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Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working



On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop.  I tried running pon.
> It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much.  The modem
> doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to
> connect.  When I do plog, it comes up blank.  When I do a ps, it seems
> that pon has indeed started up a couple of processes.  These sit there for
> a few minutes and then die.  Other than this I have no idea what is going
> on.  Certainly plog is no help.

Does your friend have a line

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

in his /etc/syslog.conf ?

If not, try adding it and running /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload


Joost


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