Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 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 ?

Yes he does have this line.  Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Mark.

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