Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-28 Thread JF Martinez
First time the PPP daemon is started it fails. I found this is realated to the fact it tries using /dev/ppp who is a pseudo device availble in 2.3 only. Could someone fix that please: it makes the user spending two phone fees instead of one. -- Jean Francois Martinez

Re: RH 6.1 tulip ethernet driver

1999-10-28 Thread David Whitehurst
Russell Steffen wrote: > Anyone else notice that RH6.1 (and apparently the official kernel sources > too) have an old version of the tulip ethernet driver. I can tell you from > experience that anyone who installs 6.1 on a system with a recent Linksys > card is for a mandatory scavenger hunt and

Re: xinitrc

1999-10-28 Thread Tony Nugent
On Fri Oct 29 1999 at 10:12, John Summerfield wrote: > > Does anyone know what the purpose of obtaining $BROWSER is for in > > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc? Its always been there as long as I've used redhat > > (3.0.3) and I figure that its just never been removed. > > It can ahve several values acco

Re: xinitrc

1999-10-28 Thread John Summerfield
> > Does anyone know what the purpose of obtaining $BROWSER is for in > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc? Its always been there as long as I've used redhat > (3.0.3) and I figure that its just never been removed. It can ahve several values according to what is actually installed; if netscape's present,

File this

1999-10-28 Thread Henry J. Cobb
>Has anyone met JFS yet? It's the latest OS/2 filesystem, adopted from AIX. When will IBM release the sources? ;-) -HJC -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: oddities in list deliveries?

1999-10-28 Thread John Summerfield
> Then it USED to be the case that they arrived in my mail box in that order. > For the last two weeks or so the order has been more like: > > msg 2 arrives > msg 1 arrives 45 min latter than it "should have" > msg 5 arrives > msg 3 arrives 20 min latter than it "should have" > msg 4 arrives 60

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-28 Thread John Summerfield
> > > Well there are several small editors for people allergic to VI, three > > > or four mail readers, same thing with mailers. I am a man of simple > > > tastes: I want the best in everrything and I have no place for second > > > > I used pine a lot, as do many others. Many prefer elm. Which

Re: updated redhat distribution / installation cdroms

1999-10-28 Thread John Summerfield
> > I have a box with OS/2, NT and Linux 6. I don't imagine RHL 6.1 will get > > anywhere near it; I'm sure it will stumble on OS/2 as well. > > It shouldnt, unless OS/2 and NT use the same partition type. 0x07 means installable filesystem. It does not mean either NTFS or HPFS; it can be eithe

Re: authoring manpages

1999-10-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: > Where can I find a troff macro description for manpages? AFAIK, it does not > use me, mm or one of the others but rather "mandoc". It uses the 'an' macro package. Appended is a script I wrote a LONG time ago to write man pages. It almost certainly needs some minor twe

Re: RH 6.1 tulip ethernet driver

1999-10-28 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Made even more difficult by the fact that OEMs generally are not very consistent at all in the chipsets that go into particular lines of cards. I've seen old chipsets in new cards. On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:54:16AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Russell Steffen wrote: > > > A

Re: RH 6.1 tulip ethernet driver

1999-10-28 Thread Ingo Luetkebohle
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Russell Steffen wrote: > Anyone else notice that RH6.1 (and apparently the official kernel sources > too) have an old version of the tulip ethernet driver. I can tell you from > experience that anyone who installs 6.1 on a system with a recent Linksys > card is for a mandatory