Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:28:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > > connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/mo

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:05:24PM -0700, The Gecko wrote: > On 21-May-98 Shaleh wrote: > > Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of > > the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP > > is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it s

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:28:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1. > Now when log

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
On 21-May-98 Shaleh wrote: > Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of > the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP > is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it should be done. > setuid means that the bit is set so that when a

RE: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
Have you looked at /var/log/messages to see that ppp is actually initialized..?? On 21-May-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbo

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Shaleh
Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it should be done. setuid means that the bit is set so that when a program is started it sets its uid (