Comments below.
Marc
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Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unix Specialist
Ban-Koe Systems
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"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
>>> "Doug Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/19 11:24 AM >>>
> (1) When I ping a remote site ..... how to stop the stuff ??
>
>From "man ping":
[...]
SYNOPSIS
ping [-dfnqrvR] [-c count] [-i wait] [-l preload] [-p pattern] [-s
packetsize]
[...]
-c count
Stop after sending (and receiving) count ECHO_RESPONSE packets.
[...]
So, "ping -c 1 remote" will send one ping packet to remote. Otherwise, Ctrl-C
will cause ping to stop.
> (2) When I try to get Lynx working, it initially seems like its looking
> for the
> URL but then it stops and gives a "can't access startfile" message.
> I found the
> "lynx.cfg" file but the MAN page is really confusing and there
> doesn't appear
> to be any sort of HOWTO on lynx
lynx is saying that it can't find the file (i.e., "web site") that it is
supposed to load. If
you start lynx without any arguments, then the file it is looking for is the
one specified
on the STARTFILE line in lynx.cfg. You mentioned in a previous post that your
ISP
uses a web proxy. You need to let lynx know about this-- you can either set an
environ-
ment variable or add the setting in lynx.cfg. If you don't know what an
environment
variable is or why you'd want to use it, then I'd recommend un-commenting the
line in
lynx.cfg that starts with "http_proxy" and adding your proxy information there.
