[newbie] Diald, kppp and Mandrake 7.2 - installation issue

Hello I am trying to install diald with Mandrake 7.2 Kppp is running ok so I know that the modem and connections are fine. I read diald Howto many times but to no avail. Could someone out there help me out? I want to run diald (I got the latest mandrake rpm file .99.1) without

[newbie] /proc/kcore - what is it?

Hello Can anyone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is? Can I delete it? Many thanks Eduardo

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

Hello Thanks all for the suggestions regarding getting man to work. Here is what I tried: a) Re-installation of man softaware - It didn't work. b) Copy of somebody else's man.config to /etc/man.config. - It didn work. c) Use man as man -M /usr/man - it worked. The funniest thing about it is

[newbie] Kmail panic

Hello I have been running kmail-1.29 for quite a while, unfortunately it decided to not send emails anymore (error 550). Would anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks a lot. Ed