The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael' user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of group pid and dialout.
When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint: You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or /etc/ppp.options_out ls -l on ppp.chatscript: -rw------- 1 root root 235 Nov 27 11:54 /etc/ppp.chatscript ls -l on ppp.options_out: -rw------- 1 root root 108 Nov 27 12:01 /etc/ppp.options_out Clearly these files have the wrong permissions or owners. Which is it? PS. I had installed Netscape Communicator vis dpkg (took a while to get the tar file named correctly). However, I didn't like the setup because it wouldn't run as root. So I deinstalled via dpkg then used the netscape install script. Any problems with that? PPS. I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well. It took a while to figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself. I thought Java was included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .