Hi, everyone! After much struggle and turmoil, I have gotten my pppd to quit dying on me as a user! With a thousand thanks to Avery of wvdial fame, here's what I had to do: I added
connect true to my etc/ppp/options file. I also touched both /dev/ttyS1 and my .ppprc file, which might have made a difference, though their effects were not immediate. In any case, I was greatly relieved to finally connect as I was _literally_ ready to do a wipe-and-reinstall when I finally connected. AS an aside, my system has become mostly potato-fied in the process of upgrading things in my desperation to fix the problem (this might have been a contibutor to the fix as well, BTW). My question: would I benefit in any way by just taking the leap and upgrading fully to Potato? I think that I am 12 packages shy, according to apt-get. Just to expose my newbie-ness, potato is aka unstable at this point, right? Now, configuration questions. First, my problems with fetchmail. Before I (probably) upgraded my packages, I was getting errors amounting to "SMTP listener does not like ID [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or some such, at which point it kicks out. Now, I get this error: 116 messages for bob at host.myisp.com reading message 1 of 116 (1039 header octets) .fetchmail: can't even send to bob! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from host.myisp.com fetchmail: Query status=10 Now, from my previous encounter, I gather that something is reporting that my hostname is localhost, which the SMTP setup does not like at my ISP's end. Might this be an exim problem? I am totally lost when it comes to mail handlers in general, and I have never used exim before three days ago, so bear with me :-) Is there a setup program for exim, or should I do the old man-page;edit config;restart exim;crash exim;repeat until I get it working? If so, is there an example exim configuration file? I'll be doing research on this after I send this off, but I decided that I might as well ask while I'm typing :-) Next question: can I change what xterms report for their terminals? When I telnet somewhere, pine does not recognize xterm-debian or rxvt, and I am too lazy to keep changing it every time I telnet somewhere ;-) I am sure that I will have more questions later, but I'll lay off for now. TIA! -Chris -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
