Re: pppd

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi People, I know not again. Followed the process from NetLink and it worked
> fine for my ISP. Problem is while I can Man pppd I do not seem to have it
> installed. As I have a very fragile connection to Xwindow I don't want to
> add a lot of excess stuff. Does anyone know the location of pppd so I can
> download in a minimal way from BSWare.  Thank you. RAK sr

If you can display a man page on pppd, you probably have it installed.
The program and the man page are both part of the same RPM package.

How are you starting pppd?  Just typing "pppd" from a command line?
As root or a non-root user?  As it ships from Redhat, "pppd" requires
itself to be started from root.  If you try it from a non-root account
it won't find it because it's not in the path, and it won't run even
if you give it the full path name.

Look in  /usr/sbin  for the "pppd" program.   i.e.

   ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
  -rwsr-sr-x  1 root  root   120020 Apr  9 23:33 /usr/sbin/pppd

If you can get it working as root, let me know, and I'll show you
how to change things so it works from a non-root user account.
(one step at a time)

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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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