on Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 06:19:56AM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Hello, brenda et al, > > Deja vu, but cannot find it so must start again. > > I solved the first part of the error message from wvdial's > invocation of pppd by noting that it did not occure if I was super > user.
System utilities (including things like networking and dialup) often
expect to be run as root _OR_ as a set of users defined as having
privileges to use the facility. I'm not familiar with wvdial
particularly.
> But, of course, the ppp daemon still died. I put in a path in
> wvdial.conf and that problem has gone now.
>
> Have been reading /usr/share/doc/ppp/FAQ.gz - particularly the
> third question that is about 15% of the way through (reading with
> mc). This line was not in syslog.conf so have added them.
>
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit;daemon.info /dev/console
> daemon,local2.debug /etc/ppp/log
>
> in fact the second line and accompanying explanation was not clear
> and I modified the last part to
>
> /var/log/ppp.log
>
> figuring that (a) all the log files were in /var/log and (b) the
> log file should be named not just log. I created a file ppp.log
> with a one line entry for recognition with
>
> cat ppp.log
>
> I sent the HUP signal
>
> kill -HUP 'cat /var/run/syslog.pid'
>
> which with no output I was satisfied had run OK (these things
> _are_ picky with which inverted commas can be used!)
Note the distinction between "'" (a quote) and "`" (a backquote or
"backtick"). The latter resolves output of a command and uses it as the
argument for other commands. Better, substitute the "$( expression )"
form:
$ cat /var/run/syslog.pid
$ ps up $( cat /var/run/syslog.pid )
Incidentally, the latter is a way to check to see if a process has truly
died.
Peace.
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