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 -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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