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
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