Re: books on debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 02:12, dircha wrote: Fernando Cardenas wrote: I am still new to linux, can somebody suggest me books on debian? Thanks. Have you checked the Debian Documentation page [1] yet? There are very few Debian-specific books - and I know of none more useful than what is

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: IIRC: lsof /dev/cdrom or fuser /dev/cdrom and then doing a kill -s 9 PID of process accessing /dev/cdrom as root helps here. Not being sure whether that's sane, safe, whatever. But it often helps here. I often find it is because I

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:14, David Fokkema wrote: If you are running Gnome you could try something like gksu /etc/init.d/fam stop umount the cd followed by gksu /etc/init.d/fam start My brother has problems unmounting his zip drive. It is _always_ famd which is blocking things.

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 09:11, Ogya Chief wrote: It failed with the message NO DIALTONE. I also tried with pppconfig and I got the same message. That's a big clue. Try plugging a 'phone into your wall socket and try dialling out. Did you hear a dial tone? If that works try plugging in your

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:04, Katipo wrote: If you don't have a dial tone, nothing will dial out, it doesn't matter what string you attach to it, you've got a dead line. You have to attend to that variable before you can go any further with any sort of analysis. Not true! The dial tone is

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:00, Ogya Chief wrote: I will check the modem documentation to see what is required. As an example here is the pertinent line for one of my modems cat /etc/wvdial.conf | grep X3 Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 X3 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 But check your modem manual your settings

Re: blocking hosts

2004-05-18 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:59, David Cunningham wrote: Not really. This is helpful but will only block access to those services that are compiled against tcp wrappers. To block all access you can use iptables or add a blocked route to your routing table. For example: route add -net