IP Forwarding/Masquerading Built-in?

Do the standard versions of the Debian kernel have IP forwarding and and IP Masquerading compiled in? Is there an easy way to tell what's in the kernel and what isn't? Also is there any easy way to tell the version of the kernel image being used? Thanks, JEB -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe

Login.defs for SuperUser

I get the following message when I log on as 'su'. configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE' (notify administrator) I cleared this out in the login.defs file (per help on this list) for a normal login by setting up a null /etc/issue file. I can login now as a normal user without the mes

Re: Dselect problem after upgrading....

Thanks. Your advice was right on target. JEB > > I also get a strange message when I connect by either a remote telnet > > connection or a console. The message is: > > > > configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB' (notify > > administrator) > > The handling of /etc/issue was chang

Dselect problem after upgrading....

I upgraded from the bo to the hamm versions. I've encountered two problems that I don't know how to fix. One is that dselect via ftp stopped working. As explained in the HOW-TO, I've installed the required dpkg upgrades in the order listed. And I then used the 'ftp' method to upgrade many of

problem with bash -- probably

I'm new to the Debian community. I've used Slackware before. Debian's package tools are reasonably good. I found it easy to install. But a few things are definitely different like the standard shell environment setups are stripped bare. I'm running the Debian system from a network termina