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!!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
