[SPARCbook] Help - THANKS

[Russell F Maginnis]

Sorry, but I picked that URL off an old document.  Try
http://www.rave.net/t-ppp.html, but remeber, do not follow that advice
where it
disagrees with the Kemper stuff.  For example, there is no need to
remove
etc/hostname.le0, and don't use his Systems entry or his Dialers entry
or you will end up with lockfiles and the modem continually trying to
dial out.  The entries for a Hayes modem 
in the Kemper docs work fine with the internal modem.  As I recall, tip
gets its
modem reference from the Dialers file and you probably have the wrong
entry there if
it hangs.  You may as well just take an hour and type in all of the
Kemper stuff for
a full ppp installation.  Testing the modem with tip is part of that
installation.
The big problem will come in finding the right script to connect to your
provider.
Mine (artnet) didn't know what it used, then told me it used only CHAP. 
It turned
out it used only PAP.  I wrote a HOW-TO on ppp a month or so ago on this
list.  I
know very little, so if it worked for me it will work for anyone.  On
Netscape, glad it worked with Sunder's help.  You might look at
http://www.sun.com/software/ and click on Netscape for Solaris for
problems implementing Communicator on Solaris 2.6 in Open Windows and
CDE.

Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov wrote:

> To sunder at sunder.net:
>
> Thanks, I believe that in the if statement, $0 should be $SHELL.  Here in
> the office I have a machine with Linux and when I used $0 in a test
> program, it returned the name of the program while $SHELL returned
> /bin/bash.  I will find out how Solaris responds this evening.
>
> To Russell F Maginnis:
>
> BTW, the URL "www.tadpole.com/support-trdi/techtips/" does not seem to
> exist??  It may have been discontinued or may be temporarily "broken"???
> ... but www.kempston.net appears to be very useful.
>
> Oscar Farah
>
> sunder <sunder at sunder.net>
> Sent by: sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org
> 12/14/2000 12:58 PM
> Please respond to sparcbook
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>         Subject:        Re: [SPARCbook] Help - THANKS
>
> Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to sunder at sunder.net, I have "bash" installed and working and
> > Netscape working properly as well; and thanks to Russell, I have
> > downloaded a lot of interesting information from http://www.kempston.net which
> I
> > will use to try to get the modem working; in addition I found out
> > in these downloaded files that the PATH variable is defined at boot by
> the
> > file ".dtprofile" located in the home directory.
> >
> >  As I do not have my laptop here; it is at home; I hope that this is
> > correct because I would like to modify the default path.
> >
> > Does ".dtprofile" also contain the selection of which shell to use at
> > boot?  I would like to use the bash shell exclusively.  Thanks
>
> Sadly, no.  At least not with my experimentation.  If you use CDE (the
> Common Desktop Environment which uses .dtprofile) all sorts
> of weird things happen to CDE if you exec or just call bash from
> .dtprofile.
>
> Rather, you should just set the shell field in the passwd file.  Use the
> vipw command to do this. Change /bin/csh or /bin/sh to
> /usr/local/bin/bash for the account you want, then exit.
>
> If you don't know how to use vi, do a search on google.  Basically, the
> cursor keys will work fine.  Use i to enter insert mode
> (there are all sort of other keys.) Press ESC to get out.  If you're not
> in insert mode, you can use x to delete.  When you're done
> editing the file, press ESC, type in :x! and hit enter.  If you made an
> error and don't want to mess up the file, use ESC :q! will
> exit and quit.
>
> I don't think Solaris 2.6 has a chsh command sadly.
>
> But, there is another trick you can do.  If your account is using csh, you
> can change the .login and .cshrc files on the last line
> to say "exec bash" - it might work.  It's worth trying.
>
> If you know shell programming you can add something like this to .profile.
> (This is off the top of my head, so it's likely buggy.)
>
> First, go into bash. Then type in echo $0. This should print either bash
> or /usr/local/bin/bash.  The only box I have available now
> as I type this (OpenBSD says "-bash")  Replace the bash in the if
> statement to this.
>
> Put this line as the last line of your .profile
>
> if [ "$0" != "-bash" ]; then exec /usr/local/bin/bash; fi
>
> You might need to remove the exec in some cases.  CDE is a bit funny about
> changing the shell.  So again, don't do this to the root
> account.  That way, if you get hosed, you can at least login as root and
> fix it. :)
>
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