Are slip.hosts and slip.login in the right directory or set with the right permissions?
Unlike any other regular file in /etc, they are set with executable permissions: $ find /etc/ -type f \( -perm -u=x -o -perm -o=x -o -perm -g=x \) /etc/sliphome/slip.hosts /etc/sliphome/slip.login $ ls -l /etc/sliphome/ total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 349 Aug 22 23:08 slip.hosts -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 500 Aug 22 23:08 slip.login Even net start is not executable: $ ls -l /etc/netstart -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10946 Aug 22 23:03 /etc/netstart Comments in slip.login imply that the file is from the mid 1990's, though this is from the Aug 30 i386 snapshot. Regards -Lars
