ckermit for Debian ------------------ June 29 2004: Crypto options (kerberos and SSL) have been temporarily disabled to get a up-to-date version into debian in time for Sarge. They will be re-enabled once the issue of whether crypto-enabled ckermit belongs in non-free or non-US/non-free has been decided by the ftpmasters. The site for ckermit, which has lots more documentation, is at: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ On startup, kermit looks for .kermrc in your home directory. If this is not found, it uses /etc/kermit/kermrc. This in turn looks for .mykermrc in your home directory. Kermit scripts can be run with shebang (#!) notation, i.e. by making the script executable and setting the first line to #!/usr/bin/kermit As most users do not need the full config file, a minimal config file is installed by default. If you wish to run kermit with the full config file, run it as "kermrc". /usr/bin/kermrc is a symbolic link to /etc/kermit/kermrc.full, which can be edited to taste. iksd (the Internet Kermit Service Daemon) can be enabled or disabled using: dpkg-reconfigure ckermit iksd uses /etc/kermit/iksd.conf on startup. If you have enabled anonymous use, it uses /etc/kermit/iksd-anon.conf *within* the anonymous chroot, so if you use the default, it will look for /home/ftp/etc/kermit/iksd-anon.conf -- Ian Beckwith , Tue Jun 29 12:31:58 2004