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Hi. I introduced myself in the Subscriptions folder where I said my new installation was going fine.
Well, it didn't take long for problems to start happening. I thought it might be a good idea to document what I am doing. Others might learn from my experiences and be possibly point to solutions in this forum.
I will provide more info in due course.
PS: Mods, if this is not an appropriate use of this forum then please delete it and PM me.
Well, it didn't take long for problems to start happening. I thought it might be a good idea to document what I am doing. Others might learn from my experiences and be possibly point to solutions in this forum.
Welcome to the LQ Slackware forum. Do you have a question?
You are welcome.
Okay. I'll deal with one of your questions. An easy way to set-up a firewall is to use Alien Bob's easy firewall generator, see link below. Copy, paste, and save the script to your hard drive as a file called rc.firewall. Then open up a root shell prompt, navigate to the the saved file, and make the script executable by using this command: # chmod +x rc.firewall
Next, put the firewall script into /etc/rc.d with this command: # mv rc.firewall /etc/rc.d
Then start-up your new firewall with this command: # /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start
You are welcome.
Okay. I'll deal with one of your questions. An easy way to set-up a firewall is to use Alien Bob's easy firewall generator, <---snip--->
Great! Now I have a firewall and I am feeling more secure. Of course it took me a while to get the script working properly. The problem is that I copied the generated text and pasted it into "nano" (running inside "Terminal"). The bastard word-wrapped several lines! Therefore, when I ran the script, I got a lot of "command not found" errors as well as some stern messages about incorrect parameters! (@#%&! Murphy's law! *growl*). It's all good now.
BTW I have figured out the sound problem. It all works fine when I log in as root. I obviously haven't given my user name the necessary permissions to use the sound drivers. For the same reason, I can't use external USB memory drives but root can.
I will get into the meatier problems in due course.
Make sure your normal user belongs to the following groups: audio, video, cdrom, plugdev, power, floppy, netdev. You can do that with the following superuser command:
usermod -a -G audio,video,cdrom,plugdev,power,floppy,netdev USERNAME
If you use the adduser script (instead of useradd) you should see:
Quote:
Initial group [ users ]:
Additional UNIX groups:
At the Additional UNIX groups a simple up-arrow will add all of the usually-needed groups to the user.
Those are: audio cdrom floppy plugdev video power netdev.
Don't forget rg3's answer, though, because you can use it if you add software that adds groups.
For instance, some scanner software requires the group hp or scanner be added; some printers require
that the group hp or lp be added.
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