IP masqing and caching

2000-10-12 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I have searched the HOWTOs but can't seem to find out how to set up my firewall which is using IP masquerading to save cache, is this even possible? Thanks, Ian

Funny login comment...

2000-09-06 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, just after I managed to get my cable modem working under linux I noticed some funny things started happening to my computer. For example, when I login it gives me the message: "PAM_unix[390]: (login) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)" and then after the login message it says: "logi

Re: Potato on a laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Triggs; Ian
all it without doing the full upgrade... > > > > At 04:38 PM 8/30/2000 +1100, Triggs; Ian wrote: > >Hi, I recently succesfully installed potato on my Toshiba Satellite > >2100CDS laptop. All is working fine, in fact, it was the easiest install > >of Linux I have ever

Potato on a laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I recently succesfully installed potato on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS laptop. All is working fine, in fact, it was the easiest install of Linux I have ever done, out of any distributions, plus I was installing it over ftp, with a PCMCIA card, through a wingate proxy. Now I want to configure

Re: KDE on debian

2000-08-21 Thread Triggs; Ian
Isn't kde.tdyc.com only for KDE2 packages?

KDE on debian

2000-08-21 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I am dying to use to latest stable release of KDE on potato. Can anyone suggest a place where I can find the deb packages I need?? Also while I'm here I am looking for a clone of pine for use on debian. I'm using nano instead of pico, is there a similar program for mail?? Thanx in advance,

Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread Triggs; Ian
I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the more prompt which says the percentage at the bottom changes back to readable characters and

DHCP and 2 cards

2000-07-23 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I have just set my cable modem up under linux and am trying to get a firewall up and running. My local network traffic is handled on eth0 and the cable modem traffic is using eth1. Is there any way I can stop DHCP from assigning an IP address to both cards? I only want to get an IP address f

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
This could be it, as I have a cable modem connected straight into my hub, and another computer on the network being the firewall, however it only has one card so it is using the one ethernet card for both the cable modem and the LAN. On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > About telnet: It CO

telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login prompt. Wh

telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login prompt. Wh

Pine question

2000-05-11 Thread Triggs; Ian
Whenever my mail file gets too large, my mail administrator moves all the mail in my inbox to ~/Mail/huge.mail. Is it possible to set up pine 4.21 so that i can read huge.mail and use it as another mail folder? thanx ian