installing "pptpd" went like a charm--but i can't get the config script to run:
# apt-get install pptpd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ppp The following NEW packages will be installed: ppp pptpd 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 236kB/289kB of archives. After unpacking 600kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.digex.net stable/main ppp 2.3.11-1.4 [236kB] Fetched 236kB in 3s (75.4kB/s) Configuring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package ppp. (Reading database ... 34906 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ppp (from .../ppp_2.3.11-1.4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pptpd. Unpacking pptpd (from .../pptpd_1.0.0-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up ppp (2.3.11-1.4) ... Setting up pptpd (1.0.0-4) ... Starting PPTP Daemon: pptpd. presumably all known dependencies are now met, but-- # perl /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl Can't exec "/usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl": Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. open2: exec of /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl failed at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 86 Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 478. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #21 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to configure your Debian NETWORK SETTINGS? Look at the file /etc/network/interfaces (try "man interfaces" for more info). Then "ifup -a" to reload your settings, and "ifconfig" to display them. (Also check out "apt-get install ipmasq"!) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...