Shutdown messages not visible after xdm stopped

Hi, I recently set up a hamm-system running xdm. When shutting down, there are no messages from the moment xdm disappears and the console comes back until to the final system halted. I disabled xdm and used startx. After beeing back from X to the console I noticed that all messages during

Re: How to configure sendmail for dial on demand operation ?

Torsten Hilbrich writes: Gerd Bavendiek schrieb am Sun, 31 May 1998 17:24:30 +0200 (CEST): Hi, My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline), which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish connections in the background. The mail processing shall

How to configure sendmail for dial on demand operation ?

Hi, My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline), which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish connections in the background. The mail processing shall be delayed until I explicitly make a connection. Though I found various hints on I was not able to make

plip connection to laptop breaks after laptop disk powers down

Hi, recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the connection between Tower and laptop seems to be

lpr: connect: No such file or directory

Hi, I just tried to install another network printer. After fiddling with /etc/printcap I got problems. To make a longer story short: I decided to dpkg -r lpr. This went fine. So I reinstalled lpr, using lpr_5.9-12.deb. After setting up rm and rp in /etc/printcap I tried lpr ... This is what I

PS/2 Mouse Driver in Debian 1.1 2.0.0

Hi, I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2 Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing /lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in /usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But there is no psaux.o in

Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

Hi, on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

ftp+rcp: Connection refused

Hi, I just installed a Debian 1.1 System using latest packages. Everything went fine, but one problem remains: I can ftp TO the new system. I cannot ftp FROM my new system, named koko. So being on koko and doing: ftp zaza gives me: ftp: connect: Connection refused strace gives me: