Newbie questions

[Brian-74-454]

I just got my Linux boxes working at home in the past few weeks. I do have a few questions if possible...

0) I'm using one as a gateway to my dsl connection (firewall/ip masquerading)... I'm using roaring penguin to hook up. There is an option to start the connection at boot time so you don't have to be root to do it... But, I can't do it b/c I have to tell my machine to remove the default route for my dsl connection to work. Is there a way to tell linux to never add a default route to route?

1) I'm using enlightenment on the machine I use the most. What can I do to get a program (gkrellm) to start up automatically every time I start E?

2) What on earth do I have to do to get a linux machine to accept telnet? I'd like to be able to telnet into my gateway (because I don't keep a monitor on it) so that I can touch it if I have to... I try to telnet to it using it's IP addy and it doesn't like it... The connection never gets established. :mad:

3) Also, on one of the machines, when I tell it to boot Linux (win2k/RH dual boot), occasionally it will say something (I forgot the acutaly wording) about a "block failure on 0xAE" or something similar. I'm not positive that is the exact phrase or hex address... But it happens right at the beginning of boot strapping (sometimes).


Any help would be grealy appreciated

[Linuxcool]

Q1. I believe there is a menu option called ' Remember '. Click on gkrellm and select it from the menu and you can set it to start gkrellm up when enlightenment does. To get gkrellm to remember where to come up on the screen at start up, you'll have to go to gkrellm's configration menu and select to come back up where it was when it was shutdown. Don't bother using the option in ' Remember ' to get gkrellm to remember where it was on the screen at shutdown, it doesn't work with it.

[ 27 September 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]

[Hena]

Q2)
1. Try whether you can log in using loopback. If you can't it's probably configured wrong or, not sure about this part, superserver is configured wrong.

2. Check your inetd/xinetd.

3. Check your tcp-wrappers.

4. Check your firewall.

[Bud Gordon]

Just another newbie with an thought. Have you thought of SSH instead of telnet? You probably don't want the rest of the world to be able to see your session in plain text! I know that this does not help your origional request and apologise for that, but I thought you might want to try a better tool than telnet!

Best of luck

Bud Gordon

[I Love NY]

Q2) Are you just telnetting to the ip address? It might help to include the port number (not sure about that - it shouldn't matter but it might. Default is port 23, and telnet client should know that). Also, run linuxconf (on the box you want to telnet to) to see if telnet services are running. If they aren't you can enable them.