Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added

Re: FW: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: Can't open options file

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread John Hasler
J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you require a GUI install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. I also uncommented debug in /etc/ppp/ttyS4 options. That's my

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Sorry John I some how sent this 1st message toy ou instead of to the list. I only realized it when the post didn't appear. My apologies. Quoting John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas.

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. My Debian system does