Debian bug report logs - #1212 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1212: ppp configuration ugliness Reply-To: Bruce Perens , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Bruce Perens Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 17:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Mon, 07 Aug 1995 17:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 080716524329297; Mon, 07 Aug 1995 16:52:43 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sfVOK-000DOoC; Mon, 7 Aug 95 09:51 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA12693 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 7 Aug 1995 09:50:59 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sfVN6-000DDtC; Mon, 7 Aug 95 09:49 PDT Message-Id: To: Alvar Bray , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: rdr@tad.micro.umn.edu, bruce@Pixar.com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 1995 10:21:27 PDT." <9508070921.AA19395@charon.meiko.co.uk> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 09:49:47 -0700 From: Bruce Perens I bypassed the normal PPP configuration start it from inittab. The line is almost always connected if I'm awake - whether I'm at work or home, since there's no cost to the call. Pacific Bell must hate me. I think it would be nice to have a script to auto-configure PPP in response to user input. It would be difficult to make that general enough for most users. The script should support dial-on-demand. Want to write it? Bruce ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bruce Perens Subject: Bug#1212: Acknowledgement (was: ppp configuration ugliness) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1212: ppp configuration ugliness Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 12:33:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 08 Aug 1995 12:33:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 080812191219790; Tue, 08 Aug 1995 12:19:12 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sfn62-000Dd7C; Tue, 8 Aug 95 04:45 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA06911 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 8 Aug 1995 04:45:15 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sfmH4-000C0SC; Tue, 8 Aug 95 11:52 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Tue, 8 Aug 95 01:37 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 01:37 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Alvar Bray writes ("Bug#1210: lost bug? ppp configuration ugliness"): > Maybe the solution would be to have a base ppp package that only > contained the binaries, man pages etc. and then to have various ppp > configurations; ppp-static for static lines; ppp-dynamic for my type of > useage; ppp-dip for people who use dip etc. No, I don't think that's a good idea. It puts too much configuration decision-making into the package selection stage. There is limited scope there for assisting the user or for `non-standard' configurations, and this kind of thing makes CDROM distribution very difficult. I think a default configuration script is the way to do. Bruce Perens writes ("Bug#1212: ppp configuration ugliness"): > I bypassed the normal PPP configuration start it from inittab. > The line is almost always connected if I'm awake - whether I'm at > work or home, since there's no cost to the call. Pacific Bell must > hate me. > > I think it would be nice to have a script to auto-configure PPP in > response to user input. It would be difficult to make that general > enough for most users. However, if we are going to provide any auto-configuration at all this is where it should go. Our configuration strategy is sophisticated enough to allow users to do things much more sophisticated than any script we could ever hope to write. A script that does most of the work for most users is better than none at all. > The script should support dial-on-demand. This is the job of a separate program - diald (which also supports SLIP). This is not yet a Debian package. I use 0.4 (in /usr/local) and find it very useful, but I don't have time to maintain it as a Debian package. I saw 0.9 (I think) announced in cola - anyone want to be the maintainer ? Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1212: Info received (was Bug#1212: ppp configuration ugliness) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From thor.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Mon Sep 11 10:40:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0ssCqR-000FBsC; Mon, 11 Sep 95 10:40 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25691 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:40:20 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0ssBbk-000JfCC; Mon, 11 Sep 95 17:21 BST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 17:21 BST From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com Subject: Reassigning some unassigned packages reassign 791 tex &c reassign 1241 adduser reassign 1303 binutils reassign 518 ispell, wenglish reassign 1190 ispell reassign 651 libgrdev reassign 702 findutils reassign 1093 lpr reassign 1087 diffutils reassign 1212 ppp reassign 1102 tar reassign 1252 texlib reassign 421 term ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov