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Re: setup PPP for users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tfreeman)
Sat Nov 16 12:36:08 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:33:58 -0500 (EST)
From: tfreeman <tfreeman@vnet.net>
To: Bob Horvath <bob@horvath.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611152347.PAA12520@babel.enteract.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
And now - time to appologise for an error:
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Bob Horvath wrote:
> On 15 Nov 96 at 17:33, redhat-list@redhat.com wrote:
>
> > Top of the head, and I've been having to get a _lot_ of help from
> > this list, however -
> >
> > 1)Read/Reread the ppp HOWTO. True, I keep missing some of the good
> > stuff in the HOWTO's, but I'm learning.
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > 4) run dip with a script. You will need to set uid root and give
> > yourself as a user execute permisiions.
> >
>
>
> Per the HOW-TO, use chat instead of dip.
>
> "3.4 This document at present does NOT cover...
>
> ...
> Using DIP to make PPP connections
> Use chat instead...
> ..."
I rather expected to get caught on that; 10 minutes after I posted. 8-(.
The comment was neither properly written, nor properly expanded.
The intent (completely obscured here) was to admit that I've used dip to
good effect in the past, and personally found dip easier to use that a
script with chat & pppd.
My appologies for sowing confusion and poor misinformation.
Tom Freeman
>
> ________________________________________
>
> Bob Horvath
> bob@horvath.com
> http://www.horvath.com
> ________________________________________
>
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