Re: PPP Bugs?

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone know if diald works works with Redhat 5.1 (BS-Ware),  or even
> if the control-panel cirrectly sets up a ppp interface.  I created the ppp
> interface with control-panel and it dials and fails with an "invalid login"
> eventhough I know it is the correct user/passwd (I tried in manually).  I
> can see the invalid login from the ISP in /var/log/messages.  I am completely
> baffled.  Just wondering if anyone knew of any bugs, or if it something I
> have done/failed to do?

I've never setup PPP with the control panel, so I'm not sure about that one.
I've also never tried diald with Redhat, but I use PPP without any problems.

> P.S. For some reason an upgrade using BS-Ware thrashed (I mean bad) my machine
> to the point where any attempt to remove an RPM (It said I had portmap 
> installed three time) resulted in a segmenation fault.  I got a lot
> of "Failure in script execution" at the end of package installs during the
> upgrade.  There was disk space, etc... Didn't manage to narrow down the cause.
> Ended up doing a install and wiping out the system paritions (but everthing
> juicy was in /home & /usr/local anyway.

I don't remember how old of a copy of BSware you have, but there have
been three updates to the RPM package since Redhat 5.1 was released.
According to Redhat's errata page, there are even bugs in RPM ver 2.5.3
(the latest version).

Redhat has some commands to run (creates some links) and a file to
edit that will fix the problem.  For details see:

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh51-errata-general.html#rpm

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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