[ubuntu-in] Sify Client

[Sanjay Bhangar]

Sify hell!
I am on Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit, but I can tell you what I did to get it
to work - although, after everything, including struggling with their
customer support to allow my Mac ID, the client still logs me out
after about every 15 minutes and I have to relogin.

> The error that i have got is "sifyconnect: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I got the same error and the steps I took to get it to work:
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libssl.so libssl.so.4
sudo ln -s libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.4

The sify engineer had no idea how to fix it (and this was one of the
smart engineers :( ), but the silly symlink hack seems to work. I AM
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGE THIS MAY DO :P. My machine seems
to be okay though.
It is a bit bizzarre that the login client requires you to run it as
sudo, and I really don't trust Sify enough to run a binary from them
as sudo, but I am forced to do it anyway. If they are giving you a
weblogin option that works, I would recommend you use that.

There were some alternative free software sify login clients, but I am
fairly certain they stopped working after a software "upgrade" on
Sify's part.

I have never managed to get them to give me weblogin access, and
usually succumb to using my dad's windows machine to login. When I
spoke to the Sify engineer, he did say something to the effect of -
"haan, aaj kal bahut log use kar rahe hai yeh" (referring to ubuntu),
so it seems there's finally some motivation on their part to get the
login client to actually work.

If you really need to use the login client, the steps above should
work. Let me know if not. Also, please let me know if you face a
similar issue of being logged out periodically (every 15-20 minutes or
so).

Best of luck,
Sanjay