[H-GEN] "Connection Refused" (was Re: [H-CHAT] gawsh darn it)

Anthony Towns aj at humbug.org.au
Wed Jul 16 04:48:15 EDT 1997


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On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Q. Cregan wrote:

> a) i hope this is the right mailing list.

] General:  [...] On topic subjects: - Unix configuration problems.
]                                    - Answers to problems posted.
]                                      [...]

> hmm. well, i finally decided to give redhat a go on my once slackwared
> system.  

<subliminal>debian... debian... debian...</subliminal>

> however i've stumbled across a problem when it comes to adding
> users.  I can add them no problems, its just when they (anyone BUT root)
> trys to access net services (irc, telnet, lynx) anything. i just get
> connection refused.

As Bruce said some more info would be nice here. What happens if you
try telnetting to localhost and student.uq.edu.au as both root and a
normal user, for example?

Does:
	$ echo hello > test.txt
	$ lynx test.txt
work? (it should come up with lynx and just "hello" at the top left)

> I figure this is probably something I'm overlooking,
> but as the subject line states, gawsh darn it... this is annoyed.

<subliminal>debian... debian... debian...</subliminal>

Cheers,
aj


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