Getting email together with dman Newbie #61
Hi,
Hello, brenda et al,
Deja vu, but cannot find it so must start again.
I solved the first part of the error message from wvdial's
invocation of pppd by noting that it did not occure if I was super
user. But, of course, the ppp daemon still died. I put in a path
in wvdial.conf and that problem has gone now.
Have been reading /usr/share/doc/ppp/FAQ.gz - particularly the
third question that is about 15% of the way through (reading with
mc). This line was not in syslog.conf so have added them.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit;daemon.info /dev/console
daemon,local2.debug /etc/ppp/log
in fact the second line and accompanying explanation was not clear
and I modified the last part to
/var/log/ppp.log
figuring that (a) all the log files were in /var/log and (b) the
log file should be named not just log. I created a file ppp.log
with a one line entry for recognition with
cat ppp.log
I sent the HUP signal
kill -HUP 'cat /var/run/syslog.pid'
which with no output I was satisfied had run OK (these things
_are_ picky with which inverted commas can be used!)
I read man syslog.conf and then in the syslog.conf file I removed
'daemon' from the line in the section # Some `catch-all' log files
that says
cron,daemon.none;\
However, this does not get me more information either on screen or
in a ppp.log file. I suspect this is because wvdial runs ppp
itself and thus I cannot add on the debug option were I running it
at the prompt.
Any ideas? Without sending the log files I note that woffled
appears to be listed heavily in them and I am not using this.
regards
Ian
Ian Balchin
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