[UFO Chicago] ppp0 interface times out at boot

[Nate Riffe]

Quoting John Kilbourne:
> After every boot, I have to type adsl-start to get my internet 
> access. What is the way to set that in an etc file or some sort of 
> profile? Will that keep my ppp0 from hanging my boot? 
> 
> Thanks.
> John
> 

There should be a file called /etc/rc.local or /etc/init.d/rc.local.
Stick the command (including the fully-qualified path to it) in that
script.

-Nate

> 
> 
> ------------------ Reply Separator --------------------
> Originally From: Larry Garfield <lgarfiel@students.depaul.edu>
> Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] what draws you here?
> Date: 01/28/2002 11:12pm
> 
> 
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
> > apt-get!  No, really, I've never reinstalled Debian, or had the
> > slightest desire to do so, except when I replaced the main HD.  I 
> have
> > 1253 packages installed, and it still works fine -- admittedly 
> there's
> > probably a lot of junk I don't need, but that's not really the 
> point.  I
> > don't have to practice self-control when installing software.  I 
> can't
> > do that in Windows.  Those source tarballs are what make repackaging
> > possible.  Sure, maybe 75% of Windows programs can be installed 
> without
> > effecting system stability.  Just like maybe 75% of the programs I 
> want
> > on Linux are packaged in Debian (more, actually).  But they don't 
> tell
> > you which Windows programs are going to slowly eat your system 
> alive.
> 
> True, but by the same token you can find an awful lot of crap for 
> Linux
> systems, too.  It generally won't kill your system, quickly or slowly,
> because the fundamental architecture is unquestionably more resilient
> and more stable.  The problem is that the cost of that increased
> reliability is you have to know a lot more about what you're doing 
> than
> you do with Windows.  I'm not convinced that is inherent in the
> software.  I DO, however, believe that it is the "fault" of the FS/OS
> attitude.  There is a very strong "by geeks, for geeks" streak in the
> Unix-oid community at large (including the GNU folks, the Open Source
> people, the hard-core old=school Unix people, etc.), which I think 
> hurts
> Linux and Free Software in the world at large far more than any
> Microsoft ad campaign could hope to accomplish.
> 
> -- 
> Larry Garfield
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