Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-22 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
diald will allow one to dial manually and start ppp w/out requiring minicom. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-22 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
Eric Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiat PPP, Eric then ask 'pppd' to start? There is a way using minicom, [...] but the cycle: becoming root issuing pppd reading /var/log/messages killing pppd reissuing pppd with another

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eric Liu wrote: Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiate PPP, then ask 'pppd' to start? Sure - use 'minicom' and then exit with Alt-Q and start up PPP with something like 'pppd :' ... Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Emanuele Pucciarelli
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eric Liu wrote: Background: I have gotten 'pppd' to work with a 'chatscript' file. However, I would prefer not to have to type my password into the chatscript file. Thus... I would do: -cut- #!/bin/sh echo -n Type in your password: stty -echo read PASSWORD

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Mark Phillips
Hello! This is more a query than a problem. Hope someone can help! Thanx! Background: I have gotten 'pppd' to work with a 'chatscript' file. However, I would prefer not to have to type my password into the chatscript file. Thus... Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote -- extra stuff deleted -- is getting on my nerves (and I won't let my wife or kids do that...). So what I would like is some graphical front-end to pppd, displaying the status, and with buttons to start/stop a connection. This could be started by root

PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-20 Thread Eric Liu
Hello! This is more a query than a problem. Hope someone can help! Thanx! Background: I have gotten 'pppd' to work with a 'chatscript' file. However, I would prefer not to have to type my password into the chatscript file. Thus... Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-20 Thread Jean Orloff
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:43:54 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Liu) said: Eric Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiate PPP, Eric then ask 'pppd' to start? There is a way using minicom, connecting manually, and then issuing C-A Q to quit minicom without reset, and