I made ip*.local files and connected to internet. I can connect to internet. But I feel ip*.local files are not activated. They are made executable and suid. Still I didn't get ppplog file in /var/log/directory and my hosts file is not modified. my /etc/ppp/ contents are as follows. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 27 20:36 ./ drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 3072 Sep 27 20:32 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 103 Sep 23 21:04 DEADJOE -rw------- 1 root daemon 78 Apr 10 09:03 chap-secrets -rwsrwsr-- 1 root daemon 3284 Jul 5 06:14 ip-down* -rwsrwsr-x 1 root daemon 259 Sep 26 18:51 ip-down.local* -rwsrwsr-- 1 root daemon 3162 Jul 5 06:14 ip-up* -rwsrwsr-x 1 root daemon 382 Sep 26 18:48 ip-up.local* -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 1 Sep 27 20:36 options -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 26 19:28 options.org -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89 Sep 26 19:32 options.rl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Sep 26 19:33 options.ttyS1.rl -rw------- 1 root root 77 Sep 27 20:36 pap-secrets -rw------- 1 root root 77 Sep 26 19:39 pap-secrets.org -rw------- 1 root daemon 120 Sep 26 19:36 pap-secrets.rl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 70 Sep 26 19:25 ppplogin.rl* how to get them activated. -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ The Linux India mailing list does not accept postings in HTML format.