Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-12 Thread John T. Larkin
> I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my > download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be care

Re: Weird: networking problem?

1997-03-06 Thread John T. Larkin
On Mar 6, Yanhui Liu wrote > I connected my desktop and notebook computers, both are running linux > 2.0.27, using the plip module. The desktop is set up as the gateway. The > strange thing is that the notebook can ping the desktop, but the desktop > cannot ping the notebook. I am new to networking

Re: running script files.

1997-03-06 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 7, A. M. Varon wrote > It seems that shell scripts i have made in my debian distrib. doesn't run. > you need to put ./ in front in order for it to execute. Bash will only execute programs which are specified in your path (to see what your path is, type "echo $PATH"). If "." is not in your

Re: Running files

1997-03-05 Thread John T. Larkin
> how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a > file called startup, how do I run it? What sort of file is it? If you know that it's an executable file, you probably need to set the execute bit on the file. You can do with "chmod u+x ". Check out the man page for ch

Re: wu-ftpd

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
> ls, I get no output. Only the following shows up: > > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp> This is probably because "ls" can't find the proper libraries it needs to load. When a user uses anonomous ftp, it

Re: Installation problem which now is network problem

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
> Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have > no contact at all with the network and with the Internet in particular. I > think I have to make some changes in the network configuration. The question > is: How do I reconfigure the network when I've already installe

Re: x windows

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
> > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x > > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will > > need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb > > of swap space. > am quite impressed with its abilities. I don't think I'd try xwin with > less than say 300,

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 26, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote > Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: > > >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real > > >embarassing to beat them. So please, if you are participating, change your > > >reporting address to "[EMAIL

Re: NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

1997-02-25 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 24, Robert Nicholson wrote > Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the > rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 > and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. I don't know if this is the recommended usage, but I just did

Re: HELP! XDM locked me out of Linux!

1997-02-23 Thread John T. Larkin
> Is there any way to skip the XDM startup file? Maybe if I start up in > single user mode? Is there a LILO option for that? Assuming that "linux" is your kernel image with lilo, at the lilo prompt, you can try one of the following: LILO: linux single or LILO: linux emergency "single" brings y

Finger?

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
I got an odd message today while using finger. While logged into tty1 on the local console, I typed in "finger" and got the response: No one logged on. This was obviously incorrect, since I was logged on. -- - John Larkin - [EM

Re: IPX loading every 5 minutes

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
> properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being > loaded, it's being loaded every five minutes. An excerpt from my messages > Okay, now does anyone have a good idea as to how to suppress it? :) The three ways I see of surpressing it: 1) Stop using IPX.

Re: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
> Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with > dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only > things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am > not doing anything. First, run something like "top" to see if anything

Re: linux file systems - frag-up

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
> Can anybody out there familiar with linux filesystem formats tell > me if I need to be concerned with file system fragmentation. I've never had a problem with file-system fragmentation. As long as you leave some space free on the filesystem (this is part of the reason for 5% rese

Bug with libraries?

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file /etc/ld.so.conf did _not_ include the line: /usr/X11R6/lib This was bad; everything linked with the x

Re: pppd and ethernet error (dialup)

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
> Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 > Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: local IP address 194.247.41.27 > Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: remote IP address 194.247.41.30 > Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route to > eth0[0.0.0.0] > So the conn

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
> > This assertion is incorrect. If you want extended partitions, in either > > dos or linux, the 4th primary partition is labeled "extended" and > > the partition information for the extended partitions and the extended > > partitions themselves are contained within /dev/hda4. > > Then how come

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
> > > Boot Begin Start End Blocks System > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native > > > /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap > > > > > > /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native > > > /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended

Re: NE2000 compatible card problem

1996-05-23 Thread John T. Larkin
> Dear Linuxer, > > I have try with several NE2000 compatible cards with 10BaseT and BNC > autodetected. None of them works with the 10BaseT interface but works > fine with the BNC interface. What kind of cards are these? Do they support _both_ 10base-t and 10base-2, or do you have 2 cards, e