2.2 on a 9650 workgroup server

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, James Applebaum wrote:

> 1: I am not able to "see" my fast ethernet nic and am forced to use the 
> motherboard nic which is 10bt. Anyone know how I can select one or both 
> nics?

The operation of the NIC is determined by a kernel module, since we don't 
know what kind of NIC, we can;t tell you what module to load..  Search the 
newbie archives too.. i bet this has been answered before..

> 2: When I run KDL or Gnome I can only launch in 256 color... if I 
> attempt to dexter to a higher bit it fails and drops me back to a 
> command prompt... 256 is barely legible and makes the GUI useless to 
> me. I have combed the tech boards and I can't seem to locate anyone 
> else that is reporting this problem.

Argh.. X sucks.  What kind of Video Card?  Again with the search the 
newbie archives...

> 3: OK, The real reason I loaded Linux in the first place was to create 
> a more stable and faster server over the existing Appleshare IP which 
> although easy to use has not been stable for longer then 30 days at a 
> time. Now that I have the kernel installed I realize that I should have 
> installed the server apps. The instructions for apt-get are not as 
> clear (I.E. I think they assume you understand more then I obviously 
> do) to run install. The services I need are: Samba, 
> Appletalk(netatalk?), Apache(html), and mail(pop3)
> 4: Finally... can anyone recommend a reliable mirror for YellowDog? I 
> am having a heck of a time getting through on the main site (constantly 
> being rejected because of too many users)
> 

# The following will get you current
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get-dist-upgrade

# now install packages
apt-get install samba samba-client apache mod_php \ 
mod_imap imapd

Should do conflict resolution, give you a long list of packages, and 
and an option to install them Do so and and either reboot or 
individually turn on services (as root) with "/sbin/service <service> 
start"  /sbin/schkconfig <service> on will ensure the service is started 
at boot time.

Be sure to clamp down your services for security.  man tcp_wrappers and 
take a look at the Linux Network Administrators Guide and the Linux System 
Administrators Guide (availible from the Linux Documentaion project.. 
ibiblio.com should have them :)

-n
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