Hi,
Coupla things. Kppp wants to use its own lock file, (to lock the serial
port) so, you will run into a problem with it if you have a file
/etc/ppp/options, with a "lock" statement. If so, remove the line or the
file if you are using kppp exclusively. But you'll need it if you run
ppp connections from the command line. (Your options file may be
elsewhere, depending on your distro).
On my system, pppd (/usr/sbin/pppd, I believe, on SuSE), was not suid,
and was not executable by everyone. Therefore, kppp worked fine if I was
root (which I now don't do...) and would NOT work after connecting if I
was logged in as another user.
I had to make pppd executable by everyone before it would run for kppp:
# chmod 711 /usr/sbin/pppd
Your system may need it to run suid (process runs with super user
equivalent rights when anyone starts it), in which case use
# chmod 4711 /usr/sbin/pppd
It may also not work unless it's readable as well... as in
# 755 or 4755
Experiment to see what works. There are apparently security issues about
certain programs running suid, and I believe pppd is one of them. If
anyone on the list can shed some more light on this, thanks.
Also, you can see what your ppp connection is doing (or failing to do)
if you open another xterm and (as root) do
tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/warn
(or wherever your messages filez happen to be)
HTH
-Harold
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Simon Gendreau wrote:
> I have installed KDE yesterday and works ok.
> But I have some problems with Kppp.
> I have succeeded in building my login script but the modem keeps hanging
> up after the password acceptance from the server.
> Kppp debug tells me that some parameters related to SUID is not properly
> setup...... I've no clue what SUID is !
>
> Also, when I launch Kppp, it says that pppd is not properly installed.
> Would it solve the problem if I reinstall pppd ?
> How do I uninstall pppd ?
> I have tried using rpm- U but without success....
>
> By the way, is there any (X) GUI to manage rpms (redhat package)
> ........ ?
> I find it very curious that it is not part of the typical Redhat 5.2
> install process ..............
>
> Please help me !
> Thanks !
>
> PS: KDE is absolutely great ! Looks much better than M$Win !
> Com'on Dreamweaver ............. linux - it ! !
>
> --
> Simon Gendreau
> ".... No gates, no windows, ... it's open!"
>
>
>
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