Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 1997,, John wrote:
John> > I editted /etc/ppp.chatscript to properly log into the
John> > dial-in server. Since /etc/ppp.options_out made reference to
John> > /dev/modem, I went to /dev and make a symlink from "modem" to
John> > "ttyS0". (I know I could have edited the
John>
John> Bad idea. Replace the entry in the options file with ttyS0, do
John> NOT make a modem symlink. This could, in fact, be responsible
John> for all the rest of your problems.
Funny, I never had any problems running it from link. (same goes for
mouse, cdrom, tape and so on...). Besides uucp locking collusion,
there nothing wrong with that.
borik
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Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il
Network Administrator borik@cs.huji.ac.il
Hebrew University borik@debian.org
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