more problems

[dan moylan]

pblm 1:
  i've recently upgraded to rh6.2 and find that things somehow work
  differently.  the most confusing (after i moved /dev/modem from 
  cua1 to ttyS1) is that my shell, bash, seems not the same.  i.e.
  in .profile (and i've removed .bashrc, etc.) i have "set -o vi"
  (i know, real weenies all use emacs, but it's not my cup of tea)
  and it "doesn't take".

  i type "set -o vi" and it still doesn't take!!
  i launch a new bash shell, type "set -o vi" and all is as it used
  to be.  hmmm!

  what's going on?

pblm2:
  i must confess, after more years than you want to know about, i 
  still don't understand the tty devices.  i have been running ppp
  (though now i'm switching to an rcn cable modem which seems to
  work fine, with pmfirewall) and getting my mail with my local
  Mail::Pop3Client perl script for three years now.  when i send a
  fax using efax, depending on i don't know what, my ppp-on script
  no longer works.  going in with cu (old standby) an atd###-####
  results in "got hangup".  then sometimes, with cu i can do "atz0"
  and it's fixed.  but sometimes, i need to halt, power down, and
  reboot to get things working normally again.  since i upgraded to
  rh6.2, i don't even need to run efax to get screwed up.

  what's going on?  there is so much i don't understand.

a continually embarassed,
dan moylan
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