Guide to configuring Slackware Linux for use with Demon Internet ================================================================ File: slack3.0.help.tgz Size: 136473 bytes Location: ftp.demon.co.uk Directory: /pub/unix/linux/Demon Short: Guide to configuring Slackware Linux for use with Demon Internet. 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. 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. 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. 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. My thanks go to Ivan Beveridge for allowing me to include his INN configuration package, and to everyone else who has helped in the preparation of the Guide. -- John Phillips john@linux.demon.co.uk 10th May 1996