Dialup -tabla rasa

Thomas W. Cranston cranston_tom at asapchoice.com
Tue Jun 28 22:16:19 UTC 2005


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Di, den 28.06.2005 schrieb Thomas W. Cranston um 22:17:
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>>I went over my notes and discovered that they were not as complete as 
>>needed to be. As a result I decided to reinstall FC3, and get a fresh start.
>>
>>I first used the network configuration application to configure the 
>>dialup. This time the modem came up as ttyS4.
>>
>>I got mesage:Cannot activate network device xxxxxxxx Failed to activate 
>>xxxxxxx with error 8
>>
>>Logged on yyyyyy at localhost, I opened a terminal and entered the command 
>>tail -f /var/log/messages, and got cannot open tail -f /var/log/messages 
>>for reading: Permission denied
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>>Someone suggested that I log on to a terminal as Su_-. I entered Su_- at 
>>the command line and got: bash:Su_- command not found
>>
>>Did they mean that I reboot, and enter Su_- at user name prompt?
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>>How and where do I invoke Su_-?
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>It is "su -"! No underscore, "-" is an option and is the short for of
>"-l" (-> man su). And on Linux it matters whether you use lower or
>capital letters.
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>>I understand that it is not wise to make changes to wvdial logged on as 
>>root!
>>
>>I then entered wvdial and got
>>-->WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
>>-->Warning: section[Dialer Defaults] does not exist in wvdial.conf.
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy
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>You need to create a symlink: ln -s /dev/ttySX /dev/modem  (where X is
>the number of the serial device).
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>>I logged out, and then tried to log in, entering Su_- at Username
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>>That did not work, so I logged in as root.
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>>I then entereed wvdial, and got:
>>-->WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
>>-->Warning: section[Dialer Defaults] does not exist in wvdial.conf.
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
>>-->cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
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>>I then entered: /etc/wvdial.conf , and got:
>>bash: /etc/wvdial.conf: Permission denied
>>/etc/wvdial.conf
>>How can I execute the command /etc/wvdial.conf with out getting 
>>permission denied? I am assuming that since that I am logged on as 
>>root at localhost that I would have the permission.
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>vim /etc/wvdial.conf
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>It is a configuration file you need to open with an editor. It is
>nothing to execute.
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>>Is there a way to log onto a terminal as super user, while I am logged 
>>on as xxxx at localhost?
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>See above.
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>Alexander
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How do I edit

vim /etc/wvdial.conf?

it seems to be in a read only state

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