Re: help again'

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

Um, after following this thread, I'm wondering what the advantages of
using kppp are?

Of course, I use Debian myself, so I have my own `pppconfig' crutch
(which so far has always gotten it right as long as I've given it
correct information). And the `pon' wrapper is convenient. But the
config program writes to the standard places, and the pon wrapper is
part of the pppd distribution, so may be considered standard.

It seems that KDE likes proliferating wrappers so that you can never
get away from the letter K. Haven't we learned anything from
Microsoft, like what not to do?

>>>>> Martin == Martin P Holland <m.holland [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

Martin> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug On Mon, 26 Jul
Martin> 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 .

This sounds to me like either

(a) some helper application that sets up the network protocols needs
to be setuid isn't (not very likely, but you might check on pppd)
(b) there is a list of authorized ppp users somewhere that you need to
add your personal user to

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

Make sure that any usernames in the kppprc file are correct; it's easy
to confuse your local username with the remote (this seems highly
unlikely because I really doubt your user on the ISP is root ;-)

Martin> This will be in .tar.bz2 format. You unzip it with the kde
Martin> archiver

KDE archiver? ` tar --extract --use-compress-program=bzip2 -file=...'
is a bit to type, but....

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

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

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

I don't know if this has been rationalized yet, but historically the
syslog.conf format required the internal whitespace to be TABs, not
SPACEs.

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

Or change them later ;-)

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