RE: still can't start ppp, even as root
Have you looked at /var/log/messages to see that ppp is actually initialized..??
On 21-May-98 Kenneth.Scharf@coulter.com wrote:
> I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with
> chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to
> connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1.
> Now when logged in as root I issue pon I still get the message this kernel
> does not have PPP support. In compiling the kernel I built the PPP support
> in, IE: it is NOT a module. The kernel source came from 2.0.33-7.deb
> (which added some tcp/ip fixes for teardrop attack and also the FAT32
> patches, I got this from the hamm area on the FTP server, but built it
> under 1.3.1 r6) It was mentioned that pppd has to be setuid root. How to
> do this? Setuid is a system call not a command?
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