Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 06:53:10PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. I guess not then. Can't hurt though. I like to have syslog dump everything to a virtual console (makes it easy to debug things) and that means

Re: ppp log security (was: couldn't match host name or address)

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable (why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M I think he is using pap, and pap-secrets doesn't match the hostname

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M Do you use pon to connect? Check if you have debug in /etc/ppp.options_out (or was it in /etc/ppp/options ? Better put it in both files, I don't recall if pon uses them both). This will give

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: The problem was: When I dial into my ISP, I get a prompt that says: host: here I type ppp then my username and password. How would I get it to type ppp? Would I just change my ppp.chatscript to say? ABORTNO DIALTONE

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
I got it working. Thanks to all that helped. But now another, sorta related question... Now that I can connect to my ISP under Linux, is it possible to connect under Linux then get access from netscape under my Win95 box (their both connected via ethernet)? How would I do this? Brandon

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: I got it working. Thanks to all that helped. But now another, sorta related question... Now that I can connect to my ISP under Linux, is it possible to connect under Linux then get access from netscape under my Win95 box (their both connected via

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Thomson
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I believe there is a kernel option called IP_MASQ that you would be interested in. However, I haven't done this yet (I plan on it when I decide how I will connect my boxes together). Yes! I use it on my system here. My Win3.11 machine acts

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: password \qpassword\q \qpassword\q Incidentally, you don't want the second \q; it will turn echo to the log back on, and the password WILL then go into the log. hamish

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread john
Brandon writes: ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT7454342 host:ppp amwalker \qpassword\q Better: ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT BUSY ATZ OK ATDT7454342 CONNECT

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: password \qpassword\q \qpassword\q Incidentally, you

couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-24 Thread Aaron Walker
When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M There is nothing after

couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-24 Thread Aaron Walker
When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M There is nothing after