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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!mr.net!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 28 Mar 1997 03:19:40 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5hfdcc$fak@clarknet.clark.net> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h3tk9$67u@clarknet.clark.net> <3337b48c.2991203@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer2.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960824] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19492 comp.os.linux.misc:166753 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37918 In alt.os.linux Goatboy <lcappite@sprynet.com> wrote: : >Gee... when I installed my Linux system (Slackware 3), I found that it : >ALREADY HAD an FTP server set up and running. I did precisely nothing. : How? The only network mine was set up as was the initial loopback : network. And couldn't you FTP to localhost? The message referred to setting up the FTP server, not setting up networking in general. If that's what was actually meant, it wasn't clear to me. I'll agree, that's a more complicated issue; maybe even more complicated than under NT. But four months' worth? No way. It took me a long time to get around to actually setting it up, but once I did, it only took one night. -- William McBrine | http://www.clark.net/pub/wmcbrine/html/ wmcbrine@clark.net | Vote Ralph Nader for President in 2000!