-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Did chmod u+s, didn't help. I can ping an external no. (I usually use 202.54.9.1) but trying to google in mozilla says, can't find www.google.com. :( Now what? My knowledge has run out, as have my limited understanding of the man pages.
Soumyadip Modak RCC Institute of Information Technology Kolkata, India > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Manas Kumar Laha > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Kppp can't fire up pppd > > > Soumyadip Modak wrote: > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Yeah I'm gonna use wvdial. Coz I just tried that, and it > > connects. Only problem. Now I've to add the default route, which > > has not been set. So mozilla, etc. can't see the net. Can > > someone tell me the command for adding default route plz. man > > defroute didn't work > > > > Soumyadip Modak > > Wvdial, after establishing a connection with the remote host, > finally runs pppd. It is pppd which configures the ppp0 > network interface and sets up the routing table > appropriately. To do this, pppd must be setuid root. On my > machine, ls -l /usr/bin/pppd show this: > > 204 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 203968 Feb 28 2002 /usr/sbin/pppd > > The 's' in the permissions field shows that pppd is setuid > owner (in this case root). If your pppd shows 'rwx' then you > have to do: > > chmod u+x /usr/sbin/pppd > > as root. > > By the way, pppd (and perhaps also wvdial) writes logging > messages to /var/log/messages. Read the manual. > > - Manas Laha > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPk/H1gAMO//EcNNiEQKb5QCgnFwsRPECmmWdPrezjE0aHPhplWIAoPDq mO3YSCPkNiXjrzFUqdoAPSTz =CH8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
