Step one: give us exect error messages, not "or some such thing". You make
it hard for people who *want* to help you when you don't give us accurate
information, or information we feel we can trust ("i think that i at least
have ...").
Step two: tell us how you run pppd as root. There are many ways to run pppd,
using various helper programs (e.g., chat) and scripts. One of them may have
permissions problems. You mention ppp-on; what does it say (except for your
password, of course) and how are its permissions set?
Step three: look at your logs, and see why pppd (or chat or whatever) says
it won't run for a non-root user. This should be in /var/log/messages if you
run a strandard syslogd setup.
Step four: if minicom really can't create a lockfile, you might look at why
this is. See if, for example, the directory in which minicom wants to create
the lockfile isn't writable by the user trying to run minicom. (This is only
an example of something you might try, not really troubleshooting advice -
real advice requires a better description than you've given us.)
PS - Are you also having a problem with your keyboard?
At 02:20 AM 7/12/99 -0400, qozmo x xx wrote:
>hello, i'm using redhat6.0 on an i586 and i just figured out how
>to dial in to my ISP while logged in as root. problem is i can't
>figure how to get this done as any other user. my permissions on
>pppd are currently -rwsr-xr-x which i think should give users other
>than root the ability to run the program and do whatever it needs
>to do. one problem is that i haven't been able to run minicom as
>any user other than root since i've upgraded to rh6.0. minicom
>sez that it cannot create a lockfile or some such thing. i'm not
>sure exactly what the permissions on my modem device currently are,
>but i think that i at least have read and execute access for all
>users. i can't remember exactly what error i am given when i try
>to run my ppp-on script, but i can get it if someone thinks it would
>be helpful in solving my problem.
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