Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Please re-post your question. I missed it because you did not mention ppp in the subject. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:50 pm, faisal gillani wrote: > Well can you tell me how to use wvdial ? i mean how to make a new > connection in wvdial .. or edit the connection .. it seems that wvdial > cannot find my modem as it said when i install wvdial .. but my modem is > there on com port 2 a

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-25 Thread faisal gillani
    ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote:> as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15> server pppd [255] : Connect

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-25 Thread faisal gillani
  ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote:> as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15> server pppd [255] : Connect

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-25 Thread faisal gillani
Well can you tell me how to use wvdial ? i mean how to make a new connection in wvdial .. or edit the connection  .. it seems that wvdial cannot find my modem as it said when i install wvdial .. but my modem is there on com port 2 as pppconfig did pick it up in its default connection file "provid

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-25 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote: > as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i > > i type pon & nothing happens > > here is what is present in the plog > > server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15 > server pppd [255] : Connect Script failed > server pp

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread John Hasler
> I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember > exaxtly what I did. You changed the value in the "IP Numbers" screen from the default 'noipdefault' to '192.168.1.10:' . Run pppconfig and change it back. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public doma

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:41:49AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > My ppp connection quit working this afternoon, and before finding out > that there was a problem on my ISP's end, I reran pppconfig, and edited > a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. > > Well now my

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Ivanov writes: > I've tried doing that, but still nothing gets written into the file, when > pon is called. I can write into it by piping the output to the file just > fine, and then plog just shows me the right output (whatever I piped into > the file), but pon refuses to send any data into

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted > > /var/log/ppp.log > > SInce then none of the plog messages appear. > > I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: > > Do "touch ppp.log" to create the file, then use chown and chmod so > that t

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Phillips
> I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted > /var/log/ppp.log > SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: Do "touch ppp.log" to create the file, then use chown and chmod so that the file has the

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread John Hasler
John writes: > Turn off debug and kdebug after you get things working proper. I > believe it is kdebug that puts the userid and password in the log if I > remember correctly. Plain old 'debug' does it. It's a known bug in pppd. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Jim Foltz wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > > -rw-r-

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:00:24AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: > > You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world > > readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. > > Under what conditins does the password show up? I just grep'd my > /var/log/ppp.log for

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using > "cat" and > found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a > security > problem? I'm confused. > Thanks, > Ken

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread john
ktb writes: > H, my ppp.log file shows the same: > ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log > -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log > And as a regular user gives me this: > ~$ plog > Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 > magic=0x3f1d] Y

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Anthony Wong
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:35:09AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: | |"adduser user group" will add user to group and give him all of the rights and privileges (sp?) |he is thereto entitled. | |as for removing a user from a group, I don't remember off the top of my head and couldn't |find the command

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > > -rw-r- 1 root

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread ktb
Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log > > > > What can I

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > When I type plog I get this: > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > the attributes for ppp.log are > -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log > > What can I do to change this? You have to run p

Re: plog permissions

1998-10-22 Thread john
XRD Lab writes: > After some time, whenever I tried to plog, I got 'Permission denied' > message. I tracked it the changed group ownership of /var/log/ppp.log > from dip to adm. I reset it. It changed again. Should ppp.log belong to > adm or dip? If it is being changed periodically, where can I dis

Re: plog not working

1998-06-20 Thread Robert Kerr
Thanks Bob, that was just the ticket. On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have a question regarding plog. I just recently installed Debian, and > > have no complaints,but I am kind of puzzled. Until about a week ago, the > >

Re: plog not working

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > I have a question regarding plog. I just recently installed Debian, and > have no complaints,but I am kind of puzzled. Until about a week ago, the > plog command worked beautifully--it showed me everything I needed to know > about my ppp connec

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: [ snip ] : : You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this : list, I found out that you can do a "ps ax" and find out which process : inetd is. Then do a "kill -1 (PS#)". That's the numeral one. As usual, there's an even e

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread joost
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Strange. Does /etc/syslog.conf contain a line: > > > > local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log > > > > on your machine? > > No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this without

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:06:22AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > > [...] > > > pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect > > > this is because > > > /etc/syslog.conf [.

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: > > No it doesn't.  I've added it in now though.  Can I activate this without > rebooting? > > Cheers, > > Mark. Oops, That last message should have been the syslogd instead of the inetd. Sorry but the same Idea. Mike _

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this without >rebooting? > >Cheers, > >Mark. > Mark, You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this list, I found out

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I have just upgraded to hamm. > > > > pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect > > this is because > > /etc/syslog.conf > > has changed, but I'm not sure. I had

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread joost
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have just upgraded to hamm. > > pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect > this is because > /etc/syslog.conf > has changed, but I'm not sure. I had a look, but I don't know how to > change it to fix the pr

Re: plog

1998-01-20 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:49:33PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: > > My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' > nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files > are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. > > Any ideas? For some

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-18 Thread Mark Phillips
On 16 Jun 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > "MP" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MP> Hi, > > MP> I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like > MP> this file is no longer written to??? > > MP> Any ideas? > > What's in /etc/syslog.conf? > > If th

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> I believe that the newer ppp writes its logs to DS> /var/log/daemon.log Go change the script instead, then? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just upgraded to 1.3 and tried using ppp. I've managed to connect > okay (enabling me to send this email) by plog no longer works. When > I type it, it comes up blank. I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it > is empty. It seems like

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "MP" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> Hi, MP> I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like MP> this file is no longer written to??? MP> Any ideas? What's in /etc/syslog.conf? If this file has been replaced by the upgrade process, I think the old file