sslftp for Slink?

2000-05-20 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi. Can anyone please tell me where (if?) I can find sslftp or something similar for a box running Slink? Thanks in advance.

newbie questions - kill and lpd

2000-04-06 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top. Any suggestions about what to do now? Second - I get messages about lp1 being out of paper - I have no printer attached at the moment. I've killed the lpd

Basic Ethernet config Help Needed

2000-02-05 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi all. Sorry if this is a bit long. I'm running Slink 2.1 (r2) and trying to get a 3Com900 ethernet (PCI) card working. I've done the following: Compiled driver from source (D Becker) and put this 3c90x.o in /lib/modules/2.0.36/net Added alias eth0 3com90x to /etc/modutils/alias (at the end - is

Re: Basic Ethernet config Help Needed

2000-02-05 Thread Abdul Aziz
Thanks for the reply. I don't have a line for the module in /etc/modules. What should I insert? Thanks again. Do you have a line for the module in /etc/modules ? This will result in the laoding of the module at bootup. I have a static IP address. I have attached my /etc/init.d/network.

Problem with X on Slink after apt-get update

2000-02-03 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi. I just changed my video card to an ATI Xpert 2000 8MB and used apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade to fetch the XFree 3.3.6 for Slink from http://www.debian.org/~vincent. All downloaded and installed OK - except for error with xterm which was left unconfigured with message unable to make

Exim retry problem

2000-01-25 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi, I am using Slink (r2) and have a problem with exim after a new install. I can send and receive local mail OK - and remote mail via my ISP is OK when I am on-line. But external mail is not queued when off-line - I get error message in the /var/log/exim/mainlog which says: retry timeout

Where is texi2html package?

2000-01-23 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi, Can anyone tell in what .deb package texi2html is? I've been looking for it for ages and can't find it. Thanks.

Anacron problem

2000-01-04 Thread Abdul Aziz
Following a system update I get the following message (e-mailed to root) from Anacron regarding job cron.daily: nice: cannot set priority:Permission denied. cron.daily exits with nothing done. What needs to be done? I've only been using Debian a while and am a bit stuck. Any help appreciated and

Re: Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-17 Thread Abdul Aziz
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays

Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-15 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi, I'm new to Debian and am trying to get smail working (using Elm) on 2.1 Slink - standard install from CD's. I keep getting the message cannot parse fully qualified domain. I filled in the name of my ISP (lineone.net) for the smarthost part of the config (I also tried smtp.lineone.net which got