wussyman23
11-29-2004, 02:19 PM
Long time lurkers will know I've had issues with my servers and my lack of knowledge of Linux. Cut to the point. Thirdparty company set up Suse 9.0 Linux servers, their words "ripped" the GUI out of the Linux and it only runs in the "command" prompt mode. I think that's the shell? Anyways, I figured out that Ctrl+AltL+F1 takes you to the "shell" and Ctrl+Alt+F7 will take you to the GUI. However, on the Linux servers, the F7 option is just blank which leads me to believe that they have "uninstalled" the GUI. First, how does one do that in Linux? Second, how would you add it back?
Second problem. I can't contact this third party for the most part, anymore. They have set up a firewall and is sitting on the internet for FTP services. Then on the other Linux box it has DHCP Service running. I want to turn DHCP off to put to another Windows box. Is this something simple to do? Again only in the "shell", not the GUI. As for the firewall, is there a way to know how its configured, any way to know if there are routes assigned on it, etc. What would be the most common firewall that people in Linux would configure there? Is there a popular one? Is it on a base Linux install?
I would love help in the second paragraph, especially in turning off DHCP, but I will take what answers people can give on the first paragraph. How do you uninstall a GUI?
Thanks guys.
Second problem. I can't contact this third party for the most part, anymore. They have set up a firewall and is sitting on the internet for FTP services. Then on the other Linux box it has DHCP Service running. I want to turn DHCP off to put to another Windows box. Is this something simple to do? Again only in the "shell", not the GUI. As for the firewall, is there a way to know how its configured, any way to know if there are routes assigned on it, etc. What would be the most common firewall that people in Linux would configure there? Is there a popular one? Is it on a base Linux install?
I would love help in the second paragraph, especially in turning off DHCP, but I will take what answers people can give on the first paragraph. How do you uninstall a GUI?
Thanks guys.