dialup in linux
Hello Arvin, I think I recall that you said the grub loader... maybe you are using grub, not lilo? Unfortunately, I don't remember what mkbootdisk did. I think that must have been something that...
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
There are all kinds of pitfalls of using these helper tools. The 'root' requirement goes back to fact that you'll be dinking with network setups which is a no-no for the ordinary user. "A" way around this is SUID, and another is USRCTL. This gets further obfuscated by the helpers to the helper tools provided by the various distributions.
Harold Stevens That is curious. ALL my systems with PCI modems (real ones; i.e., USR 2610B) come in on ttyS4. And they have been this way for at...
A problem that occurs is when the installation program is overly helpful and creates a bogus default route to the world using some non-existent host on the local LAN as the gateway. Red Hat has had this problem since version 2.0 back in 1995, and other distributions aren't much smarter.
Raising the point is fine. It's speculating that drives people nuts.
There used to be a program called QuickPPP (google for quickppp - it's widely available, mainly from Debian mirrors), the last version being 1.2.0 from November 2000. It was a simple script that asked the usual dumb questions, and created a one-liner script which is all you really need to get pppd up and running. However, it lacks the cutesy icons so beloved by windoze users, and fell by the wayside.
compton ~$ wcusr-local-bin-dialinetc-ppp-dialscript etc-ppp-pap-secrets 4 19 168 plus 1usr-local-bin-dialin 1 11 67etc-ppp-dialscript 1 3 22etc-ppp-pap-secrets 6 33 258 total compton ~$
Compare the total size (258 bytes) to the size of any helper tool. When I was on dialup, I used a 'demand' mode script that was run at boot time, what was slightly smaller. Starting an application that needed Internet access automagically brought up the link, and it would be dropped after a settable time of inactivity. As the boot scripts are run as root, the SUID or USRCTL problem doesn't exist.
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