Re: Diald Setup
Russell Rademacher wrote:
> Well... from the documenations, it seems that diald.options, and
> diald.conf is missing. Everything else seems to be in the right place except
> for those two.
Is there a diald.options in /usr/doc/diald/examples ? YOu could copy that to
/etc/diald/ and edit that.
Don't know about diald.conf
>
>
> Secondly, I tried to get it to work from my little editing and it does
> not work at all. Heck.. I fired up lynx and got this message: Alert!: Unable
> to connect to remote host. Now... what I understand, diald's purpose is to
> make a connection either by ISDN or 56K modem when you do TCP/IP query from the
> box.
>
> So... is there some areas that need to be configured beside diald to
> make the system work properly? I am sort of lost here and I am considering
> un-installing the diald and do a installation by source instead to make it work
> since the debianized version do not work and the documenations from the diald's
> website says quite a few things differently here as well. I am not trying to
> put down Debian. Quite the opposite but this is the first gripes I came across
> with this one since I have used Debian for past few months and had no problems
> setting up few different areas. This diald is the new project and this baffled
You must have slip support in the kernel along with ppp.
HTH
>
> me. :)
>
> On 15-Apr-99 John Hasler wrote:
> > Russell Rademacher writes:
> >> I would appreciate some assistance on getting the Diald working. It
> >> seems that some files are missing to make it a complete installation from
> >> the debian file.
> >
> > What seems to be missing? I had to edit /etc/diald/options, but everything
> > was present.
>
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> Date: 15-Apr-99 Time:18:18:25
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