Brian Parish wrote: >On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: > >>Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin >>(though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). >> >>Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c >>/etc/bpalogin.conf >> >>now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line >>appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited >>time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i >>attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? >> >>so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port >>5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. >> >>however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and >>attempt again. >> >>two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing >>happens at all. >>2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin >>command from the terminal. >> >>on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip >>addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. >> >>is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a >>continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking >>the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. >> >>any help would be appreciated. >> >Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line >commented out by default that reads: > >localport 5050 > >Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. > >Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact >it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running >when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: > >tail /var/log/messages > >and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will >relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you >require. > >HTH >Brian > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Actually, i now have it working. The config file is setup properly, firestarter is working and i have been connected for more than a few minutes. I didn't understand that it ran as a daemon (i do now), and all i need to do is learn how to configure it to run as soon as i login as my user. But i'll work that out myself. Thanks for all your help brian, i wouldnt have been connected if it weren't for your help.
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