Hello to all here.
I am a very new debian user, and I have some questions, as well as I want to introduce myself. My name is Rick Hayner, and I am 52 years of age, totally blind since birth, and also have mild Cerebral Palsy. I have been a debian user since sunday. I'm looking for some information concerning the /etc directory structure. because of the way the confituration utility is written, i am having some problems using it, so I would like to be able to find out where the configuration files for different packages are installed. Any documentation concerning this would be emencely helpful. I have been using slackware for a year and a half, but now that I've used apt-get, there is no way I'm ever changing distros again. I have one other comment. I had to have pon modified, because when it is run as it is installed, there is nothing echoed to the terminal or the console to tell me whether my connection succeded or failed. I had my pon script modified so the -detach parameter was added to the pppd command-line and an & added to the end of it so messages would be displayed not only when I got a successful connection, or if the connection failed, but alsso I am now notified if something happens that I get disconnected from my isp for some reason. Sunday when we were configuring my dial up connection, I had to pick up the receiver of the phone connected to my modem to know that the connection had failed. I don't know how others determine whether things have connected alright or not, but I wrote scripts in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory, and they were run, but did not display the local ip and remote ip addresses like I wanted. Modifying the pon script so that pppd was run with the -detach option and using & to put it in the background solved this problem for me. If anyone has a better suggestion, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks for reading this. -- Rick Hayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member spebsqsa, Baritone Kalamazoo Mall City Chorus. Amateur radio station wa8jqv
