John-- I've tried to find navigator-smotif-45 thru ftp debian.org, but
without success. I did find one non-free directory, but navigator wasn't
in it, as far I could tell, just various binaries, but it wasn't in them
either. Thanks anyway.-- Max
On 20 Jul 1999 22:26:43 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John-- I've tried to find navigator-smotif-45 thru ftp debian.org, but
without success. I did find one non-free directory, but navigator wasn't
in it, as far I could tell, just various binaries, but it wasn't in them
either. Thanks anyway.-- Max
John == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even though I've configured exim, it doesn't by itself arouse pppd,...
...and so it doesn't actually send the messages.
John You have to run it while connected to the Net. Type 'runq' as
John root, or put runq in a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.
maxalbert writes:
Since receiving your message, I tried ping debian.org. It
responded...
Once again, however, I'm only able to do this from within pon-poff.
Yes, of course. You are only connected to the Net after running pon and
before running poff.
I haven't tried adding a default route
Bill-- Bless your heart; you've anticipated my question. Last night,
using pon, I was able to run ftp (because unlike wvdial, pon gives me
a prompt), and actually reached both debian.org sunsite.unc.edu, and
successfully transferred a couple of README files. Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!
I also ran
This is true but also please try to appreciate the nature and the
magnitude of the problem. Almost every distribution of Linux (and
for that matter UNIX) have critical differences in the fine details
of how certain tasks are accomplished. There is almost NO task that
has only one right way to
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:23:05 -0400 Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Hi Max;
You really need to spend some time reading the HOWTOs and some of the
stuff in /usr/doc/* !! In particular see the ISP-HOWTO but remember
to look in /usr/doc/* and with man for any program configuration
files that
If anyone who is actually involved in writing documentation PLEASE
take this stuff
on board because if even one elementary (to an expert) item is overlooked it
causes
untold frustration to the less experienced !
If anything, I am swamped with manuals. Sometimes they help,
Max,
What is it you want to do over your ppp link? If it is just email and web,
I would suggest running Netscape as an initial setup while you configure
everything else..
try apt-get communicator (I think that is the package name) if your
sources.list file is set up.
Otherwise you need to
Of course that should be apt-get install communicator.
-Original Message-
From: Carley, Jason (Australia)
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 9:06 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: PPPuzzles
Max,
What is it you want to do over your ppp link? If it is just email and web,
I would
That's the good news. The bad news is it just sits there, without so
much as a prompt.
Why would you want it to give you a prompt? What would you do with it if
you got it? Once the ppp connection is up, it is just there for any
application to use, just like an ethernet connection. The
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