On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > > > I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My > > system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole > > unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date > > as of about a week ago. > > > > I just started to have the need to use the ip-up scripting ability and > > found that neither ip-up or ip-down are being executed by ppd. I did a > > 'strings' on the current pppd binary to check what paths it was looking > > for this stuff in and everything looks correct. I had remembered that > > long ago the ppp stuff was in different paths so it might have been > > possible that I was using files left around from 1.3 or something. > > >From /etc/ppp/ip-up > > # This script is run by the pppd after the link is established. > # It uses run-parts to run scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, so to add routes, > # set IP address, run the mailq etc. you should create script(s) there.
My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo command in there). > > Also, I cannot start a ppp connection as any user other than root. It > > fails to execute the chatscript as an unprivileged user yet all the > > permissions seem correct. > > Add yourself (the "unprivileged user") to groups 'dip' and 'dialout'. My user is in those groups already. Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
