Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-20 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 11:58, David Baron wrote: > 3. ADSL works great now. However I do get disconnects, sometimes often, > sometimes not. "persist" is set is the providers file (and elsewhere). What > else? Warning: this is hearsay. I've seen posts about pppd dying while trying to reconnect. Th

Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:58:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? cron should be taking care of this automatically. Do you shut off your machine when you're not using it? If so, go install anacr

Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:05:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 19 December 2003 11:58, David Baron wrote: > > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? > > man updatedb If it's not being run by default it probably means you turn your computer off at night when cron job

Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 December 2003 11:58, David Baron wrote: > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? man updatedb I'll leave the others to experts... HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 04:58, David Baron wrote: > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? updatedb Make sure you run it as root or else you'll miss quite a few things. > 2. Adobe acrobat reader -- installed is 4.05, yuk! I have a 5.08 but haven't > the foggiest on how to instal

Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread David Baron
1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? 2. Adobe acrobat reader -- installed is 4.05, yuk! I have a 5.08 but haven't the foggiest on how to install it--documentation just says run the script and that needs arguments. Apt-get lists 4.05 as up to date. 3. ADSL works great now. How