On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon. > It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem > doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to > connect. When I do plog, it comes up blank. When I do a ps, it seems > that pon has indeed started up a couple of processes. These sit there for > a few minutes and then die. Other than this I have no idea what is going > on. Certainly plog is no help.
Does your friend have a line local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log in his /etc/syslog.conf ? If not, try adding it and running /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .