ppp speed

Well I finally got ppp to work again. Ok, I confess I had to reinstall the os. Anyway I have a question. How do I determine what speed my modem is making the ppp connection at and how do I maximize it? Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Debian as mail server and firewall

Thanks for all the help. I told my friend the basic plan. He will let me know tonight if I have the go ahead. I think he wants to try it himself one last time. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Debian as mail server and firewall

Hi, A friend of mine runs a small (16 machine) ms windows based network. It is a mix of nt and win95. He just had a T1 installed an now wants to setup a mailserver. He has been having some trouble setting up microsoft exchange, so he asked me if I thought LINUX could do the job, and i

Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For example on page 104 of "Learning the Bash Shell" O'reilly there is the

cleaning up bad configuration

Lets suppose I go out to pub one night and come reeling home after 8 or 9 pints of stout. Now when I get home I decide this would be fine time to make some configuration changes on my system. ( in this particular case it was changing the ppp settings for my new isp) So I sit down, login as root an

alias not passed to xterm

My aliases do not seem to be passed correctly to xterm I am using OLVWM. The following alias is in my .alias file "alias xboard='xboard -size small' This does not work from xterm, but it does work if I execute it through a BASH box. This is true even though env in the xterm shows that bash is th

A funny little mistake

I was moving a file and intended to type " mv thefile.tar.gz ~/ " so that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed " mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I tried to "mv ~ normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but

zip drive

how do I use a zip drive with debian? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Static ip address

I have just arranged to get a static ip address from my isp. Does this mean I should now reinstall debian as though I were on a network? also what do I change in my ppp configuration to account for the static address. And lastly this isp uses an automatic ppp so there is no login script ( alt

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: > > The kermit protocol is built into minicom (along with *modem). > The kermit protocol on most communications programs should not be confused with the true kermit program from columbia university. True kermit is a very fast communication p

Where is resolv.conf?

If debian does not use it where do I dns and gateway information. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Setting up x

I have setup x before with little trouble. Now I have tried both XF86Setup and XF86Config. Could anyone tell me what the following error message means and how I might correct it. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11Tra