Hardware ?

1997-12-03 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
Hey all, I was going to buy a SCSI card for a SyQuest SyJet drive, and was wordering if anyone had luck with the Adaptec AHA-2910B card? It's not listed in the Hardware Howto. Also... Is there a different pinout for SCSI-2 vs. Ultra SCSI ? And lastly... Does anyone have any good/bad stories for

Found interesting diald info

1997-11-25 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
For those of you with dynamic ip's, problems with windows machines (random dialing) and other problems related to diald, check out this link: (english) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-e.html (spanish) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-s.html -Brian -

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-24 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
> > "Brian M. Rectanus" wrote: > >> > >> At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >> >Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? > >> >Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. > >>

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-23 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
> > At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? > >Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. > >The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) > >on the unit that has the modem on it. And would lik

Re: Configuring dftp to get hamm

1997-11-19 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
As stated in the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO: When you run dselect, select "access" from the menu and anser the questions as follows: ftp site: ftp.debian.org debian directory: /debian dist. to get: dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/non-free dists/unstable/contrib This should fix the prob... -Bri

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
see: http://www.aca.imsa.edu/~che/debian/gimp/ -Brian > > Hi, > > I tried to install gimp from the hamm/unstable > distribution. Gimp 0.99.14-1 asks for gimp-data-min, > which I cannot seem to find. > There is a gimp-data but not gimp-data-min. > Does anyone know how to solve this? > > Joop >

Re: xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

1997-11-13 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
> > For some reason processes are not being terminated after a user logs out of an > X session (via xdm). > > Example: > User logs in and starts up "vi someprogram", then user xxx kills the X > session (ie kills WM, thus killing session). User xxx logs in again and > 's > "vi someprog

modem over network

1997-11-13 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
I'm trying to access the modem on another linux box directally. I have read the mini-HOWTO on how to do this Windoze -> linux, but want it linux -> linux. It goes something like this: small daemon(modemd) to redirect modem on server: (from miniHOWTO) #!/usr/bin/perl select((select(STDOUT), $|

xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

1997-11-11 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
For some reason processes are not being terminated after a user logs out of an X session (via xdm). Example: User logs in and starts up "vi someprogram", then user xxx kills the X session (ie kills WM, thus killing session). User xxx logs in again and 's "vi someprogram" is STILL runnin