Re: FW: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure
On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote:
> I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added
> myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number
> beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to
> pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message:
> "Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission
> denied" appears. I did a chown 777 on the whole string of files but
> still the same error message. Yes I am discouraged. Thanks for the help
> and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas.
>
what are the permissions of /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net? Issue ls -l against
the file and post the output.
Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya
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