Re: Minimum hardware for Netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Ervin D . Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) writes: > What's the real-world minimum hardware for running Netscape on top of X? > I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but > Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is un

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-27 Thread Ervin D . Walter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico De Ranter) writes: > > there doesn't seem to be version of communicator 4.06 build > for libc6. Look again. There is a glibc2 binary in the development/ tree (not the shipping/ tree) Erv -- Graduate Student

Re: Netscape & libXpm.so.4

1998-08-24 Thread Ervin D . Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Van Hulle) writes: > I installed libc5 - still not working. Here some more information: > > The error is: > /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > "ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape" gi

Re: Problem with fetchmail

1998-08-06 Thread Ervin D. Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ehren Wilson) writes: > > --- Begin Screen Copy --- > bash-2.01$ fetchmail -u ehren mail.powersurfr.com > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 92 messages (1 seen) for ehren at mail.powersurfr.com (258990 bytes). >

Re: More diald problems.

1997-01-12 Thread Ervin D. Walter
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David Engel wrote: > > I didn't know there was a new version. Thanks. Diald now restores > the routes and interfaces to the state they were before the link was > brought up. However, diald still won't bring the link back up > automatically after it has taken it down. The

util-linux

1996-09-26 Thread Ervin D. Walter
I find that the clock binary in util-linux 2.5-6 still makes my real time clock go nuts. The binary from 2.5-4 works fine. Am I missing soomething? ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ ==-- _ / /

Re: clock -w writes bogus date

1996-08-28 Thread Ervin D. Walter
Bill Wohler writes: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.5-5 > > "clock -w" is screwing up the CMOS clock. See: > You are not alone. clock has not worked for me at all with this release. I had the same symptoms and I had do downgrade to 2.5-4. Erv --

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-23 Thread Ervin D. Walter
Adam Heath writes: > > > > This is all nice and good, but there is a better way. > [bad way deleted] There is a reason that that /etc/securetty does not contain the pseudo terminals in the first place. It is very unsecure to allow root to login directly anywahere except the console or possibl

Fwd: missing a new gsfonts

1996-08-22 Thread Ervin D. Walter
-Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ervin D. Walter)- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:32:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ervin D. Walter) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: missing a new gsfonts X-Mailer: Mutt 0.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gs was upgraded but a new

Re: Solved: mouse problem (running both gpm and X)

1996-08-19 Thread Ervin D. Walter
Mark Phillips writes: > > You may recall I posted, complaining that I had to kill gpm before I > could get X to run. I solved the problem by changing the mouse device > over to /dev/ttyS0 (whereas before it was /dev/cua0). Now things work > fine! > > Am I right in thinking that the cua devices

diald troubles

1996-08-17 Thread Ervin D. Walter
I hope someone here can give me some advice. I have set up diald correctly (i think), and it works pretty well, but there are a couple disturbing messages I get consitantly on the syslog: Aug 17 18:40:51 sigma pppd[341]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 17 18:40:51 sigma pppd[341]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /de

gs 3.53 and up

1996-08-16 Thread Ervin D. Walter
I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00 in the standard distributions. Specifically, when I try to use gs with *any* device be it the console, X, or a printer, I get errors like the following with the standard distribs and compiled versions: Error: /limitcheck in --mo

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-15 Thread Ervin D. Walter
David J. Evans writes: > I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to > administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection > as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give > root privs. to a named user or can I enable telnet > connections as root ? > > The machine norm