Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)
"Kapil Khosla" <khoslakapil@lycos.com> writes:
> Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions:
> 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing
> Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able
> to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility.
> Will I need to redo the process I did for root for every user account
> i create ?
You should run adsl-start as one of your boot scripts. I believe the
roaring penguin distribution has an ADSL boot script. You can also
write a ppp script that connects to dsl and calls pppoe. This is what
I am doing and it works quite well. Then once you have a boot script
to start pppoe, you can then use the ip-up.d and ip-down.d in /etc/ppp
to do all kinds of things---start and stop the firewall, run the exim
queue, etc. Once it all works, it is very nice. I believe you can
also run a firewall through pppoe, but I don't know how good it is.
Until or if you choose not to go with a boot script, I believe you
will need to be root to run adsl-start, or else you need to put all
the adsl stuff in a ppp group (dip, I think) and then put the users in
group dip. I think that would work too.
Brian
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