Re: pppd + exim question
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) when I try to use pon from a normal account I get a message saying
that I
> have not privileges to run /usr/sbin/pppd. If a modify the attributes of
> /usr/sbin/pppd to let "ohers" to run it I get a message that I have not
> privileges to open /etc/peers/my_ISP_provider. Of couse, as root I
have not
> problems. I have added myself to the dialup group but the two problems
> persists. What is the correct way to fix them? is only a matter of
modify the
> privileges or there is another way?
On my system both file have these permisions:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 218524 Sep 29 14:00 /usr/sbin/pppd*
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 579 Feb 9 14:10
/etc/ppp/peers/provider
So if you put yourself in group dip, you should be able to call out just
fine.
$ adduser YOU dip
> 2) Does anyone have a version of exim.conf which works with and ISP
over a
> dialup connection? I will very grateful if anyone could email it to me.
I think the simplest way is to run eximconfig as root and choose 2) in
the first menu.
Furthermore you should have a file /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim that runs the
que every time your
ppp link goes up.
Hope that helps,
Tim
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