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Re: Initiating pppd as a user

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Shepard)
Sun Nov 1 23:17:53 1998

Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 08:15:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <363CD4A7.D191A370@iname.com>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:

> You should not run that.            Run /sbin/ifup ppp0          as intended.
> You seem to be in the wrong place.

Jan,

  Must have been. Downloaded more than 50 packages to upgrade the system
then ran /sbin/ifup ppp0 as a user and it worked like a charm! Amazing.

  My fiancee used it, too, from her account and it worked just as well for
her.

  Thank you for the education!

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
2404 SW 22nd Street
Troutdale, OR 97060-1247  U.S.A.
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rshepard@appl-ecosys.com



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