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CONFIGURING SLACKWARE LINUX FOR ACCESS TO DEMON INTERNET
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1A Introduction
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Most of this guide has been tested on Slackware 3.0, 2.3, 2.2 and 2.1.
There are earlier versions for Slackware 2.0 and 1.2. It describes
dial-up SLIP/PPP access to Demon Internet, with a static IP address,
defined host name and SMTP mail delivery (not PoP).
There are four packages:
* The BASE package explains how to configure Slackware Linux on a single
machine, connected to the Internet via dial-up serial line to Demon
Internet. It configures basic networking and e-mail.
* The CNEWS package describes how to obtain Usenet news using C News and
slurp as news transport agents, and nn or tin as news reader.
* The INN package explains how to use INN for Usenet news, instead of
C News. INN is a more modern news transport agent than C News and is
gaining in popularity. You must choose to install either C News or
INN, but not both. They will not work together.
* The BIND package describes how to run a simple (optional) cache-only
name server using the named daemon.
You can run the unpack script to extract the files from each package
you ask for. It will take care to preserve the correct ownership and
permission for each file. Please run it as root to allow it to do this.
Start with the README in the BASE package. If you want Usenet news,
continue with the README in either the CNEWS package or the INN package.
If you want to run a cache-only name server, follow the README in the
BIND package.
This is not an installation manual so it does not give details of how to
install Slackware Linux and its packages. It does give details of how
to configure an installation for Internet access. It describes just one
way of doing this. There are many alternatives, and further things that
can be done to run the machine in the ways that suit you best. Following
the READMEs should result in a basic but fully functional system. After
that it's over to you.
1B Further documentation
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Lists are available of some of the problems with Slackware 2.2 and
later, and the simple fixes available. They are found on ftp.netcom.com
in /pub/ze/zenon/linux/Slackware2Fixes and Slackware3Fixes. For a newer
source see http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/programs/slackware-fixes/
A very fine reference work is the Linux Network Administrators' Guide by
Olaf Kirch. I recommend this highly. It may be found on sunsite.unc.edu
in directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP/network-guide, and on other good Linux
ftp sites. It is now also available as an O'Reilly book.
The NET-2-HOWTO (also covering NET-3) is in /usr/doc/faq/howto in this
distribution, with the Mail-HOWTO, News-HOWTO and a lot of other very
useful documents. I assume here that you have installed the F series
disks. There is much good information there.
For further information, available documentation on Linux is listed in
/pub/doc/os/linux.txt on ftp.demon.co.uk.
1C Acknowledgments
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I have included in this package a binary of the program slurp 1.10 by
Stephen Hebditch (steveh@tqmcomms.co.uk). Thanks are due to him. The
source is available by ftp from ftp.demon.co.uk in /pub/news/slurp.
A number of people provided examples, criticism and other help. They
include ivan@dreamtim.demon.co.uk, karl@borg.demon.co.uk,
martin@pandora.demon.co.uk, richard@stonix.demon.co.uk & jman@home.org.
My thanks go to them and to everyone else who has contributed.
1D Copyright, errors and disclaimer
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The INN package and unpack script are copyright 1995 Ivan A. Beveridge.
Please read and respect his distribution policy.
The remaining material here is copyright 1994-6 John A. Phillips.
Reproduction and distribution of complete and unedited copies is allowed
without prior permission of the author. You may quote short sections
without asking.
Error reports are welcome, as are suggestions for improvement. Please
send them to john@linux.demon.co.uk.
THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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