Re: pppd problems

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> > Finally, the pppd kept demanding a .ppprc file,...
> 
> That's weird.

     I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try
pon, I get the following message:

bob:vc-ty1:bob>pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file
/home/bob/.ppprc: Function not implemented

     As shown below, my permissions are OK, and I have a full spectrum
of options files.

bob:vc-ty1:bob>id
uid=1000(bob) gid=1000(bob) groups=1000(bob),8(mail),20(dialout),30(dip),50(staff)

-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root        10137 May 24  1998 options
-rw-rw-rw-   1 bob      bob           200 Feb 20  1998 options.ttyS0
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root           77 Mar  5 18:40 options.ttyS1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          644 Mar 29 17:50 options.ttyXX
-rw-------   1 root     root         1549 Mar  5 16:29 pap-secrets

     I had used pppconfig earlier, and re-ran it after I got these
errors, but it made no changes.  

     My potato partition is running ppp 2.3.6-1 and bash 2.0.36.

     Since I use my slink partition for day-to-day operations, I
haven't been concerned enough to track it down.  My mirror got ppp
2.3.7-2 yesterday, which I will install soon and see if that fixes the
problem.

Bob
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