big sigh and many questions.

Fri Oct 4 01:14:19 EDT 2002

Hi,

     Funny this should come up on the list. Jerry and I just discovered
yesterday that PPP puts a copy of resolv.conf in the /etc/ppp directory.  
I don't know for sure if this is the correct way to fix this, but it'll
work.  Just copy the resolv.conf that ppp made when you last connected to
your ISP to where the resolver expects it to be.  As root, do: "cp
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc", without the quotes, of course.  You'll be
prompted to confirm the replacement of /etc/resolv.conf. Say y.  The next
time you connect, you should be fine.

          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:

> 
> Anna Schneider back again.  See I try to work on my system, hit problems 
> almost immediately and then don't do anything for two months.  Such is my 
> relationship with computers.  Now, let's see if I can make any sense.
> 
> First, I did get a couple of tutorial, I think they are tutorial, Red Hat 
> CD's with my system, but I don't know how to access them.  I have to do 
> something with mount don't I, but I do I know what I'm mounting, and how 
> do I know which device is designated as what, and once I get the CD 
> writer/reader mounted, how do I read the information it has?
> 
> second, I'm still having modem problems.  I can dial in with ppp okay, but 
> then I can't seem do telnet or ssh, and I don't know where their config 
> files are, or their how-to files.  I means I've skimmed the info pages on 
> them but it's all jibberish to me.  When I try ssh, I get something about 
> host name resolution failure, and telnet just can't find the host.  Now, 
> from my non-ppp account on Drizzle, I often telnet to the catalog ofr the 
> Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and that works fine, but when 
> I even tried doing that on my Linux machine, I couldn't.  It couldn't find 
> it or something, but I'm wondering if it's actually a problem on my end.
> 
> This doesn't make any sense does it.  I can't do anything.  Every time I 
> try I go backwards.  I don't understand the the info pages because they 
> are so terminology ladend.  I can't find help on the things I need because 
> I don't know where to look. Oh, and I can only access my moem as root, not 
> as anther user and I can find where to change that because I don't know 
> what to look for.
> 
> Can anyone sort through this and give me pointers.  This is starting to 
> throw my life into chaos.
> 
> Thanks much.