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When you have rested a little bit, you can test the first clients, e.g. CAB (you need a special OVL to connect with CAB to the internet) or aMail. With the help of GlueSTiK, which you can download from the page of Frank Naumann (address see above), it is possible to use STiK/STiNG clients with MiNT-Net. There is also a Draconis to MiNT-Net gateway available on Frank's Homepage, so that you can use Adamas & co together with MiNT-Net. And for the brave of you, you can use real MiNT clients like lynx, pine, Tin, telnet (without GEM) or duftp, aFTP (with GEM) and many more.
When MiNT/MiNT-Net is used in the way it is installed now, all outputs will go to the screen, to send the outputs to a window you can use TOSWIN2 (for lower AES versions than 4.1 use TOSWIN 1.4) and the bash will run in a window, too. If you don't want to install TOSWIN2 you can suppress outputs, when setting a comment in the file /etc/syslog.conf to the following line:

              *err;auth.notice;user.none

             

Than you have peace, but you can't see anything if something is going wrong. But you can have a look at the file /var/log/messages where all outputs are logged.
You may have a look at the directories /etc/ppp and /etc/ppp/Examples, there you will find some scripts for starting and ending the pppd in a more elegant way. This scripts(e.g. ppp-up), you start from the bash like this:

                bash-2.03# /etc/ppp/ppp-up

             

On my Homepage you will find various links for MiNT, when you're searching for something, you should have a look at it. You also will find there, the dialer MiCo-Dial, with this tool it is very easy to establish internet connections.
So, I hope everything worked fine with this instruction, when you still have problems, still read it with patience from the beginning, if you can't bring it to work, you can email me. But, please, no questions like: "It just don't work, what should I do?", a little bit more specific, would be helpful, did I only write "MiNT-Net is working fine on my computer."?;-)
See Disclaimer for more details on asking questions!
If you want to upgrade your little MiNT system to a real one, you can download the most useful things and descriptions from the Sparemint site.
So, I wish you furthermore success in trying the wonderful world of MiNT!
Have Fun!

Marc-Antón

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Some tips for the bash, the following comands should be known, so that you can work just a little bit with the bash.

                   cd      - Change Directory
                   cd ..   - changes to the next higher directory
                   cd /    - changes to root directory
                   cd ~    - changes to home directory
                   ls      - lists all files in a directory
                   ls -l   - same as above but more file infos

                   cp a b/ - copies fila a to directory b

                   mv a b  - move/rename from a to b

                   rm      - delete (Attention!)
                             Be careful with option -r this means deleting
                             recursive, all files and(!) directories in an
                             a directory will be deleted, without warning!!
                             If you enter something like this:

                             bash-2.04# cd /
                             bash-2.04# rm -r *

                             you have after a short while deleted EVERYTHING
                             on your harddisk!!! So, again, be very careful
                             with this option!


                   rmdir   - delete an empty directory
            

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The /etc/passwd is the so called "User Database", here you can find all users of the system with their passwords. The structure of a line is as follows, the first entry is the user name (login), e.g. root. The second entry conatins the crypted password for the user. The third entry is a identification number, then follows the ID of the group from the /etc/group. Then you have the so called GECOS field, which normally contains the real name of the user. The following field shows the directory where you will be after a login and last you can give a program, that should be started when the user has logged in.
Look at the first line of the /etc/passwd that is delivered with Mfl. This means, that the user root has no passwd, has the ID 0 and belongs to group 0 (wheel-see /etc/group). His real name is Rainer Juhser and when he logs in as root he will be in the directory /root. After the login there will be started the bash.

             root::0:0:Rainer Juhser:/root:/bin/bash
             nobody:*:65534:65534:Nobody:/:
             daemon:*:2:2:daemon:/sbin
             bin:*:3:3:bin:/bin:
             uucp:*:4:8:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:
             news:*:6:6:news:/var/spool/news:
             mail:*:7:7:mail:/var/spool/mail:
             ftp:*:8:50:FTP User:/home/ftp:
             adm:*:9:12:adm:/var/adm:
             operator:*:10:0:operator:/root
             gopher:*:12:30:gopher:/usr/lib/gopher-data:
             sync:*:13:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
             shutdown:*:14:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
             halt:*:15:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
             games:*:20:100:games:/usr/games:
            

With the comand resp. program passwd, you can change the password for the actual user, but only when logged in as root.

Mfl

The /etc/group is a list of entries which are partitioned by ':'. The first entry is the name of the group, the second entry is for a password but not used. The third is a uniform identification number and the fourth entry contains the members of this group.

             group:(password):ID:members


            

Now follows the /etc/group which is delivered with Mfl:

                wheel:*:0:root
                nogroup:*:65534:
                daemon:*:1:root,bin,daemon
                kmem:*:2:
                bin:*:3:root,bin,daemon
                tty:*:4:
                lp:*:5:daemon,lp
                news:*:6:news
                mail:*:7:mail
                uucp:*:8:uucp
                sys:*:9:sys,root,adm
                staff:*:10:root
                man:*:11
                adm:*:12:root,adm,daemon
                disk:*:13:root
                mem:*:14:
                games:*:20:
                gopher:*:30:
                dip:*:40:
                ftp:*:50:
                users:*:100:
               

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