--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00017 Date: 12/23/97 From: PAWEL KRAWCZYK Time: 12:34pm \/To: CHUMA AGBODIKE (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: RADIUS From: Pawel Krawczyk Chuma Agbodike wrote: > However I was refering to Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS). > I wonder how it differs from PAP or CHAP ??? Radius is not an alternative for PAP and CHAP - it's authentication server using those protocols (and more). Network access server (e.g. CISCO or Portmaster) queries Radius server about username and password received from user and gets reply whether the password is valid or not. You can find Radius server for Linux on www.livingstone.com. Alternative is Cisco's TACACS+ protocols (ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/pub/tac_plus/) --- ifmail v.2.12 * Origin: Vavel Underground (2:486/23@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00018 Date: 12/22/97 From: JAMES VAHN Time: 06:18pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: character sets Does anyone know how to make the alternate character set the default? Plain text mode, not X. It's the old US-DOS set, the IBM graphic set: echo "(K" --- ifmail-tx (i386 Linux) * Origin: jvahn@short.circuit.com (1:346/15.1@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00019 Date: 12/23/97 From: WARREN HRACH Time: 07:53am \/To: BRIAN WARNER (Read 6 times) Subj: Linux BBS Software Brian Warner said on LINUX at 19th of December 1997: > Hello everyone! > I was just wondering what is considered the most powerful but fairly > easy to use bbs software for linux? i MUST be front end mailer compatible.. > basically a Remote Access for linux (well something similar).. > Thanks! > Brian Warner > --- > (1:229/105) Brian, I have been running BBBS/L on my Linux system for over 4 months and find it very solid. Fairly easy to install and includes the front end mailer, tosser all in one package and runs in its own dir. It can have multi-lines and chat features if you want. I have a 2 line system and use second node for reading replying to mail. It includes everything RA can do except the menu system is confusing at first but just doing ? tells all. Complete docs included. Lots of good support available also. The file to get is 'bbbs_l.zip' 1.06 meg. I have in my pub dir for downloading or you can get from 'ftp.bbbs.net'. I dont have freq set up yet. The initial install gets you a trial version that limits callers to 30 min./day. Registration for 2 node version is $60 US. I tried Lora but it kept crashing and never did get help to solve it. There are 1 or 2 others but I am not sure they include Fido capability. Hope this helps. Warren +---------------------------------------------+ | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 | | warren@ocnbeach.maximumaccess.com | | Linux BBBS and UUCP on an AMD K5 | | Fido BBS at (619) 224-4878 | +---------------------------------------------+ --- BBBS/L v3.33 How * Origin: Ocean Beach Linux BBBS (619)224-4878 (1:202/745) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00020 Date: 12/23/97 From: LODEWIJK VOGE Time: 01:53pm \/To: WAYNE FALLEN (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: I'm new to Linux and need some advic13:53:0612/23/97 From: lodewijk@reddwarf.xs4all.nl (Lodewijk Voge) Wayne Fallen wrote: > I am a home user with a single computer, a Pentium Pro 200 (Gateway > 2000) IDE/PCI no SCSI on board(yet). nice.. > Currently I run Windows 95 and wish to keep it for a while. what?? you're running Win95 on a PPro ? you know PPro's suck on 16bit code, right? half of Win95 is 16bit. > I bought another HDD, 4Gig which I had planned for Linux to live on. wow, plenty of room. > What I want to do is have Linux control my system. What would be the best > way to do this? install it. > How do I install Linux directly to the new HDD - I thought it best if I > installed the HDD as the Primary Master and kept the original HDD as the > Primary Slave, how would I do this when I will be installing Linux from > the CD-ROM? why? just pop in the drive and boot de redhat disk. no need for reshuffling or anything. --- ifmail v.2.11 * Origin: New England Business Services LLC (1:141/635@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00021 Date: 12/23/97 From: DAVID DRUMMOND Time: 03:57am \/To: PER LUNDBERG (Read 6 times) Subj: Upgrades Per, at 18:53 on Dec 19 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ... DD>> It is? PL> Well, it depends on how you define "multi-user". It supports PL> multiple users, but not at the same time.. Aaah - as DOS does. PL> But who cares? This is the _LINUX_ echo. :-) too true :-) --- Msgedsq/2 3.10 * Origin: The JabberWOCky +61 7 3868 1597 (3:640/305) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00022 Date: 12/23/97 From: RONNIE GIBSON Time: 03:09pm \/To: CLEMENS ANHUTH (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Installing from CDRom -=> Quoting Clemens Anhuth to Robert Wilkinson <=- CA> oh, btw, slackware ist considered the "inferior" distribution by many CA> people, maybe for some reason. I don't know why. I've had the choice several times and have always opted for slackware. It seems to be the most "generic" and to me anarchiving a *tgz file and following the included docs is simplier than fooling around with a rpm or a deb file. The only time I've been totally frustrated with slackware is in attempting to go from kernel 1.2.13 to 2.0.0 Email to Ronnie Gibson At rgibson@ix.netcom.com ... ########## <-- Scratch here to reveal prize.... ___ Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/M 10 * Origin: * PC-Help! BBS * Lutz Fl. 813-949-6588 1:377/35 28.8 v.34 (1:377/35) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00023 Date: 12/23/97 From: RONNIE GIBSON Time: 03:18pm \/To: MICHAEL KARCHER (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Mini-Linux and TVGA90 -=> Quoting Michael Karcher to Lona Carter <=- MK> Of couse you have to create your /etc/XF86Config with the program MK> called xf86config before you can use X. I don't rember, wether VGA MK> monitor is directly selectable in XF86Config, but its specs are: MK> HSync 31.5 kHz, VSync 60 Hz and 70 Hz. For some reason I get nothing but 8 bit color. I've a Tseng EW32i hercules card w/2 megs ram and have selected screens in xf86config. But if I modify xinit or just do a startx - --bpp 16 it bombs and tells me no screens are defined??? Email to Ronnie Gibson At rgibson@ix.netcom.com ... Vodka + milk of magnesia: Phillips screwdriver ___ Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/M 10 * Origin: * PC-Help! BBS * Lutz Fl. 813-949-6588 1:377/35 28.8 v.34 (1:377/35) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGT00024 Date: 12/23/97 From: WILLIE MCKEMIE Time: 07:53am \/To: KEN REAVERSON (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: uhm, help. :) 23-Dec-1997 07:53 Hi Ken, Greetings! WM>> Let me suggest that you try DOSLinux WM>> (ftp://wauug.erols.com/pub/people/kent-robotti/doslinux). It has WM>> the following attributes: Modest size, about 12MB download, 30+MB WM>> installed Coexists with DOS, uses part of an existing DOS WM>> partition. Configured for internet use through an ISP. KR> :) I don't need it to coexist with DOS, I just need to be able to KR> install it from a FAT16 partition. I have a seperate boot partition KR> set aside for DOS and OS/2, I'm looking for Linux to replace the 95 KR> partition. As long as it'll see a FAT16 drive after installation, KR> I'm happy. All Linux distributions will mount FAT16 partitions, after they are installed. DOSLinux installs gracefully in a FAT16 partition, other distributions are best installed in EXT2 partitions. If you want to use your windoze95 partition for Linux, you will want to use Linux fdisk to set up that area as a EXT2 partition. WM>> If, after installing DOSLinux, you want to download RedHat, it is WM>> a fairly simple matter to download it into Linux file space while WM>> runnin DOSLinux. No filename problem that way. KR> If that'll be the easiest way for me to get redhat KR> installed, that's what I'll have to do. Uhm, Linux filespace? :) Well, I don't know for sure that this is the EASIEST way to do it, but I'm pretty sure that it will work. After you get DOSLinux up and online to your ISP, you will have to find a place to put the FTPed archive files. I suggest making and using a small second EXT2 partition which can be mounted both under DOSLinux and the FTPed RedHat bootstrap/installation program. You can use fdisk while running DOSLinux to configure that partition. Here is some detail on the first part of the process: FTP the DOSLinux readme from the above URL; read it, it will tell you what other files to download. FTP the appropriate files; should take about an hour. Unpack and install DOSLinux per instructions; should take only a few minutes. Boot Linux; set up your PPP configuration for your ISP. Get online to your ISP and test lynx. When all that works (maybe one or two hours), run fdisk to setup the the download ext2 partition. Make a mount point for the partition (mkdir / or use mc). mount /dev/hd<1,2,3> /; example : mkdir /down mount /dev/hdb2 /down assuming that you made the download directory as the second partition of your second IDE drive. I'm not sure, but you may have to do something to format that partition before you mount it. Then, get online to your ISP and use lynx to FTP RedHat into /down, or what ever name you chose. Good luck! Willie NetMail: 1:382/92.8 EMail: McKemie@infomail.com --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Terminate point system (1:382/92.8)