On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote:
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:35 AM
| Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
|
|
| > On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote:
| > | Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is
| misbehaving.
| > |
| > | I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I
| am not
| > | sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it
| > | lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I
| wrote
| > | the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in
| fine, but
| > | can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check
| > | resolv.conf and it is entirely empty!
| > |
| > | Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express
| much
| > | longer. ;-) Thank you,
| > |
| > | /Gustavo.
| >
| > Don't know if this answers your question, but I set up kppp as a regular
| user
| > since I try to do most of my on-line stuff as not root. The only thing I
| have
| > noticed with kppp is that it does not save my user name or my ISP password
| even
| > though I have the checkbox checked (for saving the password). As a result,
| I
| > have to enter this information each time I log onto the internet, but it
| is
| > only a minor inconvenience.
|
| I prefere working online as user as well. About the password issue, I
| suppose that if you logged in as root (setting the options for saving the
| password) once, kppp should be able to "remember" your password next time
| you logged in as user (at leat theoretically -- all I have read about kppp
| tells me that I have first to log in as root, set everything correctly under
| root, etc, and then try logging in as user).
Well, it did in L-M 6.0, but since the uograde to L-M 6.1, kppp requests my
username and password each time I start it to log on to my ISP. I just took it
as a change in security (Linux is after all a multi-user / multi-tasking OS),
and yes, I did set it up in "root" first, but I also had to set it up as my
regular user as well (the set-up window pop'd up the first time I started kppp
as regular user). <shrug>
Ernie
|
| >
| > If yoy start kppp, then select the "setup" button, the acounts dialog will
| > appear. Select the account for your internet connection, and then the
| "edit"
| > button. In the dialog that pops up, select the DNS tab, and enter the
| needed
| > information there. Maybe kppp is removing the DNS information from your
| > resolve.conf because this information is not in kppp?
|
| Just checked this info, it is placed there correctly, but kppp refuses to
| work.
|
| Thanks,
| /Gustavo.
|
|
| >
| > HTH,
| >
| > Ernie
| >
| >
| >
| >
--
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The measure of a man is in his honor
