Glutton for punishment , huh?
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: Lyndon Lininger Sr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Pppd dies unexpectedly
> Your problem in redhat 6.0 is easy to fix. After you boot up. In the kde
> environment use the file manager and go to kppp. I believe it is in
> /bin/kppp. Right click on it and choose properties. When that window pops
> up goto permissions and set the suid bit. Close it down and reboot. It
will
> work fine from then on. Hope this helps. I will never go back to windows.
>
> Lyndon Lininger Sr.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bela Lantos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 6:15 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Pppd dies unexpectedly
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Since I installed Mandrake 5.3 I have problem with pppd dying
unexpectedly
> > because of timeout. Even though I increased timeout to 2 min, it still
> dies.
> > However, if I dial again, the second time it connects OK. This problem
> doesn't
> > exist if I dial in as ROOT, only as user. It wasn't so in Mandrake 5.2.
I
> am so
> > disappointed with it, that I am going to dump Linux from my desktop and
> stick
> > with Win95. At least it doesn't double my phone bill.
> >
> > 5.3 would also hang if I tried to shutdown with CTRL_ALT_DELETE at the
> killing
> > of the gpm daemon -> corrupted file system. My mouse is a serial mouse.
My
> > friend's is a PS/2, he doesn't have this problem. I uninstalled the
> > "initscript", and installed the one from Mandrake 5.2. It works fine.
> >
> > I also installed Red Hat 6 on another partition. It is missing kpackage
> and
> > glint, which is a very ugly error from Red Hat. Pppd works fine as ROOT,
> but
> > when I try to bring up kppp the following is the message:
> >
> > "pppd is not properly installed!
> > The pppd binary must be installed with the SUID bit set.
> > Contact your system administrator."
> >
> > I click OK to the message, then try to dial with kppp, and the following
> is the
> > message:
> >
> > "Sorry, can't create modem lock file."
> >
> > Do these Linux companies know what they are doing? Since Red Hat
received
> so
> > much investment, and Mandrake became successful their products are not
> worth
> > buying unless you are a programming guru who can fix the ugly errors.
> >
> > I am very upset about their carelessness. Linux will not win the hearts
of
> > people this way. I am now not recommending it to anyone until it will be
> > praised on the newsgroups.
> >
> > Bela
>
