Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote: as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i i type pon connection namenothing happens here is what is present in the plog server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15 server pppd [255] : Connect Script failed

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread faisal gillani
Well can you tell me how to use wvdial ? i mean how to make a new connection in wvdial .. or edit the connection .. it seems that wvdial cannot find my modem as it said when i install wvdial .. but my modem is there on com port 2 as pppconfig did pick it up in its default connection file

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread faisal gillani
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote: as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i i type pon nothing happens here is what is present in the plog server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15 server pppd [255] : Connect Script

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread faisal gillani
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote: as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i i type pon nothing happens here is what is present in the plog server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15 server pppd [255] : Connect Script

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:50 pm, faisal gillani wrote: Well can you tell me how to use wvdial ? i mean how to make a new connection in wvdial .. or edit the connection .. it seems that wvdial cannot find my modem as it said when i install wvdial .. but my modem is there on com port 2 as

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Please re-post your question. I missed it because you did not mention ppp in the subject. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:41:49AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: Hello, My ppp connection quit working this afternoon, and before finding out that there was a problem on my ISP's end, I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. Well now my ISP

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread John Hasler
I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. You changed the value in the IP Numbers screen from the default 'noipdefault' to '192.168.1.10:' . Run pppconfig and change it back. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted /var/log/ppp.log SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: Do touch ppp.log to create the file, then use chown and chmod so that the file has the

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted /var/log/ppp.log SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: Do touch ppp.log to create the file, then use chown and chmod so that the file has

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Ivanov writes: I've tried doing that, but still nothing gets written into the file, when pon is called. I can write into it by piping the output to the file just fine, and then plog just shows me the right output (whatever I piped into the file), but pon refuses to send any data into

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change this? You have to run plog as

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread ktb
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Anthony Wong
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:35:09AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: | |adduser user group will add user to group and give him all of the rights and privileges (sp?) |he is thereto entitled. | |as for removing a user from a group, I don't remember off the top of my head and couldn't |find the command

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread john
ktb writes: H, my ppp.log file shows the same: ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log And as a regular user gives me this: ~$ plog Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 magic=0x3f1d] Your

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using cat and found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a security problem? I'm confused. Thanks, Kent I found

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:00:24AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. Under what conditins does the password show up? I just grep'd my /var/log/ppp.log for my

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Jim Foltz wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread John Hasler
John writes: Turn off debug and kdebug after you get things working proper. I believe it is kdebug that puts the userid and password in the log if I remember correctly. Plain old 'debug' does it. It's a known bug in pppd. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: plog permissions

1998-10-22 Thread john
XRD Lab writes: After some time, whenever I tried to plog, I got 'Permission denied' message. I tracked it the changed group ownership of /var/log/ppp.log from dip to adm. I reset it. It changed again. Should ppp.log belong to adm or dip? If it is being changed periodically, where can I

Re: plog not working

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding plog. I just recently installed Debian, and have no complaints,but I am kind of puzzled. Until about a week ago, the plog command worked beautifully--it showed me everything I needed to know about my ppp

Re: plog not working

1998-06-20 Thread Robert Kerr
Thanks Bob, that was just the ticket. On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding plog. I just recently installed Debian, and have no complaints,but I am kind of puzzled. Until about a week ago, the plog

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread joost
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: I have just upgraded to hamm. pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect this is because /etc/syslog.conf has changed, but I'm not sure. I had a look, but I don't know how to change it to fix the problem.

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: I have just upgraded to hamm. pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect this is because /etc/syslog.conf has changed, but I'm not sure. I had a look, but I

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this without rebooting? Cheers, Mark. Mark, You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this list, I found out that you

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: No it doesn't.  I've added it in now though.  Can I activate this without rebooting? Cheers, Mark. Oops, That last message should have been the syslogd instead of the inetd. Sorry but the same Idea. Mike

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:06:22AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: [...] pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect this is because /etc/syslog.conf [...] Strange.

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread joost
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange. Does /etc/syslog.conf contain a line: local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log on your machine? No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this without rebooting?

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: [ snip ] : : You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this : list, I found out that you can do a ps ax and find out which process : inetd is. Then do a kill -1 (PS#). That's the numeral one. As usual, there's an even

Re: plog

1998-01-20 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:49:33PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. Any ideas? For some

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-18 Thread Mark Phillips
On 16 Jun 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Hi, MP I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like MP this file is no longer written to??? MP Any ideas? What's in /etc/syslog.conf? If this file has been

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Hi, MP I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like MP this file is no longer written to??? MP Any ideas? What's in /etc/syslog.conf? If this file has been replaced by the upgrade process, I think the old file is copied as

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded to 1.3 and tried using ppp. I've managed to connect okay (enabling me to send this email) by plog no longer works. When I type it, it comes up blank. I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like this

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS I believe that the newer ppp writes its logs to DS /var/log/daemon.log Go change the script instead, then? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the