Re: pon oddities - ppp status now works: timing issue

2008-04-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:09:49PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > ... And following up to my remaining problem, it is now solved. ip-up.local was executing the command that popped up the pppstatus window too quickly. The ppp link was not completely up yet and so pppstatus couldn't see it. A "sleep 1"

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:28:44AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:34:33PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > $ /usr/bin/X11/xhost + > > Yes, I had done that. > > > Then as root in a terminal: > > > # export DIS

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-08 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, NN_il_Confusionario shared this with us all: >--} /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz >--} section "How do I run an X client as root when the X session is run by a > user?" --} >--} (this is the placement in sarge, I have not checked where the FAQ is > now) I don't know where

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-08 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:34:33PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > $ /usr/bin/X11/xhost + > Yes, I had done that. > > Then as root in a terminal: > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 > This was the missing piece! I was missing the user name. Nice that

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-08 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, A. F. Cano shared this with us all: > >--} I've also tried without su.  The result is the same: > >--} > >--} konsole: cannot connect to X server > >--} > >--} And this is even after I've typed > >--} > >--} xhost + > >-

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-07 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, A. F. Cano shared this with us all: >--} I've also tried without su.  The result is the same: >--} >--} konsole: cannot connect to X server >--} >--} And this is even after I've typed >--} >--} xhost + >--} >--} from a regular user console. You may need to do the following: As

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Hans
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong nameservers were my fir

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Kent West
Hans wrote: Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong nameservers were my first thought, but they are dynamic, not static

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: > Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in > with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or > any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong > nameservers were my first thought, bu

Re: pon dsl-provider

2003-12-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:15:58AM -0200, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > I thought pppconfig was only for dial-up conections. Well, that's what PPP in general is for. Some DSL providers have decided it's great for DSL as well (it isn't), because i

Re: pon dsl-provider

2003-12-26 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Em Sex 26 Dez 2003 03:40, s. keeling escreveu: > Incoming from Rafael Alexandre Schmitt: > > Is it possible start 'pon dsl-provider' as a normal user(not root)? > > I'm already on dialout and dip groups . > > Yes, as Paul mentions, pppconfig should fix it. Become familiar with > /etc/ppp/... Hi,

Re: pon dsl-provider

2003-12-26 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Rafael, For normal users to be able to start "pon dsl-provider", /usr/sbin/pppoe has to be suid root. You can set that like this: chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppoe After you've done that, permission levels should look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /usr/sbin/pppoe -rwsr-xr--1 root di

Re: pon dsl-provider

2003-12-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rafael Alexandre Schmitt: > > Is it possible start 'pon dsl-provider' as a normal user(not root)? > I'm already on dialout and dip groups . Yes, as Paul mentions, pppconfig should fix it. Become familiar with /etc/ppp/... -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuffic

Re: pon dsl-provider

2003-12-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 11:56:10PM -0200, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Is it possible start 'pon dsl-provider' as a normal user(not root)? > I'm already on dialout and dip groups . Use pppconfig if you can't get it to work. Though, ultimately, y

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:51:31PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: > >Paul E Condon writes: > > > >>Look at the diald package. > > > > > >Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. > > I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the und

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the undemand->hangup that is proving trickier, since this ISP sends all kinds of crandom carp

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Morse (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Bummer, so when root starts up ppp0 at boot time, there's no way for > the user to shut it down. Guess we won't be using /etc/init.d/ppp > anymore. Maybe configuring sudo to allow users to run poff with root permissions can solve that problem. b

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:18:43PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >>All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now > >>when > >>users run "pon demand-wvdial"... > > > > ^ > > I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdi

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler wrote: All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdial, because ppp calls "wvdial --chat" to negotiate the login, and because its theoreti

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
> All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when > users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ Explain, please. > Similarly, when poff is run as user, and pon had been called previously > by root, it complains thusly: /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill faile

Re: Pon works; KPPP doesn't

2003-02-02 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: Kent writes: I'm actually beginning to be a bit disappointed in kppp, thinking it maybe doesn't have this capability. Why do you want to use it? Because I'm setting this machine up for someone else who has already decided to use KDE and that "Internet Dialer" (KPP

Re: Pon works; KPPP doesn't

2003-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > Since /etc/ppp/options specifically says to not do this... Do it anyway. It's only a security risk for incoming connection. > That's assuming that kppp has some mechanism for doing so. I doubt that it does. > I'm actually beginning to be a bit disappointed in kppp, thinking it >

Re: Pon works; KPPP doesn't

2003-02-02 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: Kent writes: How can I set this option, either globally for all users for all dial-up accounts,... By editing /etc/ppp/options and replacing 'auth' with 'noauth'. Thanks for the reply; I should have been more specific. Since /etc/ppp/options specifically says to no

Re: Pon works; KPPP doesn't

2003-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > How can I set this option, either globally for all users for all dial-up > accounts,... By editing /etc/ppp/options and replacing 'auth' with 'noauth'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: pon poff authority

2002-12-25 Thread John Hasler
daves debian writes: > If root calls pon, it with ppp_on_boot in /etc/ppp then a user cannot stop > pppd with poff > However if the user calls pon, it works, poff stops pppd That's how it is intended to work. One user should not be able to kill another's connection. > Due to my setup, I realy

Re: "%pon" can't connect (with syslog )

2002-12-21 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
Hello all, I got kernel 2.4.18 and compiled it. Since this, I'm not getting to connect at my internet provider. If I boot with the older kernel image (2.2pci standard installation Debian 3.0) I get to connect, using the sames config files of ppp or wvdial... I think to be some option of

Re: '%Pon' can't connect

2002-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Rodrigo writes: > Does anybody knows what is going on ? Without more information, no. Post the output of the plog command and copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Mask any passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSU

Re: '%Pon' can't connect

2002-12-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rodrigo F. Baroni wrote: Hello all, When I type '%pon' to get connect at my internet server it do the call, send the user name and passwd, but disconnect after this. Does anybody knows what is going on ? Rodrigo I don't have a clue, and I doubt others will either based upon th

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-10 Thread John Hasler
Andrew R Reid writes: > ATZ does a lot more than ATM0! I'm aware of that. Nonetheless, replacing ATZ with ATM0 will almost certainly work fine. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

RE: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew R Reid
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing > > > John Schmidt writes: > > Try this for the #modeminit: > >

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:31:26PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Carel Fellinger writes: > > Could it be some DNS query? > > Such as a browser tab loaded with to an auto-updating Web site? Or exim or fetchmail doing some name lookup, or... -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread John Hasler
John Schmidt writes: > Try this for the #modeminit: > # modeminit > '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 > the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. Just replace the ATZ with ATM0. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Carel Fellinger writes: > Could it be some DNS query? Such as a browser tab loaded with to an auto-updating Web site? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:34:55PM -0500, Chip Rose wrote: ... > I've deleted all entries to exim in cron.weekly and cron.daily, the only > places I found any reference to exim, and it still dials in every five > minutes. For now, I'll have to just let it dial away until I find the > answer, but w

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:03:11PM -0500, Chip Rose wrote: > > From the following syslog entry, it looks like the only thing going on > > during the time it keeps trying to reconnect by itself, is exim is doing > > something. I'll read up on it to see if it c

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:03:11PM -0500, Chip Rose wrote: > From the following syslog entry, it looks like the only thing going on > during the time it keeps trying to reconnect by itself, is exim is doing > something. I'll read up on it to see if it can be removed or modified, > but for now I've

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
On 9 Dec 2002, Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:37, Chip Rose wrote: > > My modem won't stop redialing periodically, even though I've got > > inactivity timeout set for 300 seconds. A few minutes later, it dials in > > again, and does it non-stop throughout the day, unless I kill the > >

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Schmidt wrote: > Try this for the #modeminit: > # modeminit > '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 > > the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. > > > # modeminit > > '' ATZ > > I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything > to do with some ip6 hosts lo

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Ludwig
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:37, Chip Rose wrote: > My modem won't stop redialing periodically, even though I've got > inactivity timeout set for 300 seconds. A few minutes later, it dials in > again, and does it non-stop throughout the day, unless I kill the > connection with poff. Demand dialing is

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread John Schmidt
Try this for the #modeminit: # modeminit '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. > # modeminit > '' ATZ I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything to do with some ip6 hosts lookup??? Just taking a wild guess. I hope someone will correct m

Re: pon: unwanted SIGHUP after connect

2001-12-04 Thread John Hasler
tom schuetz writes: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.17 to 2.4.9. > Pon used to work; now it works and...immediately hangs up. Did you upgrade ppp as well? 2.4 kernels require 2.4 pppd. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Pon

2001-10-08 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Michael Grover wrote: I have configured ppp on my machine to dial out and have setup a fire wall script using ipChains. All my home computers access the internet fine. (soon to have DSL setup, waiting on phone company) All is working good except, I use pon to connect, after I have connetced,

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
gerard robin writes: > "pon" is a very simple script: > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} > I think that the script : > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider > would work too. 'exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider' would always use the connection named 'provider'. Pppconfig allows you to create a

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:11:25AM +, gerard robin wrote: > "pon" is a very simple script: > > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} > > I think that the script : > > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider > > would work too. > > can someone explain me the meaning of ${1;-provider} Here, i

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, gerard robin wrote: gr> hello, gr> sorry for this silly question, gr> gr> "pon" is a very simple script: gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} gr> gr> I think that the script : gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider gr> gr> would work too. gr> gr> can someo

Re: pon allowing modem to auto redial on disconnect

2001-06-20 Thread John Hasler
Mark writes: > Am I to presume that this ['persist'] means auto redial (as in persist - > keep trying) Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: pon / pppd

2001-04-09 Thread redgirl
- Original Message - From: "redgirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian" Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:03 PM Subject: pon / pppd > Hi, > > I have an embarrassing problem with pon. > > It dials, negotiates and then exits on NO CARRIER. > > I've set up the connection with pppconfig, usin

Re: pon / pppd

2001-04-08 Thread John Hasler
redgirl writes: > Here is /etc/ppp/peers/provider > ... > connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/ipr" ^^^ Here you are telling pppd to call chat with /etc/chatscripts/ipr, not with /etc/chatscripts/provider. What does /etc/chatscripts/ipr

Re: pon / pppd

2001-04-05 Thread John Hasler
redgirl writes: > I have an embarrassing problem with pon. Post /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the plog command. Munge passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Ilya Martynov
CG> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant >> files are in it. The procedure outlined above adds users to it. >> You can do the same thing with 'adduser'. CG> A user in `dip' is allowed to call all the providers. Is there

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Christoph Groth
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant > files are in it. The procedure outlined above adds users to it. > You can do the same thing with 'adduser'. A user in `dip' is allowed to call all the providers. Is there a simple wa

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 26 March 2001 22:16, John Hasler wrote: > Bud Rogers writes: > > I think debian is set up that way by default. Just add the select > > users to the group dialout. > > 'dialout' is for serial port users. 'dip' is for ppp users. OK, I missed that distinction. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROT

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-26 Thread Hogan
> > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects > > OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can > > be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to > > be changed with permissions. > > I think debian is set up that way by default

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Bud Rogers writes: > I think debian is set up that way by default. Just add the select users > to the group dialout. 'dialout' is for serial port users. 'dip' is for ppp users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-26 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 26 March 2001 20:44, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects > OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can > be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to > be changed with permissions. I think

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-26 Thread John Hasler
L.V.Gandhi writes: > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects OK. > But how to make it work for some selected users. Run pppconfig, select 'Change', select the relevant connection (you might have only one), select 'Advanced', select 'Add-User', and add a user. > If a gr

Re: pon

2001-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:46:52PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > Hello, > I am new on the debian-user list. I run potato since 5 months. > > When I run "pon" I would like the modem to be silent. > Can someone explain to me how to do that or give me some indications > where to find the documentation

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At > present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions, > commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser dip. > Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user get

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Tom, Another solution and one I prefer is to use the dial on demain feature. This will automatically start the dialup link once a call is made outside your domain. Works VERY well here using the kernel 2.2.17. Best of luck tweeking. On Friday 12 January 2001 10:25, Thomas H. George wrote:

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-12 Thread matthew
All you need to do is to make your four users members of the dip group. If you used pppconfig to set up your dial up networking then this has the options to add users to dip, or just issue 'adduser dip'. Matthew On 12 Jan, Thomas H. George wrote: > On a stand-alone system four users need access

Re: PON configuration

2000-11-20 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:46:44AM -0500, Dan Hutchinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I have had a little time and now have the base Debian system installed > on my PC. I am trying to configure pon to dial into my company, but > it doesn't recognize the modem. I have an Atlantiz PCI call-wai

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message > >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command > >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection > >is made. > > I just want to ask for somet

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message > >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command > >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection > >is made. > > I just want to ask for somet

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:28:48AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > 1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff > >my modem speakers. > > > > Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 I have: '' AT

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread John Hasler
Christopher W. Aiken writes: > How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff > my modem speakers. Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', go to 'Modeminit', and change the initialization string to whatever you want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
> 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection >is made. I just want to ask for something close to what is asked here. I would be pleased to have a script like po

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > 1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff >my modem speakers. > Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 Francois

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-09 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > there is something like the "dip" group (i think), to which you would add > users, which are allowed to dial in. "dip", it is. > > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell > > me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-08 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? > > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell > me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I tried renaming i

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-07 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? Add the user you want to have dialup access to the group 'dip' e.g. (as root) adduser jon dip user jon can then use pon/poff > > Also, I want to av

Re: pon dial-up and xdm

2000-05-07 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing > to root everytime. Is there a way round this? > there is something like the "dip" group (i think), to which you would add users, which are allowed to dial in. > Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can so

Re: pon and normal users.

2000-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > How can i let normal users run pon? Put them in the 'dip' group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

RE: pon and normal users.

2000-04-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Apr-2000 16:08:17 Kent Nyberg wrote: > How can i let normal users run pon? Add the users to the "dip" group in /etc/group That should do it. -- Andrew

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On 23 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atray >What packages are pon and pppconfig in? atray > pon - ppp pppconfig - pppconfig (slink, not sure about potato) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetra

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What packages are pon and pppconfig in? > > Adam Try 'dpkg -S pon' and 'dpkg -S pppconfig' hth, kent

Re: pon problems with Potato

2000-01-04 Thread Douglas Baker
I also had this problem. The AT&F didn't work for me. After some digging, it looks like my 16550A was configured as a 16450. I re-ran setserial and forced it to a 16550A, and it was fine after that. -Doug On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-24 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Clyde Wilson wrote: > > /etc/chatscripts/provider > > # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 1.9.3beta2.0. > # Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them. > # > # ispauth PAP > # abortstring > ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO > DIAL

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks John, Here they are: /etc/ppp/peers/provider # This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 1.9.3beta2.0. # # hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" debug /dev/ttyS0 115200 defaultroute noipdefault user Pxx remotename provider ipparam provider /et

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
"not 8-bit clean" usually means that the chatscript is not succeeding in convincing the ISP to start ppp. Post your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider files. Munge any passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Todd Suess
I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I cured it by using AT&F as my init string in pppconfig. Once I did that I never got the error again. Regards, Todd At 11:38 AM 12/23/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec 2

Re: pon script

1999-11-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I > didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. > Please help. > Chain of instructions ? Perhaps the link is not down completely, or some lo

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
pppd will log to /var/log/messages include an excerpt from there when you post, if you need to it should tell u exactly wahts goin on nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in arodri >tty0, now, some times whe

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Sorry, is ttyS0, rushed to write. That is not the problem, remember, it works at times Pollywog wrote: > On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I >

RE: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I > didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. > Please help. Do you mean ttyS0 ? Could that be th

Re: pon/poff for ordinary user.

1999-06-09 Thread Cliff W. Draper
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > addgroup dip > > Change/correct persmission of the following if not already set, well > this is what I have and it works for me, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd > 118 -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip119004 Apr 5 06:40 /usr/sbin/pppd* > [E

Re: pon/poff for ordinary user.

1999-06-09 Thread Raphael Alla
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have > to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net. > Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscrib

Re: pon/poff for ordinary user.

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote about "pon/poff for ordinary user." > I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have > to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net. > Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans > > Add the use

Re: pon/poff for ordinary user.

1999-06-09 Thread Stephane Abondance
> I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have > to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net. > Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Put your user

Re: pon probs

1999-05-27 Thread John Hasler
tf writes: > I just did pppconfig, then pon... I get somthing real close to "can't > open shared libraries...libpwdb.so.0 ...does not exist... (I know that's > not the exact message, but hopefully its close enough...) Sounds like you have installed ppp-pam and somehow managed to not install a libr

Re: pon & .ppprc

1999-05-26 Thread Joe Raube
Same format as /etc/ppp/options. -Joe > O.K. When I try to dial my isp with pon, I get the old "can't find ~/.ppprc" > error. I have tried to find some information on the format of this file to no > avail. If one of you could point to a source for this info I would appreciate > it. Thanx > > Ben

Re: pon & .ppprc

1999-05-26 Thread John Hasler
Ben Lutgens writes: > O.K. When I try to dial my isp with pon, I get the old "can't find > ~/.ppprc" error. It's a known bug in pppd. Create an empty .ppprc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PON question. was [Re: Lost PCCard modem]

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Robert Kerr wrote: > My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was > recognized and dialed just fine--now when I run 'pon' I get: > pppd 2.3.5 started by bob > tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) > Exit. What happens when you run pon as root? What serial port is your modem on

Re: pon permission problems

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote: > The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael' > user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of > group pid and dialout. > > When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:

Re: pon

1998-12-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
What you mean up? You mean, keep connection up 24/7? In this case, it's a limitation of the ISP, which might have a preset time limit, and not a pon fault that you get kicked off. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | A

RE: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-10-04 Thread David Karlin
> -Original Message- > From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 10:35 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped > > > > On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote: > >

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
At 01:27 AM 10/1/1998 -0400, Phillip Neumann wrote: >Kent West wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: >> > >> > 1) ponok. (connecting) >> > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) >> > 3) pon

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kent West wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: > > > > > > 1) ponok. (connecting) > > > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) > > > 3) pon NOT ok (*) > > > > > > For pass

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Beattie
> > Just a guess, and probably not a very good one, but maybe you need to add > > an initialization string to your script that resets the modem? > > > > Hello, > > such as ATsomething?? and where? in /etc/ppp/peers/provider ??? > > [i forgot all the commands used by and files runned by pon. (c

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: > > > > 1) ponok. (connecting) > > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) > > 3) pon NOT ok (*) > > > > For pass stage 3, i must put a stage 2.5 that

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