I have some problems with kppp / pppd! I've been happily using kppp (under Xwindows) OK for about a year, except for a crash any time I tried using File Attachment with Kmail. So last week I tried a reinstall of Kmail / kppp / pppd. The everything stopped working :( I've since installed a new bigger hard drive with an all-new install of Red Hat 6.2 on it, the _only_ bits off the old system I copied across was my /home/cr directory, _after_ the install. But I still have the same problems: 1. As Root, I can receive pop mail OK, but when I click on 'Send Queued' in Kmail, the modem transmits but nothing more happens. The message doesn't go anywhere. If kppp _isn't_ running I get an error message, 'Cannot open SMTP connection to host mail.orcon.co.nz'. I get the same message if I deliberately change the host name to an incorrect one. 2. As user 'cr', even though I've given myself superuser privileges, when I click on kppp in Xwindows it opens up a box to ask for the Root password, which I enter, then kppp just goes away. It doesn't start. Logging out straight after leaves the error message: AUDIT: Sat Jul 22 11:09:29 2000: 3395 X: client 15 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key kppp: cannot connect to X server: 0 I can imagine the ":0.0" is something to do with a missing DNS number, alternatively it could be that something is returning a wrong version number, as I read somewhere that some versions of kppp or pppd may do if used with the wrong kernel - but _all_ my current setup (other than my /home/cr directory) is freshly loaded off a RedHat 6.2 CD-ROM. Both kppp and pppd are set suid, doing ls -l in /usr/sbin shows them both as -rwsr-xr-x , owner root, group root. I must be missing something. Can anyone suggest where to look? cR (this message sent on my trusty old Acorn - not via Linux) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
