Hi Keith,
Thank you so much for your most informative reply to my query.
The command
which kppp gave /usr/bin/kppp,
so I listed it to make sure: It gave
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred root /usr/bin/kppp --> consolehelper
rm -i /usr/bin/kppp worked, when I remembered to type Y instead of
Enter.
I checked that we had /usr/sbin/kppp and then changed the permissions as you
advised. Then I made the symbolic linkage, and checked using
which kppp again.
I listed it to make sure and it gave
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /usr/bin/kppp --> /usr/sbin/kppp
(At this point I wondered whether I should need to change ownership to fred,
but I needn't have have bothered, as it worked fine just as it was.)
As a point of interest, does the leading letter "ell" in the permissions
string indicate a linked file?
Many thanks for your help. ............................. Fred.
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:42, Keith McGavin wrote:
>
> 'which kppp' (should show kppp in /bin)
> 'ls -la /bin/kppp' (shows kppp is softlink to 'consolehelper')
> 'rm /bin/kppp'
> 'ls -la /sbin/kppp'
> 'chmod u+s /sbin/kppp'
> 'ln -s /sbin/kppp /bin/kppp'
>
