I am still engaged in trying to get wwwoffle to work. Neo Sze Wee and
Andrew Bishop suggested that I needed to make sure that the daemon
wwwoffled was running and that wwwoffle was online and offline at the
appropriate moments.
We therefore have:
- wwwoffled, the daemon, running or not
- wwwoffle, the program, running or not running, online or offline
- the browser, which can use a specified proxy or not
- the ppp connection, which can be on or not
- a dialer such as kinternet, which can be set to automatically
control wwwoffle or not
This gives very many possible permutations, but only a few of them
sensible, which I believe to have all tried, to no avail.
Then Klaus wrote:
>On 17 Feb 2002 at 20:40, Theo Schmidt wrote:
>... snip ...
>> Feb 13 21:40:25 linux syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
>> Feb 13 21:40:26 linux wwwoffled[415]: WWWOFFLE Demon Version 2.6d
>> (with zlib,with ipv6) started.
>> Feb 13 21:40:26 linux wwwoffled[415]: Failed to bind IPv4 server
>>socket [Address already in use].
>
>This is your problem: There is already a daemon running on port 8080
>(perhaps you started squid ??)
>try netstat -n or lsof to find out ...
However Thomas Michalka wrote that he had this sort of error message
himself and that I could probably ignore it, and Andrew Bishop also
wrote that the message is confusing, but does not necessarly
constitute an error.
Andrew further wrote (and Thomas wrote me something similar):
>TS:
> > Feb 13 21:51:05 linux modify_resolvconf: Service pppd modified
>/etc/resolv.conf. See info block in this file
>
>Here the pppd has changed the contents of the file /etc/resolv.conf ...
>
>> Feb 13 21:51:05 linux wwwoffled[417]: WWWOFFLE Connection from
>>host localhost (::1).
>> Feb 13 21:51:05 linux wwwoffled[417]: WWWOFFLE Online.
>
>> Feb 13 21:53:23 linux wwwoffles[2628]: Unknown host 'www.umwelteinsatz.ch'
>> for server [Name or service not known]. (What I wanted to fetch, Theo)
>> Feb 13 21:53:23 linux wwwoffles[2628]: Cannot open the HTTP
>>connection to www.umwelteinsatz.ch port 80; [Name or service not
>>known].
>
>... and WWWOFFLE fails to do a name lookup.
>
>
>This is because of the common problem with UNIX where changing the DNS
>servers listed in the /etc/resolv.conf file will not have any effect
>on programs that are already running. A more fuller description is
>given in the WWWOFFLE FAQ.
>
>The solution is to stop the /etc/resolv.conf file from changing or you
>will need to restart WWWOFFLE each time that the file is changed.
Well, this seems to be the problem. I have read up in the FAQ and a
book, but do not really understand what I have to do.
/etc/resolv.conf at present is simply an empty file on my system.
Should I write something in there? I have not had to use DNS numbers
with my providers for years: they are determined automatically when
logging on. Does wwwoffle require a dns number written into
resolv.conf?
Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> > Proxy
>> {
>> <http://*> proxy = none
>> ---------------------------
> >
>Should be set to your proxy server. For example:
>
>Proxy
>{
><http://*> proxy = proxy.yourproxy.com:8080
>}
Thomas pointed out to me that proxy = none can be correct, as this
proxy is meant the external one which the provider uses, but this is
not required.
Theo Schmidt
