Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-04 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:35:03PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Yeah I knew I left ping on too long..I wasn't sure if it exited on its > own. I'm wondering if the exit status isn't the result of my finally > doing ctrl-c ? Nono, what you do with ping won't affect the exit status of /etc/ppp/ip-up. > Anyw

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread J Y
Yeah I knew I left ping on too long..I wasn't sure if it exited on its own. I'm wondering if the exit status isn't the result of my finally doing ctrl-c ? Anyway I do appreciate the help-this has been one pain to resolve. I will check permissions on /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and recently there have been no

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:48:20AM -0800, J Y wrote: > The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet > applications to "see" the connection. > > deblnx:/home/john# plog > Oct 3 13:48:48 deblnx pppd[1333]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid > 1378), status = 0x1 > Oct

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet > applications to "see" the connection. Try if you can ping ip addresses. Try to open http://192.25.206.10 (that is www.debian.org). If it works, that only your DNS is not configured prop

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread J Y
The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet applications to "see" the connection. deblnx:/home/john# plog Oct 3 13:48:48 deblnx pppd[1333]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 1378), status = 0x1 Oct 3 13:49:17 deblnx pppd[1333]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x6186

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-02 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:34:36PM -0800, J Y wrote: > I spent some time reading pppd man8 and after experimenting with > /etc/ppp/options I found that commenting out the "connect" line gave > me > an appearance of kppp connecting. By-the-way I have checked permissions > and they seem to be ok.

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: > > I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added > > myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number > > beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in > /etc/ppp/options> I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was > the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure > I was in the ppp group-I am. My Debian syste

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Sorry John I some how sent this 1st message toy ou instead of to the list. I only realized it when the post didn't appear. My apologies. Quoting John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J Y writes: > > Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a > > shot. I'm out of ideas

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options> I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. I also uncommented debug in /etc/ppp/ttyS4 options. That's my mode

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread John Hasler
J Y writes: > Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a > shot. I'm out of ideas. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you require a GUI install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: "Can't open options file /etc/ppp/p

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm no expert at all, but for what it's worth, my file >> /etc/ppp/peers/orcon is as follows: >> >> -rw-r-1 root dip 580 Oct 1 10:28 orcon >> >> (I didn't set any of that specially, it was just wh

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Thanks and where is group dip located? I did a whereis and locate for dip but got hundrends of files. Really thanks again. Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: > > Hi, I did the following: > > > > Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon > > and

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: > Hi, I did the following: > > Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon > and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case > comment out the sample chat script > # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:11, cr wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case comment out the sample chat script # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" ) Then, to use the 'call' option with K

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The obvious 'fix' of adding myself to group 'root' is, I think, not a good > idea ;) Na, not a good idea ;-) > However I seem to have fixed it - I'll include this in case it helps anyone: > > /etc/ppp/options says: > > # Require the peer to authenticate

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread cr
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:58, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to > > ppp? > > Add the user to the dip group. It is not necessary to add the user to > dialout as pppd opens the device while running as root. Thanks! I added myse

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I don't know minicom at all. I've never used it. I have been thinking that I'm an idiot lately since I can't resolve this problem. I don't think it has anything to do with my isp or I wouldn't be able to connect with SuSE 8.1 & (yuck) Win ME, and tonight I installed slackware 9.0 just 15 minutes

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: > and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the > terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. I should read your post to the end ;-) Please provide the complete log information from pppd with debug turned

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: > When I type pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp > and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the > terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. Maybe the defaultroute is not setup p

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi Can anyone give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? I keep > getting failure to authenticate messages. the following is from the kppp > details box: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > authenticate

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up+

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I forgot to add, sorry, that I tried all of this i.e. pon, wvdial , kppp logged in as root with identical results. Thanks. Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. > And come back to it. > Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below jus

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. And come back to it. Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just got me a 'ppp daemon died unexpectedly' message and the details box said that noauth is only available to root. removing noauth from the kppp setup (I edited /et

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread John Hasler
cr writes: > Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to > ppp? Add the user to the dip group. It is not necessary to add the user to dialout as pppd opens the device while running as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 04:11:49AM +1200, cr wrote: > Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while > /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, > even when I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I > don't know how the two inter-r

Re: : Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:59:25PM -0800, J Y wrote: > After adding 'noauth' to /etc/ppp/options kppp still fails with this > message: > > Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: The remote system is required to > authenticate itself > Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: but I couldn't find any suit

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread cr
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't > > find any suitable secret (passwor

: Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread J Y
ing pon without the dryrun gets the modem to dial (well all these programs do that) but nothing else happens there isn't even any screen output with 'pon highstream.net" I do appreciate the responses. I will keep working on it. Thanks JY Subject: Re: pppd daemon dies To: J Y <[EMAI

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the > 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I copied > the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work either. > Do you still

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate > itself > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret > (password) for it to use to do so. > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[11