this out!!! (Matthew Lybanon)
Problems Installing RH7 ("Martin Malek")
.htaccess use with Apache (Andy Stirpe)
RH Linux 7 and Abit VT6X4 board ("Binh Nguyen")
Redhat 7.0 kernel compilation problems with PIII coppermine (Andrzej Nowak)
Re: X386 as Firewall (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: limiting transfer rates thru firewall (Colin Watson)
ISP access ("Binh Nguyen")
ISP access ("Binh Nguyen")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcel Verduyn)
Subject: could not find how to install Host Adapter
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:18:17 GMT
Hello,
I have succesfully installed Linux RedHat 6. But unfortunately during
booting my PCI SCSI-II Host Adapter is not recognized. It is CI-2520
Fast/2560 Ultra. What can I do to make it work (and hence support
my 2 SCSI-CDROMs and ZIP) ?
Thanks for your help !
Marcel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X display slightly larger than screen
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:05:28 GMT
Just installed Redhat 7.0 on a system with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP and a
Hitachi CM771 19" monitor. The anaconda installation set me up with a
1600x1200 that is gorgeous. Much crisper than the 1280x1024 on my ATI
Mach 64 and 17" Trinitron machine.
However, when I use something like xv that opens windows on the screen,
the title bar of the windows is often above the top of the display area
and off the screen. So I can't simply grab the title bar to move the
window around (I need to press the ALT key while grabbing the window to
move it). On my other machine with the 1280x1024 display, xv always
put the windows so the title bar is right at the top of the display, or
somewhere lower on the screen, but never off the screen.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the video adapter and monitor
cannot really display exactly 1280x1024, so the modeline had to be
modified slightly to display a slightly smaller image. But I can't
remember where I read that, or if I had modified the 1280x1024 modeline
to be slightly smaller than the an actual 1280x1024...
I tried using xvidtune to make the display shorter vertically, but that
didn't seem to fix it.
How can I fix the problem?
--
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Bill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken)
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 Professional upgrade
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:30:42 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:43:39 GMT, Gary Watson wrote:
->Has anyone installed it on a running SuSE 6.x system. And if so what problems
->did they have.
->
As far as I could see, SuSE 7.0 Prof. Upgrade is the
whole SuSE O/S w/o all the manuals. I did a disk whipe
and re install of SuSE 7.0 prof. upgrade with only one
problem. YAST2 would not run with my external modem
plugged in. Unplug the modem, install, plug modem back in.
Up and running w/o any problems.
--
---
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: SuSE Professional Linux 7.0
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat fails, Debian suceeds
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:35:38 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Just a suggestion, but have you tried a bootloader _besides_ LILO? I am
> under the understanding that some of the other loaders, like grub, or gag &
> XOSL (both require a DOS partition), you can get around any limitations of
> LILO.
NoNoNoNo!!
There's NO problem with LILO
I must have repeated this message at least 20 times already and I
suppose I will have to answer this at least another 20 times....
PC BIOS'es can only deal with 1024 cylinders and since addresses on disc
are numbered in heads/cylinders/sectors you will eventually hit a limit.
This limit is originated from the BIOS. (nowadays a newer LILO exists
(lilo 21.4.3 and larger) that use the new int13 extensions, which enable
access from beyond cyl. 1024)
You cannot boot anything from beyond cyl. 1024, unless your bootloader
uses these int13 extensions (try installing windows98 in a partition
that lies entirely above cyl. 1024, it will NOT boot!)
So upgrade LILO (only usefull if your BIOS understands the int13
extensions, and yes it's still relatively new, so your BIOS may not
support it) or use another bootloader that nows these calls. The easiest
solution is though to make sure that your kernel image is below cyl.
1024 (as you described) That way you will NEVER have a problem with
these addressing issues. Once your OS is up, (be it windows or linux, or
whatever else) you will no longer have a problem with this limit.
Eric
> Otherwise, I'd suggest putting a real small (5-10 MB) partition at the
> beginning of the hard drive, and mount it as /boot. Then things should work
> nicely.
>
> Monte
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From: "h9923134" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: directaries, recompile problems
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:24:51 +0800
1.what is the functions of these directaries?
- /
- /usr
- /usr/local
- /home
2.how to recompile the kernel ?
thanks
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From: Jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 and D link DE-220 network cards
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:46:42 GMT
"CMA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is the ne module installed ?
yes
>are all the packages for ethernet networking installed ?
What would I be looking for ?
>check your card with the dlink 'diag' on the setup disk...
I did, that is how I set up no pnp,IRQ and I/O address.
Thanks for your help !
Jens
>Jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Ok, I give up - I spent the better part of 5 hours screwing around
>> trying to get Linux to recognize the DE220 card with no luck.
>> I read piles of how-to's and checked the deja archives (seems like
>> these cards give everyone problems) but no go.
>>
>> This is my first Linux step and I just installed the thing so anything
>> 'obvious' isn't really obvious .....
>>
>> Here is what I have done:
>> I have disabled PNP on the DE220 and set i/o (300) and irq (12).
>> I have disabled the pnp bios on the computer
>> I have edited the /etc/conf.modules file and appended two lines as
>> below:
>> alias eth0 ne
>> options ne io=0x300 irq=12
>>
>> I re-booted (btw, every once in a while my mouse becomes almost stuck
>> when I reboot or get to the login screen - any ideas ?)
>>
>> When I run linuxconf and enable the first network adapter and set it
>> to DHCP I get a message saying the device isn't there.
>> When I run th ehardware setup (drakeconf ??) I do not show a network
>> card
>>
>> When I run lsmod I do not see the ne module loaded
>> if I do a modprobe eth0 and then another lsmod I see the ne module
>> unused but module 8390 is used by ne ?????
>>
>> If I run ifconfig eth0 I see the right i/o, irq and it's seeing the
>> mac address.
>>
>> I am totaling in the dark as to what to try next. I haven't got a clue
>> what I am doing under Linux.
>>
>> HEEEEEEELLLLPPPPPP !!!!!!! <ripping out my hair>
>>
>> Jens
>>
>> PS.: while I am at this, I use @home and run that into a win2k server
>> machine with internet sharing turned on. From reading some of the
>> comments in deja, it appears that I can't use the built-in internet
>> sharing of win2k (nat router) to give the Linux box access to the
>> internet. Is this true ???? Why would win2k care ?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: switching monitor resolution
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:49:48 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:05:54 -0400, Jack Timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Just installed 7.0 Redhat and when I "startx" KDE comes up in a higher
>res than I want. I looked through the various menu's in KDE but was
>unable to locate the utility to change it. I read through the Redhat web
>site and it looks like I can run linuxconf from the command line but I
>was unable to find it last night, I'll try again tonight (it's my home
>machine).
The X resolution is not kde stuff, it's configured in your /etc/XF86Config
file. Try press Ctrl-Alt +/- (the plus and minus keys on the numerical
keypad). That should skip through the available resolutions. Read the X
documentation to learn how to adjust it for your needs.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:48:32 +0100
In article <8t6mp3$7ks$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes when I select the 2.2.17 kernel from the lilo boot menu it boots up
> ok. The 2.4 starts off ok but throws up the superblock error when it
> tries to mount the root disk.
>
Well, I've just downloaded the 2.4.0-test9 kernel and built it. When I
try and boot it up (via lilo) it gets a very little way and then I get an OOPS -
something about 'unable to
dereference NULL pointer in kernel'. Obviously something amiss there -
heck it is a 'test' version :-) I'll see about that later.
Another thought however is where is your boot partition? Initially I was
trying to boot (i.e. where /boot is located) from the end of a 6GB disk -
needless to say it didn't like that. I have moved everything to a
separate small boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders. The
partition is about 30MB or so - but it only uses 5 or 6.
Thoguht number 2 - if you have the disk space, can you move/rebuild the
2.4.0 partition - do you have everything on one root partition? - onto a different
disk or different part of the disk, and
try and boot off that?
John.
--
========================================================================
John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP key available from public key servers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X display slightly larger than screen
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:52:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:05:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>However, when I use something like xv that opens windows on the screen,
>the title bar of the windows is often above the top of the display area
>and off the screen. So I can't simply grab the title bar to move the
>window around (I need to press the ALT key while grabbing the window to
>move it). On my other machine with the 1280x1024 display, xv always
>put the windows so the title bar is right at the top of the display, or
>somewhere lower on the screen, but never off the screen.
I think you have to adjust your monitor hardware settings for that
resolution. There should be some controls at the monitor to adjust screen
size, position and more.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: directaries, recompile problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:09:36 GMT
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:24:51 +0800, "h9923134" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>1.what is the functions of these directaries?
- / is the base (root) of your directory tree
- /usr holds stuff that users might use (rather than
stuff that root alone would use)
- /usr/local holds stuff that users of your particular system
might use; stuff that other systems might not have
- /home directory base for individual user's private
directorys
>
>2.how to recompile the kernel ?
Read Kernel Howto (at http://www.linuxdoc.org/)
Read README files in /usr/src/linux
cd /usr/src/linux
make config
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
>thanks
>
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Dual Boot with Scovery Flash Disk and Hard Disk
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:06:47 GMT
Greetings,
I recently bought a Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 off of Egghead's
auction site. It's an fabulously kewl machine, by the way...
Out of the box, it boots off a 16Meg flash disk. You can interrupt the
normal boot process and boot from a real hard drive, at least that is
what the menu option says.
I have added a CDROM drive and a hard drive to the box, and I was
hoping to retain the 16Meg flash drive and optionally be able to boot
off the hard drive using that boot up menu option. Unfortunately, the
docs do not specify how it is supposed to be set up. I've tried
probably every combination of master, slave, single, cable select,
different IDE channels, etc, but I cannot get this to work. It doesn't
seem to help much that the flash drive's master/slave jumper settings
seem to be labeled incorrectly. When it is on Slave, it gets detected
as a Master drive...
When both drives are detected by the BIOS, nothing boots.
Could it be the cable? I'm using a 40-pin IDE cable that is labeled as
'XL' because on a normal length IDE cable, there isn't enough space
between the master and slave connectors to be able to connect a hard
drive and the flash drive on the same IDE channel. The flash drive was
originally connected with a short 40-pin IDE cable with only one drive
connector.
Has anyone ever got this to work? I really would like to be able to use
the Flash Drive.
-ehobz
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcel Verduyn)
Subject: could not find how to install Host Adapter
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:50:40 GMT
Hello,
I have succesfully installed Linux RedHat 6. But unfortunately during
booting my PCI SCSI-II Host Adapter is not recognized. It is CI-2520
Fast/2560 Ultra. What can I do to make it work (and hence support
my 2 SCSI-CDROMs and ZIP) ?
Thanks for your help !
Marcel
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:06:08 GMT
>Undetectable, clean, and a good network citizen as well.
Should an unauthorized service run in a network enviroment. Yes or No?
No? I dint think so.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: directaries, recompile problems
Date: 25 Oct 2000 16:39:46 GMT
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:24:51 +0800, "h9923134" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>1.what is the functions of these directaries?
>
> - / is the base (root) of your directory tree
> - /usr holds stuff that users might use (rather than
> stuff that root alone would use)
That's a slightly unusual definition. The origin of the two names is
systems that had a small root tape and a large user tape; however, now /
is supposed to contain enough to boot the system, allow recovery from
damage, allow restoration from backups, and store system-specific
configuration (i.e. /etc). It may well be quite small. /usr contains
shareable, read-only data, and its structure essentially parallels that
of / but for being bigger. (In fact, the experimental Debian GNU/Hurd
distribution, unlike normal Debian GNU/Linux, symlinks /usr to /.)
/bin contains programs that users will certainly use, and /usr/sbin
contains programs that only the system administrator is likely to use,
so the definition above seems flawed. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
has more information (can't find a URL at the moment - what's happened
to www.pathname.com?).
> - /usr/local holds stuff that users of your particular system
> might use; stuff that other systems might not have
Often distributions set /usr/local aside as a "safe" directory hierarchy
that their package system will never touch, and so is safe for local
changes.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what
mnemonic means, you've got a problem." - perlstyle(1p)
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From: Matthew Lybanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Check this out!!!
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:46:01 -0500
Anybody who is thinking of participating in this scam should take a look
at this website first:
http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
Since the U.S. Postal service gets into the act (you are supposed to
mail something, right?), this is relevant. The following quotation from
that site is particularly relevant:
"Do not be fooled if the chain letter is used to sell inexpensive
reports on credit, mail order sales, mailing lists, or other topics. The
primary purpose is to take your money, not to sell information.
"Selling" a product does not ensure legality. Be doubly suspicious if
there's a claim that the U.S. Postal Service or U.S. Postal Inspection
Service has declared the letter legal. This is said only to mislead you.
Neither the Postal Service nor Postal Inspectors give prior approval to
any chain letter."
Does this scheme somehow create money? No? But everybody who
participates gets out more than they put in. Everybody. Right!
People who play a state lottery know that, in order for one person to
win a million dollars, a million other people have to lose their
dollars. The numbers are different here, but the principle is the same.
Why do you suppose this individual is telling you how YOU can get
rich? Out of the goodness of his heart?
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From: "Martin Malek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems Installing RH7
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:43:49 GMT
Hi. When I try to install RH7 it keeps crashing. It looks for the scsi card
finds it but then i get something like
exec: i/o and something about not being able to unmount. I had 6.0
installed before without any problems whatsoever. Has anyone else
encountered this problem. (the cd i installed from was bought from
cheapbytes.com)
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From: Andy Stirpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: .htaccess use with Apache
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:49:06 GMT
Hi everyone
Does anyone know the reason why a .htaccess file would not be read when
accessing a web page which is being run on an Apache server (Redhat v6.1
& Apache v1.3)? As far as I know everything is setup correctly (using
the htaccess script to create the .htpasswd file which is placed in the
location specified and .htaccess is specified as the "AccessFileName" in
the srm.conf file).
Any guidence or help would be greatly appreciated....Thanx
Andy
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From: "Binh Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: RH Linux 7 and Abit VT6X4 board
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:46:01 -0700
Hello,
Does anyone know whether RedHat Linux 7.0 works with Abit motherboard
VT6X4's built-in sound card? ww.redhat.com says they are compatible. When
I did sndconfig, it detected I had Via82cxxx pci sound card and then it hung
on me.
Please cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks alot,
Binh
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From: Andrzej Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7.0 kernel compilation problems with PIII coppermine
Date: 25 Oct 2000 16:52:17 GMT
I set up Redhat Linux 7.0 (guiness) on a PIII coppermine 650MHz
machine. However it seems impossible to compile ANY kernel version
on it (I tried 2.2.16 2.2.17 2.2.16-22 2.2.14).
Each time I change anything in the kernel configuration I get different
errors and warnings (lots of them) on different files,
looking just like there was a lot of bugs in the kernel code.
These kernels compile without problems on a PII233. Is this a common
problem, and how should I start dealing with it?
I do the compilation the 'usual' way: make menuconfig
make dep, make bzImage, make module, make modules install
I also tried make clean between make dep and make bzImage.
still nothing.
+e [epsilon]
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X386 as Firewall
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:49:56 -0400
A 486/66 can keep up with a T1 line or 10 Mb/s ethernet. But it is
the ISA bus that is the limiting factor here, not the processor, per
se. The 386 may or may not slow down your network, depending on what
the various throughputs are and how extensive your firewall software
is. Memory is somewhat the same story; you are in the grey area with
only 8 MB. Then there is processor speed (386s were, what, about 12 MHz
to 40 MHz?) It's worth a try if you already have the machine. Most of
what you'd need to do to a 386, you'd have to do to a faster machine
anyway. On the other hand, people aren't even bidding on 486s much as
companies get rid of them around here, so you may be able to pick up one
really cheap.
Raj wrote:
>
> ... am trying to setup a X386 with 8Mb of RAM as a firewall... I'm
> wondering now, however, if that's such a good idea... Would it
> noticeably decrease my precious bandwidth to have a X386 as opposed to a
> X486 or low-grade pentium? Does CPU & Memory really make that much of a
> difference? Whatever I use would be to support a small home network
> that will eventually be running a low volume web-server... I currently
> have DSL (hence the need for a firewall ASAP) ....
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Raj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: limiting transfer rates thru firewall
Date: 25 Oct 2000 16:45:17 GMT
stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[I think you meant comp.os.linux.network*ing* ...]
>I use DHCPD to assign local ips to computer behind the firewall.
>What I would also like to add is (speed/transfer rates) limitation to
>some of the nodes in the intranet that use masqurading to the internet.
>For instance, a node on the intranet 192.168.0.56 needs to be limited to
>10k/sec when its packets are masquraded to the internet.
On reasonably modern Linux kernels (2.1.99 and greater, I believe), you
can use the quality of service features to do traffic control like this.
You'll need the iproute2 package and lots of patience. See
<URL:http://defiant.coinet.com/iproute2/> (I only just found this by a
search on Google, but it has all the references that I've been using for
the last couple of months).
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And I forgot the next verse / Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The music sheet's so hard to find / What are the words? Oh nevermind"
- "Smells Like Nirvana", Weird Al
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From: "Binh Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISP access
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:54:46 -0700
Hello,
I setup an ISP as root. When a user (non-root) used it, it asked for
password. How a root can grant the isp dialup access to users?
Thanks,
Binh
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From: "Binh Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISP access
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:54:46 -0700
Hello,
I setup an ISP as root. When a user (non-root) used it, it asked for
password. How a root can grant the isp dialup access to users?
Thanks,
Binh
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