Hi,
Callback - or dialback (as it is otherwise known) is when you call a
computer - enter your own modem phone number and it then calls you back!!
Saves on the phone bill and allows you to do remote administration without
having to pay high phone bills (in South Africa - it is a problem).
I found a package on freshmeat called dialback - it is a set of scripts
that handle this sort of thing - but - I have a problem - the log file
gives this:
Apr 17 15:15:31 tag mgetty[1012]: failed timeout dev=ttyS0, pid=1012, caller='none',
conn='', name=''
Apr 17 15:16:16 tag mgetty[1091]: data dev=ttyS0, pid=1091,
caller='none',conn='38400', name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='ppp'
Apr 17 15:16:17 tag PAM_pwdb[1091]: (login) session opened for user ppp by LOGIN(uid=0)
Apr 17 15:16:19 tag PAM_pwdb[1091]: (login) session closed for user ppp
Apr 17 15:16:20 tag mgetty[1117]: TIOCMBIS failed: Input/output error
Apr 17 15:16:20 tag mgetty[1117]: cannot turn off soft carrier: Input/output error
Apr 17 15:16:20 tag mgetty[1117]: tcgetattr failed: Input/output error
Apr 17 15:16:20 tag mgetty[1117]: cannot get TIO: Input/output error
Apr 17 15:16:36 tag pppd[1120]: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root
My question s how do you run pppd as aother user - currently I have a user
ppp - which is used to log into the server - but the last line is the
killer - ???
I can run the dialback script as root - it works well - but ???
I tried placing the ppp user into a root group and then tried - still no
luck
Any suggesions - comments??
Thanks again
Tonino
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, TAG wrote:
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> >
> > HI ALL,
> >
> > Firstly - is there a searchable list archive???
> >
> > Secondly and more importantly - how do you do callback on a redhat 6.1
> > linux system???
>
> What in the name of Babbage is callback? If you can tell us very
> specifically what you want your machine to do, it is probably pretty
> easy to string a few programs together and - maybe you will need a chat
> script. chat scripts are easy. Until I know what it is, I won't
> speculate on how to do it.
> >
> > I have looked and looked and am going to go insane :))
> >
> > PLEASE SOMEBODY - help ???
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tonino
> >
> >
> Lawson
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>
>
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