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Re: ppp activation fails from control-panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter Harris)
Mon Oct 21 18:34:16 1996
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610201748.NAA24743@redhat.com> from "redhat-digest-request@redhat.com" at Oct 20, 96 01:48:23 pm
From: harrisw@harrel.com (Walter Harris)
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bilker@bigfoot.com wrote:
> I tried to run my chat/ppp scripts, and pppd failed stating that the
> kernel had no support for PPP. I built a new kernel, building in ppp as
> a permanent kernel feature rather than a loadable module. (As long as
> I was building a kernel, I also included Sound Blaster support, which was
> missing from the distribution kernel.)
>
> The new kernel did not change the symptoms --- pppd still stated that there
> was no kernel support for PPP.
>
> I re-booted the 3.0.3 kernel and ran my chat/ppp scripts, and it worked!
> (I had to recover the 3.0.3 version of pppd from my backup tape and use that,
> but basically, it worked.)
>
> I then rebooted the kernel I'd build (Linux 2.0.18), tried my chat/ppp
> scripts again, and this time they worked.
I had a similar problem when I upgraded using the RPMs to kernel
2.0.0. The new RPMs installed pppd without the SUID bit. For some
reason, this caused a message that the kernel did not have ppp
support, when it really did. Changing the pppd permissions fixed it,
which is probably why your tape-restored pppd worked -- it still had
the old permissions.
Try (as root):
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
Happy Linuxing!
-- Walter
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