RE: [cobalt-users] Installing DigiChat on a RaQ4

[Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:19:47 +0100, First Hosting Sales mumbled something like:
>>Can you confirm steps 11 to 16, as they are scolling on my copy of
>>the
>>email you posted. Especially line 14 - does it have an '&' on the
>>end?

Ian,
Steps 11 and 14 shouldn't be wrapped - it's all one command. Of course depending on the size of your shell terminal screen, it will wrap anyway, but you know what I'm saying.  ;)
On 14 - yes, that is an ampersand on the end.
Down where (I'm not looking at that letter anymore) you start the server and it plops out the [1]XXXX - the screen does *not* say "the server is now running in the background"; that was my interjection. Also, the numbers will be different.

If you get errors, let me know and I'll try to help. DigiChat support isn't much help other than to say "we know it will run on a RaQ4"; and I had to fight my way through errors all by myself. Mostly I have found that errors mean that the path isn't being recognized (log out and log back in, and check the /etc/profile), or that the downloaded copy got corrupted. This happened a LOT, leaving me to think that DigiChat's server isn't all that stable and keeps burping while people are downloading.

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CarrieB
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