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From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] connecting to ISP with PAP?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:21:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13vIde-000OGo-0B@finch-post-11.mail.demon.net> (raw)

> 2.  Your command to connect to Demon UK includes '$host:$pass' ,
>     Should I put my login name and password directly in the
>     command line here or somewhere else?

You can type them directly in the command line, or set them as
shell (rc) variables if you are calling ip/ppp in a script.

> Once I get the PAP solved, I hope
> to connect to the internet and get email working.

I don't know of a simple step-by-step guide for this; you will want
to look at ndb(6), listen(8), mail(1) and smtpd(6).

-- Richard



             reply	other threads:[~2000-11-13 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-13 12:21 Richard Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-20 21:11 David Gordon Hogan
2000-11-21  9:37 ` Greg Shubin
2000-11-14 21:27 Richard Miller
2000-11-14 20:24 presotto
2000-11-14 20:18 rob pike
2000-11-14 20:43 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-14 19:55 rob pike
2000-11-14 20:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-14 19:51 David Gordon Hogan
2000-11-14 20:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-20 10:54 ` Greg Shubin
2000-11-14 19:41 presotto
     [not found] <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2000-11-14 19:19 ` David Gordon Hogan
2000-11-14 19:45   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-14 20:08   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-11-14 18:50 William Staniewicz
2000-11-13 19:37 William Staniewicz
2000-11-13 15:49 presotto
2000-11-13 17:22 ` William Staniewicz
2000-11-13 15:35 William Staniewicz
2000-11-11 14:08 nigel
2000-11-09 15:30 Richard Miller
2000-11-09 15:01 Richard Miller
2000-11-11  9:23 ` William Staniewicz
2000-11-08 22:53 William Staniewicz

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