Re: Help For Newbie

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:33:33PM +0100, Keri wrote:
| To be in root, am I not supposed to be opening it through the apps pull down
| menu in Gnome? And it appears to open and swiftly close itself down but like
| I said, I'm choosing it from the apps menu.

Ahh, here's the problem.  I bet it is opening a console window, then
terminating because you didn't login (through gdm) as root, and the
terminal window closes before you can see the error message.

Instead, open a gnome-terminal.  In it type "su - root".  It will ask
for the password.  Now, inside that terminal, you are root.  Outside
the terminal you are still you.  Then type "pppconfig" and it should
work much better.

-D