Do any of you use Sify Broadband Connection
i have successfully used Sify about a year back with Debian and Ubuntu.
on Linux RHES 4?If anybody is
using can you tell me how do u use it?
I ve got the connection from local cable operator who has given me one .exe which when installed creates one icon on desktop and when opened that application need to mention username and password to connect to the internet.
there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity the authors never bothered studying SUID, SGID and the concept of running a service as a user with a /bin/false shell. They even created a very badly written init script ;-)
On windows i m able to use internet
You have my utmost sympathies :-)
but i want to use on Linux.The local
cable operator has denied any support on Linux.So anybody in the list can guide me plz for the same.
When i had used Sify, they generally pointed me to go to a local page on their network where you could download their client for Win, GNU/Linux and even Mac OS X.
Samir.A.Sanghvi
[B.E. in EXTC]
i give you even more sympathy ;-) Sorry, i say that to ANYONE who makes it a point to mention they are a B.E ;-)
9820812842
NOT a good idea mentioning your phone number in a public list.
Regards,
- vihan
On Friday 15 December 2006 13:36, Vihan Pandey wrote:
there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity the authors never bothered studying SUID, SGID and the concept of running a service as a user with a /bin/false shell. They even created a very badly written init script ;-)
Yeah, duh. I edited the init script the Gentoo way ;) Actually, maybe the Debian way too, since I used start-stop-daemon
[B.E. in EXTC]
i give you even more sympathy ;-) Sorry, i say that to ANYONE who makes it a point to mention they are a B.E ;-)
I make it a point to mention that I'm SSC from a Marathi medium school.
On 12/15/06, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity the authors never bothered studying SUID, SGID and the concept of running a service as a user with a /bin/false shell. They even created a very badly written init script
You don't have to do any tricks with SUID, SGID. Just run sifyd the first time as normal user and you'll be able to run as that user forever. The issue is with the read and write fifo queues that it creates in /tmp. The permissions on them when they're created the first time are the key. If you run sifyd as root first then those fifo queues can be written or only by root.
I have written a GUI dialer for Sify Broadband which uses the QT toolkit. You could help me by installing the rpm and letting me know how it goes (offlist ofcourse). You may find the RPM here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157014
Regards,
On Friday 15 December 2006 13:36, Vihan Pandey wrote:
there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity
It still exists and you can still use it but I think there is an alternative dialer out there which does a better job.
On windows i m able to use internet
Hmm...
When i had used Sify, they generally pointed me to go to a local page on their network where you could download their client for Win, GNU/Linux and even Mac OS X.
I think the Mac OS X client is in Java so it will work for Linux as well.
Samir.A.Sanghvi
[B.E. in EXTC]
i give you even more sympathy ;-) Sorry, i say that to ANYONE who makes it a point to mention they are a B.E ;-)
Dude...leave it :P
9820812842
NOT a good idea mentioning your phone number in a public list.
Hehehe...
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