So then Tom Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . . > I didn't see your previous post but I found in working out my own problems > with this script that turning on debugging helps alot. > Uncomment the DEBUG line to read DEBUG=-v. Then you can watch the system > logs (tail -f /var/log/syslog or something similar) and see what fails. > Maybe chat is not picking up your ISP's password prompt. > Tom
Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: login: Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: -- got it Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: send (dsj) Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: timeout set to 45 seconds Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: expect (ssword:) Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: dsj^M Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: Password: Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: -- got it Jan 6 16:16:08 sylvester chat[28930]: send (???????^M) As you can see from the log, it appears to be dawdling when it gets the login: prompt. Any ideas why this would be so? I commented out the PAP/CHAP section so AUTHENTIFY should be standard UNIX login by default, right? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Linux: Put a Penguin in your Processor! (http://www.linux.org)