"L. A. Lawless" wrote:
>
> OS wrote:
> >
> > I have reported this bug against kppp direct to KDE but so far nothing has
> > been done, in fact I don't think the bug report has even surfaced on their
> > radar yet !
> >
> > Owen
> >
>
> Is this only a kppp problem? I cannot use a direct ppp connection to my
> ISP as it uses CHAP authentication, which does not seem to be supported
> by Mandrake anymore. But if resolv.conf continuously reverts to read and
> write permissions for root only, surely this would affect any form of
> user dialup? I am getting a little tired of having to do chmod every
> time I want to dial out. I assume that the same problem exists with
> other window managers as long as kppp is used? I haven't had much
> opportunity to find out yet as I spent the day getting rpmdrake working
> properly.
>
> --
> Anna
>
> > On Tuesday 28 Aug 2001 9:50 am, you wrote:
> > > I installed Mdk Beta 8.1 yesterday. Apart from reported bugs, and one
> > > other installation problem that I will be reporting from my cooker
> > > installation, I have noticed some very strange behaviour.
> > > After disconnecting my modem, when redialling I get a 'site not found'
> > > message. This is because the permissions of resolv.conf have been
> > > changed to read and write for root only. I correct it and can contact
> > > sites again. Then, next time I dial out, the same thing happens. So I
> > > have to chmod again, as dns has no permission to read or write to the
> > > file. This happens every time I reconnect ppp0, regardless of whether I
> > > do or do not log out or shut down in the intervening time.
After reading web pages for about an hour over a pppoe adsl connection, I got
the 'server not found' message after clicking on a bookmark in Netscape. The
'file modified' time was within the previous minute on resolv.conf, which was
now only root r-w. This would not be kppp, would it? On beta2.
