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Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon



Christoph Simon wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:28:17 -0500
> A R <arodriguez@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > What command exactly is needed?
> >
> > > Try to turn on debugging (debug/kdebug in the ppp option file) and
> > > read the output. Most probably it'll give you a hint.
>
> Write "debug" on one line and "kdebug 1" on another in
> "/etc/ppp/options". Most probably you don't even have to write it, just
> uncomment it there.  Try to make sure that this is the option file you
> actually use. If you don't get any logging, it wasn't :-) I think
> there was a command to display that, but as I was using ppp before pon
> and poff existed, I can't tell. You should also find it in
> syslog. I do remember having watched it in a different terminal using
> "tail -f /var/log/syslog".

Well, I got it the first way, through removal of "#" in options.
Now, where is all this going to be stored-written to?
By the way, nothing could be found from Erik's advice:
tail -f /var/log/ppp.log
since I didn't have any ppp.log file there.



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