Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 22:47:01 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Misiak <rob@madonna.ic.net> To: Timothy.Butkiewicz@wmich.edu Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <199511170347.WAA03824@madonna.ic.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.951116035237.669407737A-100000@wmich.edu> from "-=WireHead=-" at Nov 16, 95 04:01:04 am
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-=WireHead=- ("A few questions") wrote:
>
> 1) Using user PPP how do i pull out the dynamically assigned IP address
> to save it in a file.
> I connect on a fairly regular basis, about once a day. And would like to
> yank my assigned IP address each time and save it to a file.
After the connection is made, you can get the IP address from "ifconfig ppp0".
Maybe pipe that to sed or awk. When I had a PPP connection like yours, I
would get the IP address this way, nslookup it, and set the hostname this way
in /etc/ppp/ip-up.
> 2) While trying to compile some bsd(i?) based software i ran into some
> problems with crypt. It is giving me some undefined errors relating to
> "_crypt" Does freebsd handle a different methodology. I have DES in
> action on this system.
Try adding -lcrypt.
> 3) and last. Is there a way to set up my machine to only deliver mail to
> this machine. It is a solo system, only way out is through a PPP
> connection and i would like to turn off internet mail processing so that
> the users on this system can only send mail within and not get it routed
> through the PPP link.
Then just send mail to the username.. don't include the full address.
Rob
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