Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

[eric brown <ericdebianlists@yahoo.com>]

Thank you for your help. 
> 
> Going to www.debian.org and following the books link
> under
> Documentation gives:
> 
> http://www.debian.de/doc/books

I installed Linux-cookbook on my system about one week
ago, and it is really helpful.

I taught about buying a book.  But searching through
the list (and Amazon) I found that all books in
English date from the Potato days...

Is there a recent book that you would recommend?

> > > 
> > > Get pon dsl-provider to work for users:
> > > 
 
> To get the dsl to reconnect whenever it dies you can
> tell pppd to be
> presistent and to try for an unlimited number of
> errors. In theory that should keep you online
>forever, in praxis there have been report
>that it sometimes fails. A realy save way is to get
>init to restart dsl whenever it stops. Add the
>following to your inittab if you want that:

>9:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd nodetach call
dsl-provider >>/var/log/dsl 2>&1

I modified successfully inittab!  It works well thank
you... I can now unplug, close my modem and restart
everything an will have the internet connection to
come alive again automatically!

but the pon-poff mystery is still on and got weirder
(I investigated this both before and after modifying
inittab)

1- Even if a user is member of all the available group
they can use the pon or poff command but: in the case
of pon it does nothing and poff -a (even when it is
obvious that the connection is on) returns - no
running ppp process

2- Root can stop and start the connection but if I
unplug for more than a few minutes it does not work
anymore and I have to reboot the computer.

3- Having modified inittab deosn't seem to affect this
behavior.  Even if inittab is set to respawn the
connection, it will crash if I fuss around with the
pon and poff command as root

4- this problem is present both in the KDE and in the
console login environment  

But anyway, I now have an automatic connection and it
is a lot better than having to start the connection
manually from the console everytime or by rebooting. 
But this is still weird...

Thx for your help again!!!

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