On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:23:44 -0700, Dave Watts wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I am slowly working through getting my ppp connection to work.
>I have successfully gotten the connection to my ISP to work and stay connected.
>My problem now is that the ppp-off doesn't seem to work. When I do ppp-off I get
>the following message "var/run/ppp0.pid permission denied", and the modem does not
>hang up.
> I'm looking for in FAQs but haven't found any previous discussion concerning this
>particular problem. Any suggestions or advise would be appreciated.
>
It may be that the file "ppp-off" or "ppp0.pid" does not have the
correct permissions. I had this problem when I copied ppp-off & did
not set the "execute" permission bit. I suspect that one of the
critical files has the improper permission.
J R Casey Bralla
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