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- From: devans@ccubb.com (David Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: PPP script help
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 19:30:05
- Organization: Sysop of CCUBB.COM
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960131.7AD8850.11362@ccubb.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ccubb.com
-
- On Mon 29-Jan-1996 10:07a, Ron_Funk wrote:
-
- R> Problem number one... grapevine won't load up, is says that the
- R> socket.library is not setup(it is) and also it is looking for INET: which
-
- Simple! Assign INET: AMITCP:
-
- Thats what worked for me. The refrences to INET: are the same as the root for
- the AmiTCP installation. (I assume you have a assign defined for AmiTCP)
-
- R> Problem number two... newsgroups period, I have tried out MNews and have
- R> actually got it to start to scan the groups but after over 11,000 I run
-
- What are you trying to do, read the news while online or transfer/buffer
- messages to you "local" machine? If its simply reading news, you might try
- doing it from Mosaic.. Several systems out there have it setup on web
- browsers.. A good one is from tka.com. Most web browsers simply need the
- defined value of "nntpserver" (your news.*.* address).
-
- R> Problem number three... Mail seems to be a bit of a problem, it is spooled
- R> at their end under my name only. Tried Airmail and it will get it but then
-
- AmiPop works wonders on my end. (Or use smtp utilities and import it into a
- bbs!)
-
- R> Problem number four... It is not a real problem just don't understand it
- R> very well. On my shell that comes up there a few things that come up and I
- R> don't understand them. Why do I have to type my password in again, it is
- R> supposed to send it first thru the script? I get two localhost: bad
- R> value's, I changed one in the db/hosts to 204.50.61.2 nameserver.
-
- This is a hard one.. What shell are you discussing? A local AMIGA shell or a
- remote shell via your provider? If its the latter, thats normal becuase of
- security. Unless you have a 100% sure connection and secure, USE THE PASSWORD
- (its safer). If its a LOCAL shell that needs you password, you can change
- your startup to something like:
-
- login -f nobody
-
- which would log you in (locally) as nobody.
-
- R> Problem number five... I wish I could dial more than one phone number as
- R> this site has four. I just don't know enough to do it myself. Here is a
- R> copy of the one I am using.....
-
- This is a hard one.. You don't have "labels" in the scripting language
- supported. The designer of ppp.device has hinted that his 2.0 version will
- ahve this ability. You could always re-write your own startnet script in
- Arexx which would do what you wish, however you loose the "niceness" of the
- existing script.
-
- What are you trying to track your time for? If you wished, you could
- re-define startnet and stopnet to the following:
-
- startnet:
- --------------------
- date >>logfile
- actualstartnet ; origional startnet script file
- --------------------
-
- stopnet:
- --------------------
- date >>logfile
- actualstopnet ; origional stopnet script file
- --------------------
-
-
- Hope that helps! I have configured several scripts for various internet
- providers and might be able to help more (if the above doesn't help!)
-