In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said: > > Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? =
the latest install set is hmmm how can i put this <smile> there was no ftp in a new 1.2 installation, this makes it extremely difficult to install imho based on the next problem. using dselect to connect to one of my other machines failed miserably until i worked out why the pathing failed, when trying to get the Packages(.gz) file the hard coded commands used were as follows, this is based on looking at a ftp servers log. cd /stable/binary-i386 nlist stable/binary-i386 note the lack of a leading slash on the second pathname. i had to literally create a path as below to get it to work, based upon dselect prompting me for a path. i have no idea why it works on a mirror site, maybe links ? /stable/binary-i386/stable/binary-i386 K11cron was missing from the /etc/rc1.d rc2.d - rc6.d directories so i had to work out how to get my cron working again, which i did. i also had to touch the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory. dselect is still unusably slow in screen drawing and scrolling and virtually useless when to trying to navigate it, i prefer the version from 12 months ago and use dpkg from the command line now as its much easier instead of having dselect constantly choose packages and remove things for you. if its going to have smarts builtin do it properly please. B) pppd or something appears to be misbehaving, im getting errors if i look at the output from ifconfig it reports anywhere from 2% - 10% errors, which i never had before 2.0.27 but pppstats does not report any errors. ppp0 RX packets:3782 errors: 103 dropped: 103 overruns: 0 i also have a problem in the /var/log/ppp.log file strauss pppd[14923]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP and DNS lookups sometimes fail, unless i requery again. ip_masquerading is misbehaving with the ip_masq_ftp.o module as it stalls constantly during transfers and connections. my configuration also includes firewalls and rules for Forwarding, Input and Output if thats of any interest, moreover throughput on a 28.8 drops down to 200bps at times. i have a complex network here and have really put debian through its paces so anyway just my $0.02c but apart from all that debian is a great distribution keep it up ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ | | _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ | | _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ | | _/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ | | _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ | | | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Software Engineering in C++ and SQL | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
