About one-third of the time when I try to connect with kppp (randomly), I get the error box 1-2 times where it says "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 19. I then click "details," and it gives this message.
Cannot open any of the following logfiles: /var/log/syslog.ppp /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages Then the next attempt to connect proceeds normally, with no problems. I'm wondering why this occurs only sometimes. man pppd says error 19 is "We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer." That's understandable, but doesn't seem to be related to logfiles not being opened. It's not really a big problem, but I'd just as soon understand why this is happening, and not have to make 1-2 extra attempts to connect if there's a setting I have wrong, and fixing it would eliminate this minor annoyance. Hmmmm. Come to think of it, this also occurs with my Mandrake box (but not as often), so it must be isp and/or generic linux related, and not distro or hardware dependent. Thanks, Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
