>-----Original Message----- >From: Rex Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:36 AM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] RPPPPOE overwrites my pap & chap secrets >files. > > > >>Hello all, >> >>I recently changed ISP's to SBC Yahoo DSL and reinstalled >>Gentoo from the >>1.4_rc4 CD successfully. My problem arises when I reboot the >>machine and my >>/etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files get >>overwritten. Any >>ideas on how to prevent this from happening? I'm getting >>tired of either >>copying backup copies of these files over the blank ones the >>scripts replace >>my setup with or running adsl-setup each time I reboot. Also >>I'm not clear >>on the finer points of how to add adsl-start to the Gentoo >>init scripts so my >>connection will come up automagically at boot time. Any ideas? > >I'm not sure why it would be overwriting your secrets file. Sorry. > >As to how to get it to start up: Add the line "adsl-start" to the >file local.start. This works quite well for me. > > >-rex oops. I also meant to say that you sould add "adsl-stop" to local.stop.
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