wmppp.app [WAS-Re: asmodem]
David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 02:12:10 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jonathan Kolb wrote:
> >
> >I've since gotten wmppp from http://windowmaker.kimitsu.com it's a great
> >package, shows you an xload-ish display for your connection. Right now
> >it has a title on it, but that's supposed to go away soon. My advice
> >would be to try that.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> > Jonathan Kolb
>
> Well, I downloaded wmppp. I guess I won't be worrying about asmodem since
> wmppp is MUCH nicer, IMO. The version I downloaded didn't have a title and I
> put it into my Wharf. There seems to be a bug in Wharf, though, dealing with
> pictures larger than 60x60 (or maybe it was 64x64). Wmppp is just a little
> bit larger than that so it gets shifted over a little.
>
> --John Gruenenfelder
>
I have just sent off a suggestion to the wmppp.app folks about using the
getmodemspeed as non-SUID and parsing chat's connect-errors fileinstead .
If anyone would like to avoid having to use "chat -v" and dumping wads of
chat info as well as clear text login password into your /var/log/messages
file, here's the scoop:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# diff.wmppp-1.2
--- getmodemspeed-orig.c Tue Apr 28 18:29:07 1998
+++ getmodemspeed.c Thu Apr 30 00:21:39 1998
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
- fd = popen("tac /var/log/messages | grep CONNECT | head -1", "r");
+ fd = popen("tac /etc/ppp/connect-errors | grep CONNECT | head -1", "r");
while (fgets(temp, 256, fd)) {
printf("%s", temp);
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Makefile-orig Thu Apr 30 00:36:25 1998
+++ Makefile Thu Apr 30 00:38:59 1998
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
cp getmodemspeed /etc/ppp/
chmod 755 /etc/ppp/getmodemspeed
chown root.root /etc/ppp/getmodemspeed
- chmod +s /etc/ppp/getmodemspeed
cp sample.wmifsrc /etc/ppp/.wmifsrc
cp sample.wmppprc /etc/ppp/.wmppprc
chown root:root /etc/ppp/.wm*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's faily easy, and you'll have to add " 'REPORT' 'CONNECT' " to the
script that chat calls (via the -f). I know this works on RH4.2, and
would pressume it works on RH5.0, as well as most "std" linux
installations (disclaimer: I dould be wrong - it's happened).
Feel free to email me privately for further instructions :)
caveat: this pressumes you already have a working ppp method as I don't
want to go down that road with you (:
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