Re: Help wanted :-)

1996-06-05 Thread Doug Geiger
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > It's time for us to start keeping a list of technical support people > and consultants who are knowledgable about Debian. We'd need their > location, what they charge, etc. This list will be provided to CD > manufacturers and users. I need a volunteer to k

Re: X Windows

1996-05-14 Thread Doug Geiger
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The graphics card in my machine is a Trident TGUI 9440 AGI which the docs > say is not yet supported (as of June of 95) but that someone was working > on it. Has there been any news? Get XFree86's latest beta, 3.1.2D. Use the SVGA server. I use the 9660

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Doug Geiger
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > The question is: > > Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so that I only > run popclient when it is? Try this: #!/bin/sh #Change ppp0 to the network device (eth0, etc.) DEVICE=ppp0 if [ -r /var/run/$DEVICE.pid ]; th

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Doug Geiger
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > The question is: > > Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so that I only > run popclient when it is? I wrote a series of scripts to handle this (however a virus infected my partition table - am still re-installing),