Re: help again'

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Robert wrote:

> I can dial out and connect as root via Kppp. but what I can't do as a
>user is connect. Kppp. will dial out, but it times out and says no
>network protocols running I've got all the permissions set right but it
>still won't go .

First of all check that your configuration as root and as a user is the same.
su
cp /root/.kde/share/config/kppprc /home/user_name/.kde/share/config/kppprc
chown user_name.user_name /home/user_name/.kde/share/config/kppprc

If still no joy then try getting the latest version of kppp. Version 1.6.2
definitely had some bugs. You can download it from
http://devel-home.kde.org/kppp/index.html

This will be in .tar.bz2 format. You unzip it with the kde archiver to /usr/src
and then cd to /usr/src/kppp and run ./configure make make install

If still no joy then get back to us with the full error messages you get. The
way my syslog was set up out of the box didn't give very detailed logs so you
might want to try something like this to improve things:

Add to /etc/syslog.conf the following two lines:

local2.* /var/log/ppp-messages
daemon.* /var/log/ppp-messages

and restart syslog with

killall -1 syslogd

Now add debug to pppd arguments in kppp (or put this on a line by itself in
/etc/ppp/options).

Next time you try to connect you will get a detailed log in the file
/var/log/ppp-messages. If you post it to sheflug blank out any passwords first!

atb

Martin

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