Re: Another new Linux User :)

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just subscribed to the Klug message group, A little info about me...
> 
>   My name is John Van Horn, I'm located in Manistee, I'm a PC/network
> technition for Jackpine Business Centers of Ludington and Manistee. We
> are an ISP with dial in services in Reed City, Baldwin, Manistee,
> Ludington, and other locations.

I suppose that means you won't be attending meetings every week?  ;{)

>   I started looking at Linux about 4 months ago to possibly use as an on
> premise machine for a subscriber web page server, Proxy server or mail
> server. I purchase RH Linux and have it and apache up and running on an
> old P54 /100 Mhz with 32 Megs of ram and  about 3 Gigs of HD.

Sounds good enough for Linux.

>  Boy... Where do I start with the questions :)
> 
>  I have been RTM (Reading the manual) but don't seem to see any straight
> foreward answers on:
> 
>     Setting up web page space for a user?   This seems to be half a
> process handled by Linux and half handled by Apache. I probably don't
> understand the nomenclature well enough to realize I'm looking at the
> answers. Am I warm looking at the "Virtual host" section of "hppd.conf"?

If I understand exactly what your asking, you want to give users the 
ability to make personal pages?  i.e. (http://www.whatever.net/~john)

I assume you have Apache installed and running as the overall web server?

If so, try creating a directory named  "public_html" in a user's home
directory, and put an "index.html" file in there and see if it works.
I think it's setup that way by default from Redhat.

The line:

 UserDir public_html

in the file:  /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf
controls the name of the subdirectory.

>    Why can't I remotely Telnet in and log in as Root, without using "SU
> root". (So I can do "stuff" from home.)

It's setup that way by default for security reasons.
And you _can_ do stuff remotely.  Log in as a normal user
and "su -" to root if you need to do something as root.

The file /etc/securetty controls this, and it's not a
good idea to change it.

You should login as root ONLY when it's ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!
Use a normal user login for as much as possible.  Otherwise
Murphy will show you why, the hard way!

>   Someone  point me to a good, simple text editor included with RH
> Linux...

If you are talking about a non X-windows (non GUI) editor that
you can use from the console or through a telnet session, try
"pico".  It's very easy and can be productive right away without
RTM.  When you have time, learn "vi".  It's very good, but has a
learning curve (manual required), and is well worth the time.

>   Well... guess that's it for now.
> 
>     Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I hope I helped some, and Happy Holidays!

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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