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Re: printing and PPP problem on Red Hat 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tfreeman)
Sun Nov 17 12:14:50 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:12:52 -0500 (EST)
From: tfreeman <tfreeman@vnet.net>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, William P Shaw wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 TDWidrick@aol.com wrote:
>
> > My ascii files come out but some of the first line is off the top.
> > How to adjust?
>
> I am having the same problem now that I've moved to RH 4.0. Everything
> worked fine under 3.0.3, but now the first line on each page is halfway
> cut off. Is there something simple I'm missing?
>
> Also, I'm don't seem to be able to run pppd as anything but root. I know
> enough to run pppd suid root (that is, chmod 4755 pppd), but this doesn't
> seem to do it. I'm a little stumped, because I could run pppd as a
> non-root user under 3.0.3. I know (at least I thought I did) what I'm
> doing here, I've read the FAQ's and HOWTO's. Is anyone else having this
> problem?
I had a similar problem. If you are starting pppd from scripts, check each
program called to ensure the the full path name is used. (That was my
problem at least). The problem is addressed somewhere in a FAQ/HOWTO. And
I never managed to connect that discussion with my problem, so some good
people here help out. (Thanks again people!)
>
>
>-- Bill.
Hope that helps.
Tom Freeman
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