[newbie] Question about directory and file permissions

[E Estes]

I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they
have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this
would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the
User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to
what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather
learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped.

Thanks in advance if you can help,
Mithrilhall

=Mithrilhall=
Linux - Mandrake 8.1
AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz
 File Server
FTP Server
   Web Server
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[newbie] Hotline

[E Estes]

I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with the program hotline. I was wondering
if there was a Linux version of this available for download? I did a search
online and didn't find anything.


=Mithrilhall=
Linux - Mandrake 8.1
AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz
 File Server
FTP Server
   Web Server
http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net
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[newbie] Question on floppy

[E Estes]

Everytime I try to mount the floppy drive by 
clicking on the drive icon onthe desktop it goes toopen the drive 
andthen displays and error. The error isas 
follows:"Couldnot read /" 

I have no clue whatthe problemis. Any 
help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mithrilhall

[newbie] Floppy drive question........

[E Estes]

I did a fix to get myfloppy 
driveworking. NowI havejust one more questionabout it. 
When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only 
the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it 
just brings up the same files that were on the first 
disk.

[newbie] Internet Explorer

[E Estes]

Ihave seen screenshotsof people 
running this on linux and was wondering where I could find it. 
Any and all help would be appreciated.

[newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0

[E Estes]

I downloaded a file "php-4.0.6.tar.gz" and I opened 
it with Archiver and extracted it to a directory "PHP". I tried doing the 
./configure and I got errors. Here is what happened:

[root@192 PHP]# ./configureloading cache 
./configure.cachechecking for a BSD compatible 
install.../usr/bin/install -cchecking whether make sets ${MAKE}... 
nochecking for working aclocal... missingchecking for working 
autoconf... missingchecking for working automake... 
missingchecking for working autoheader... missingchecking for working 
makeinfo... foundchecking whether to enable maintainer-specific 
portions of Makefiles... nochecking host system 
type...i586-pc-linux-gnuoldldchecking for gawk... gawkchecking for 
bison... nochecking for byacc... noconfigure: warning: You will 
need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP parsers.checking for gcc... 
nochecking for cc...noconfigure: error: no acceptable cc found 
in $PATH[root@192 PHP]#

If I try doing the make or make export 
I get nothing but:

bash: make: command not found

I'm at a loss here. I thought Mandrake 
shipped with php installed but I think I'm wrong. I've 
been trying to install this on and off for ove 2 weeks and I have 
gotten no where. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks

[newbie] Question about installing a .tar.gz file

[E Estes]

I'm really new to linux and Ihave no 
clue what todo with these types offiles. 
Iright-clickedand opened it with "Archiver" and extracted it 
to a directory I made but after that point I'm simply 
stumped.

Any and all help would be greatly 
appreciated.

[newbie] Ftp server

[E Estes]

Could anyone tell me where I can find the 
information on setting up and configuring an ftp server. I thought one was 
installed by default in Mandrake but I could be wrong. If there is one 
installed by defaultcould someone point me to where I can find 
it.

Thanks in advance