Linux-Misc Digest #836, Volume #23 Mon, 13 Mar 00 13:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: CD ROM ERROR (Steve)
Re: making ppp redial (Steve)
Re: Laptop problem (Steve)
Re: Red Hat install problem (Steve)
Re: Need help with setting up popserver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: env vars help! (Tony R. Bennett)
auto mail (jasbo)
Re: Mp3 Player for Car (Brian Johnson)
Re: Suggestions on AMD box? (Edward M Grill)
Re: Suggestions for SMP motherboard... (El Kabong)
Re: Tar - GZIP (J Bland)
User password required to reboot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: question on squid (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: cut and paste (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: env vars help! (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: Tar - GZIP (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: question on squid (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: can't download rpms (Simon White)
Re: can't download rpms (Stephen Cornell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: CD ROM ERROR
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:09:31 GMT
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:34:27 GMT, Christopher Shannon wrote:
>Ok I just installed Mandrake 7.0 as a 2nd OS. I replaced Redhat with the
>Mandrake version and am very pleased with one exception. I cannot mount my
>Sony CD ROM Drive. It says its mounted but I can't read from it and when I
>unmount it I cant remount it. It tells me that it has an IO error. It works
>fine in REDHAT and I'm sure it will with mandrake seeing I installed it with
>it? Please help if you can. I'm new to linux and Am taking the class this
>semester which I'm really enjoying
>Thanks Christopehr Shannon
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
More info needed, you can't mount a music CD, you can't unmount a music CD.
The drive is write protected isn't an error message, it's information.
I personally had a CD problem, I couldn't open the tray to change CDs,
and then couldn't mount or dismount, I found that I ongly get this
problem if there is a disk in the drive when I boot, this could also
be your problem.
Hope some of this helps, if not respond with more information.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:09pm up 2:47, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 1.10, 1.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: making ppp redial
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:09:30 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:01:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I've got a ton of replies for asking how my scripts can know when Linux
>has established a connection... I'm going try the /etc/ppp/ip-up
>approach. I'd like to know now if there is a script I could use under
>Linux Mandrake (I know it isn't the real thing but I broke my Slackware
>CD set!) that will make ppp redial when it gets a busy signal or no
>answer. Could you give me a hint? Oh, and thanks for the great advice!
>:)
Mine just does it automatically, somewhere with your modem or net setup
there shoudl be an option 'Disconnect on well known errors', this should
be marked to yess.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:09pm up 2:47, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 1.10, 1.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Laptop problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:09:33 GMT
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:46:26 -0500, Chris Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------3AED724070EBCB802F16161D
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>Anyone out there running RH6.0 on a laptop with a Trident CyberBlade i7
>video interface?
>My system is a Compaq Presario 1277.
>
>I'm having trouble with XF86 and would greatly appreciate some help. X
>server crashes reporting problems with "ModeLine" entries.
>Perhaps an XF86Config file?
>I'm new to the laptop scene so bear with me.
>
>TIA,
>chris
>
>
>--------------3AED724070EBCB802F16161D
>Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
> name="cdavis.vcf"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Description: Card for Chris Davis
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="cdavis.vcf"
>
>begin:vcard
>n:Davis;Christopher
>x-mozilla-html:FALSE
>org:Embedded Systems Design, Inc.
>adr:;;;;;;
>version:2.1
>email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>title:Embedded Specialist
>x-mozilla-cpt:;0
>fn:Christopher Davis
>end:vcard
>
>--------------3AED724070EBCB802F16161D--
>
Vcards suck.
Check out RedHat's website, they're constantly updating the hardware
support info, you might find the information you need there.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:09pm up 2:47, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 1.10, 1.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Red Hat install problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:09:35 GMT
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:23:21 -0800, John Zumsteg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I cannot get Red Hat 6.0 to install and boot. I've installed trying the
>standard workstation and server selections, as well as several different
>custom configurations. The install goes fine, but when I boot, it does a
>bunch of stuff, then the following:
>
>INIT: version 2.74 booting
>INIT: No inittab file found (although the install shows inittab being
>copied)
>
>Enter runlevel: (I enter 1)
>INIT: Entering runlevel 1
>INIT: No more processes left in the runlevel
>
>At which point, the machine is completely locked up; nothing works.
>This occurs whether I boot from the harddrive, or from a rescue disk or
>from a boot floppy.
>I have installed from this CDROM to another machine, without difficulty.
>
>The machine is:
>P2 - 266mhz
>64mb RAM
>4.3GB Seagate ultra-wide SCSI
>Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI card
>
>As I said, this is a consistent result, over probably 8-10 installs now.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Try a different runlevel, and try holding the shift key down when while the
boot process is taking place, you might get a menu of options to chose from.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:09pm up 2:47, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 1.10, 1.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help with setting up popserver
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:03:28 GMT
Do you have a webmail application for me ?
Daans
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most distros come with pop3 servers. Make sure you've enabled pop3 in
> inetd.conf, then killall -HUP inetd . That shoudl do it.
>
> --Yan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to setup an pop3 server. Currently i'm running sendmail and
my
> > smpt server works fine, only i have no pop3 server running to accept
> > mail. The only thing the server must do is accept mail for domain
> > daans.com and let people check mail using windows98.
> >
> > Can somebody help me, or does someone have a script so i can easily
> > install a pop3 server ?? I'm tired of the despirate attemps to
install
> > something like it.
> >
> > (ps, my outgoing smtp server (sendmail) works fine !)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Daans
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony R. Bennett)
Subject: Re: env vars help!
Date: 13 Mar 2000 09:16:46 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aron Felix Gurski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mike, L wrote:
>>
>> I'm having trouble defining (& seeing) any environment variables in my shell
>scripts (bash).
>>
>> First, if as the first line of the script I put:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> then I get the error:
>> bash: ./setenv No such file or directory
>>
>> If I leave that line out, then my script(s) seem to run ok. However, any variables
>that I define won't export.
>>
>> Neither am I able to call one shell script from another. (I'm always getting the
>same error as above.)
>>
>> I've tried defining the variable & then exporting it or even defining & exporting
>on the same line. Nothing seems to
>> work!
>
>Try using
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
>instead. On many (most? all?) Linux systems, /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash.
>That is certainly true on my systems, and I have no problem exporting
>environment variables. Bash works a bit differently if it is invoked as sh.
>
>--
> -- Aron
>
>NB: To reply by e-mail, remove "spam-block." from my address.
>- - - - - - - - - - -
>VM system programmers do it virtually all the time.
You didn't post the script...
I created a script that has the following:
#!/bin/bash
#
echo "hello, world"
And it worked fine...
If I had to guess, I would say you tried to use 'setenv' to set an
environmental variable...That's a csh methodology.
For sh, ksh, or bash try the following:
#!/bin/bash
#
MY_VAR="Hello, World"
export MY_VAR
echo "MY_VAR is set as $MY_VAR"
HTH
Tony
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From: jasbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: auto mail
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:24:27 -0500
does anyone know how i can auto send someone mail when someone make a
request to my server that saids "subscribe"??
thanks alot
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From: Brian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Mp3 Player for Car
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:39:12 GMT
Byron A Jeff wrote:
> Good. One thing you didn't mention is a power supply. I know you're probably
> thinking of using an inverter and a regular PC power supply. However MP Jones
> is currently selling a $15 laptop supply that'll take car 12V input and
> produce the PC voltages required to drive the MB. I've heard reports that
> they work great. I personally ended up building my own supply using
> RadioShack.com parts (the National Semiconductor simple switcher parts)
> but I may still get a couple of these laptop PS to test out.
thanks! that powersupply looks real nice, and saves me from attempting to build
my own (I've never gotten all that good with a soldering iron, nevermind making a
circuit board)... the only thing I don't like about that power supply is it
needs a minimum of 11 vdc input.. most of the scematics I've looked said they
were good to down to about 8.. I'm not sure if this ever will end-up being a
problem or not.. but it'd be nice having a wider tolerance just in case!
btw, for those of you who mised the first post, the link to "MP Jones" site is:
www.mpja.com - the product (the one I found on there at least) is #"4786 PS" on
their site..
does anyone good with electronics know of a good circuit, or something I can buy
(cheap) that will allow me to signal my system (probably through a serial port I
guess?) if a voltage level drops too low? this would be nice to shut down my
system before it got too low to be a problem, and also to put an earlier-warning
battery light in my dash...
Thanks
-Brian
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From: Edward M Grill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Suggestions on AMD box?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:39:32 -0500
Reply-To: "crazy eddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
i recently bought from www.mpipc.com because i go to school in buffalo.
however, i purchased an AMD k6-2 450Mhz and FIC VA 503+ mobo for under $150.
check it out. they have decent stuff. not much really but if they have what
you are looking for its worth it.
lata
eddie
"DigitalRealmz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
>
> Looking for suggestions on a good AMD based box to run Linux. What I
> want is a good, LOW-cost, do-it-yourself project. What motherboard?
> Sound card? Vid card? Modem (56K)? etc.??? I don't need the fastest set
> up, so suggestions on using an 800MHz proc aren't the kind of thing I'm
> looking for. If I can put together a 300MHz box for under $500 CDN,
> woo-hoo, that's perfect. But I'm just as happy with 166MHz.
>
> Thanks.
> V
> P.S. Sorry for the cross-posts. After posting to comp.os.linux, I
> noticed there was a larger reader base in alt.os.linux, and in
> comp.os.linux.misc.
> --
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From: Quickdraw@Thinnin'.net (El Kabong)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardawe,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestions for SMP motherboard...
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:54:17 GMT
>On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:48:43 GMT, "Jim Morrissey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone have suggestions for purchasing a dual to quad processor...
I've got a Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 366's over-clocked to 550.
I've got Warp Server for E-Business, Redhat 6.1, FreeBSD 3.3, and
Win2000 Advanced Server running (all SMP kernels) with no problems,
but I don't put much of a load on it.
I paid 80 bucks for processors (for TWO!)
E.K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Tar - GZIP
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:50:03 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:31:52 GMT, Dav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
>Just a super newbie Q for anyone who can spare the time...
>I have a file that tar doesnt want to work on, or so it seems
>its the ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
>i tried tar xvf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
>as well as tar xvz ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
>nothing works....please help!
>
tar xvzf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
will extract it all.
x extracts the files from the archive
v makes tar verbose (shows you what it's up to)
z passes it through gzip to decompress it (the .gz extension shows it's been
gzip compressed)
f uses an archive file rather than a physical tape device
the following does the same thing (for people without GNU tar):
cat archive.tar.gz | gunzip - | tar xvf -
streams the archive through a pipe to gunzip which decompresses it and
streams the uncompressed data through a pipe to tar which then extracts the
files ('-' makes the commands take their input from stdin).
JB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: User password required to reboot
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:53:30 GMT
When a normal user is logged in and wants to reboot the machine, Linux
prompts for the user's password. How do I turn this off? It's very
annoying.
Thank you.
John Spencer
Systems Administrator
Model Technology, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question on squid
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:18:07 -0300
Squid is a proxy server. It provides HTTP / FTP and some other few
services,
but not MAIL or NEWS. To get mails from Internet, you can use a tool
called
fetchmail. It's very simple to configure and works fine...
Other solution is to enable ip masquerading in your Linux box. Run:
# ipchains -A forward -s your_net/your_mask -d 0/0 -j MASQ
(eg. ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ)
It will forward all ip packets from your network.
Make the Linux box be the gateway of your network (configure Linux as
the default gateway on your workstations).
News, traceroute, ping, mail will work now...
Put the ipchains line in your startup scripts (/etc/rc.d/rc.something)
[]'s,
Matheus.
Paul Anderson wrote:
> I know this is likely OT, but I can't find a suitable group at this
> time.
>
> Would someone either point me to the correct group, or answer what I
> hope is a simple question?
>
> I have squid running on RH6.1 and http works fine all across the
> network. I can't get any configuration to allow for mail. I have looked
> at working squid.conf files and have made all appropriate changes. I
> have checked my /etc/hosts file, and believe there are no problems
> there. I have more than once checked the NS proxy config, and don't
> think there is a problem there. This is obviously either a brain fart or
> a mistaken assumption (aka brain fart as well).
>
> Once I configured my NS5.61 on my linux box to use it, my mail dumped as
> well it would seem, but I get no error message from it.
>
> The other machines can't seem to find the DNS host (ISP DNS server) for
> mail or news, nor will ping and tracert (win98) seem to get through the
> proxy either. However, DNS for HTTP seems to be fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> "No matter what you say,
> No matter what you do,
> You are annoying.
> BOFH and proud!!"
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cut and paste
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:23:31 -0300
Try cutting with button 1 and pasting with both...
Andrew Neiderer wrote:
> I am using SuSE 6.1 Linux with twm (Tom's Window Manager)
> on a Dell XPS 233.
>
> I can't get the cut (mouse button 1) and paste (mouse button 2)
> to work. I have a M$ Intellimouse 3 button where the second
> button can also be used for scrolling.
>
> Do I need to edit or generate some file ? And what would the
> entry look like ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Andy Neiderer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS Respond to me directly as I don't read this newsgroup
> regularly (maybe I should :-)
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: env vars help!
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:33:18 -0300
setenv() is a function defined in stdlib.h; please check if u have this file in
/usr/include. setenv() is responsible for adding your env variables. See setenv(3).
---
Matheus C. Torres.
Mike, L wrote:
> I'm having trouble defining (& seeing) any environment variables in my shell scripts
>(bash).
>
> First, if as the first line of the script I put:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> then I get the error:
> bash: ./setenv No such file or directory
>
> If I leave that line out, then my script(s) seem to run ok. However, any variables
>that I define won't export.
>
> Neither am I able to call one shell script from another. (I'm always getting the
>same error as above.)
>
> I've tried defining the variable & then exporting it or even defining & exporting on
>the same line. Nothing seems to
> work!
>
> If anyone can help me with this, I'd really appreciate it!!!!
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tar - GZIP
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:26:13 -0300
The correct is "tar -xvzf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz" ('-' is optional)...
---
Matheus C. Torres
Dav wrote:
> Hello all,
> Just a super newbie Q for anyone who can spare the time...
> I have a file that tar doesnt want to work on, or so it seems
> its the ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
> i tried tar xvf ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
> as well as tar xvz ksh-5.2.14.tar.gz
> nothing works....please help!
>
> Jav
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question on squid
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:25:33 +0000
Paul Anderson wrote:
>
> I know this is likely OT, but I can't find a suitable group at this
> time.
>
> Would someone either point me to the correct group, or answer what I
> hope is a simple question?
Question on squid are appropriate for the comp.os.linux.networking
newsgroup.
> I have squid running on RH6.1 and http works fine all across the
> network. I can't get any configuration to allow for mail.
Squid is a HTTP proxy server. What does that have to do with mail?
> I have looked
> at working squid.conf files and have made all appropriate changes. I
> have checked my /etc/hosts file, and believe there are no problems
> there. I have more than once checked the NS proxy config, and don't
> think there is a problem there. This is obviously either a brain fart or
> a mistaken assumption (aka brain fart as well).
>
> Once I configured my NS5.61 on my linux box to use it, my mail dumped as
> well it would seem, but I get no error message from it.
>
> The other machines can't seem to find the DNS host (ISP DNS server) for
> mail or news, nor will ping and tracert (win98) seem to get through the
> proxy either. However, DNS for HTTP seems to be fine.
Squid is a HTTP proxy. It is not a general purpose proxy.
Erik
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From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't download rpms
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:51:52 +0000
> > I'm having the weirdest problem. I cannot download about 2/3 rpm's
> > that I try to. Doesn't matter from where, doesn't matter what ftp client I use.
> > Some rpm's hang at about 20-40k. It's happened with numerous packages
> > over the last couple of months. Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Kevin Paul
Try software like GetRight that will allow you to resume where you left
off. Sounds to me like your modem or your internet connection letting you
down. Also, FTP sites for linux are often busy, and therefore you get slow
transfers - which cause most FTP software to just hang or give up. Get
Right (not the only solution available) is shareware, and will segment
downloads / restart them / send a PING to keep the connection alive...
Essential software for out here in Morocco, even sitting on 256K to the
Internet :-)
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't download rpms
Date: 13 Mar 2000 18:04:34 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Paul) writes:
> I'm having the weirdest problem. I cannot download about 2/3 rpm's
> that I try to. Doesn't matter from where, doesn't matter what ftp
> client I use. Some rpm's hang at about 20-40k. It's happened with
> numerous packages over the last couple of months. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> Kevin Paul
I can't solve your problem, but at least I can sympathize because I
suffer precisely the same symptoms. I've posted a couple of times to
ask for help, and while there have been lots of suggestions related to
improving downloading performance in general (e.g. checking out
IRQtune) the problem still persists. It was pretty frustrating that
no-one would believe that the problem ONLY occured with rpm files.
The problem did not occur when I borrowed a friend's modem (while
still using my computer and telephone line), but my own modem
performed fine on a windows machine. It would appear that there's
some subtle interaction between the modem's software, the arguments to
pppd, and the type of data in rpm files. I suspect that it's software
compression by the modem that's causing the problem; maybe it's trying
to Two things that I haven't tried are flashing the modem's firmware
(because I don't know how to) and changing the MTU arguments to pppd
(I don't know what to choose - the Linux docs as always assume that
you know what such things mean). If you're confident doing either,
then it might be worth giving it a go - and please let me know how you
get on.
The way that I get around the problem is by first downloading rpm's
onto another Unix machine, running them through gzip, and then ftp'ing
the .rpm.gz file. This doesn't change (significantly) the size of the
file, but the download then proceeds without a hitch.
Good luck,
Stephen.
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