On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:03:38AM +0000, Charles Angelich wrote: > >All the Freenet lines were busy, so I had to use my commercial > >ISP account (where I pay by the minute). > > I had thought those pay by the hour ISPs were long dead?
Several of the local independent ISP's around here still sell blocks of time (and also offer shell accounts). Depending on the plan, you normally have to use up the purchased time in 6 months or a year. However, I bought a few hundred hours back in '96 when there was no such restriction, so I'm grandfathered, and have 30-40 hours left which I now use sparingly. > >If you continue to have problems with eznet, and want to > >try chat, I can put chat.gz (8k) and ppp-isp.tgz (620 bytes) > >in <http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/baslinux/>. > > Too much time has passed and I can't remember all that I did > to replace EZNET. Using what you suggest might relieve the > stress of trying to remember filenames and directories here. > > >There's no "pppsetup" or scripts for this, so all you have > >to do is edit the config files (with pico) in an appropriate > >place and run pppd from the command line. I won't bother saying > >any more until I know someone is actually going to use this. > > If you put the files there I will try them. Right now, I'm working on a hack of Steven's pppsetup script to automate this a bit, so for the time being look for "do-chat.tgz" in <http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/basiclinux/>, which contains: /usr/sbin/chat /usr/sbin/pconfig <==== script to edit and save the following /etc/resolv.conf to floppy (in ppp-isp.tgz). /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/chatscript /etc/ppp/pap-secrets [This uses static DNS in /etc/resolv.conf. So-called dynamic DNS also works (usepeerdns in /etc/ppp/options), but requires copying or linking the resulting /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf.] Jst copy do-chat.tgz to / , "zcat do-chat.tgz | tar xvf -", and then run pconfig. Of course, the first time, you'll have to edit the dummy settings. > >[1] On my HD version I installed the Slack 7.1 sysklogd.tgz > >package, but I guess I didn't really have to. > > I had to add something to BL to be able to monitor the process > of authentication etc. but I don't recall what it was anymore. > I used a second client to watch the logs as the dialup progressed. "tail -f /var/log/messages" works for me. Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
