Re: [Sheflug] https

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:


>The issue is if kppp _doesn't_ work.  There is no graceful failure
>mode; the automatic response seems to be "post to ShefLUG."  :-(

Neither is there a graceful failure mode if you invoke pppd from the
command-line. It seems you expect _more_ of kppp. Maybe you expect too
much from GUI apps ;-) What kppp does is to report what was logged to
/var/log/messages. It's hard to see what else it could do.

It's true though that if kppp fails for some reason then you are going to have
to increase syslog debugging and grovel through /var/log/mumble just as you
would if you were using the command line but since the vast majority of newbies
were already connected at this point, "so what" has to be the response. Without
kppp they'd still be chewing their pencil and looking nervously at the ppp HOWTO
or more likely have given up and tried beos instead.

atb

Martin
-- 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph



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