On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jeremie Wood wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been playing with the PPP over SSH options in the dialout module, > but I've run into a slight snag. The problem is that when Linuxconf > tries to set up the connection it calls ssh with the flags "-r -E ...", > neither of which ssh supports (I've checked both ssh 1.2.26 and 2.0.9). > Which version of ssh was used for the development of this module? Would > it be possible to modify the module to support the current versions? You need a patched ssh. this patch is very very old. Don't know why it never made it in ssh. You can grab an src.rpm of a mpdified 1.2.26 ssh with that patch applied from ftp.solucorp.qc.ca/pub/misc. > Something else that I noticed: Linuxconf, by default, assumes that ssh > is in /usr/bin/ssh but on my machine I have it installed in > /usr/local/bin/ssh. But when I set up and tried to activate the link, > Linuxconf didn't warn me that ssh wasn't in the expected location and I > had to sort it out from the error messages printed to the console. Now > I'm thinking this is a bit of a design flaw. It's maybe a small thing, > but fixing small things like this can sometimes save a lot of > aggravation. I was thinking maybe daemon_find() could be modified to do > a quick check of whether the file exists and just pop up a small error > message if it can't find it. Just an idea. I will check that. In the mean time, you can reconfigure linuxconf using "Control file and systems/all commands and daemon" -------------------------- Jacques Gelinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
