Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it posible to make the use of deferent resolve.conf for deferent > providers automatic?
Yes. What I do is create files relevant to the different providers I use - there are three essential files for me: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/chatscrips/provider and /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. I then have /etc/resolv.conf.eidosnet, /etc/resolv.conf.freeserve etc., /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.eidosnet, /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.freeserve and so on so I have the appropriate configuration files for each provider I use. It is a really simple matter then of having an executable script for each provider which copies the files around. Here is an example for one IP, eidosnet: cp /etc/resolv.conf.eidosnet /etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/chatscripts/provider.eidosnet /etc/chatscripts/provider cp /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.eidosnet /etc/mail/sendmail.cf I call this file dial.eidosnet and I made it executable so all I do to log on to eidosnet is run it and everything else falls into place. My /etc/chatscripts/provider.eidosnet file looks like this: ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" "" ATW2DT08453331611 ogin "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" word \qXXXXXXX XXXXXXX is, of course, my password. This system works flawlessly, as long as your permissions are OK on the files involved. I make sure that as a user I am a member of the dialout group, mail group etc.. and that the group has the ability to write to the files and directories involved. The programmers out there will see all this as incredibly clumsy, but as a non-programmer I am just pleased it all works so well!! Take care. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux v.2.1
