Hi Charles,
Thanks for your advice and comment.
In fact I have bundles of technical documents in my possession including:-
- Configuring an Internet Firewall and Home LAN with Linux by Robert L.
Zicgler
- Armoring Linux by Lance Spitzner
- Firewall installation
- Pump-done
- Security programs
- Linux IPCHAINS-HOWTO
etc. and many others including Firewall-howto and Sendmail.howto, all
printed out. In addition, I go through the mailing lists daily and save
down all documents relating to security, firewall, servers, etc.
Unfortunately the more I read on the documents the more confusion I have.
It is not easy to find a specific answer from heaps of documents. May-be I
got long time experience on Windows environment familiar with graphic
interface and I changed to Linux in less than 4 months ago. There will be a
lot for me to learn. What I expect from the lists is some guys can give a
hint from where I can find a answer in short time, not going to the wrong
direction.
Anyhow I am very appreciated for your comment. Thanks.
Best Regards
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Resend: Web server
> Stephen
>
> I would like to explain why you are not getting a response to the messages
> you are posting to this and other lists.
>
> This and most other requests you post are too vague or broad, and show
> that you have not made any attempt to begin to find the answer yourself.
>
> If you go to the redhat website or any website mirroring the linux
> documentation project (LDP) you can search for these topics, or with a
> little amount of effort browse a table of contents to find information on
> these topics. Also if you install the howto rpm, you will have many HOWTO
> documents on your hard drive under /usr/doc/HOWTO. You can look fire
> howtos that have names that match these keywords
>
> BIG HINT /usr/doc/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO
> BIG HINT /usr/doc/HOWTO/Mail*-HOWTO
>
> or use the grep command to search for keywords in the HOWTO files.
>
> At the very least these HOWTOs will give you an rough idea of what you
> want to do, and give you pointers to other sources of information. It may
> be enough to help you without having to ask any questions at all, but
> once you have read up on the topic, feel free to ask the list more
> specific questions.
>
> I will tell you this. Enabling both of these is not like turning a
> switch. It will require you to have a basic understanding of how they
> work, and some configuration based on that understanding. And it will not
> be that way on *any* of the distributions.
>
> If I may offer one more piece of advice (unrelated to this message) -
> don't ask how to find and download other distributions, and what features
> they contain on redhat lists. Go to the website for those distributions
> and find the information there, or sign up on their email lists.
>
> I hope this helps you.
>
> charles
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