I have installed wwwoffle. It was working ok with proxyserver as my host lvghomepc:8080. I was unable to get ip-up.local inspite of all permissions. Hence I made ipup file in my home dir as given below. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/killall -9 named /usr/sbin/named /etc/named.conf.online grep -v pppconnection /etc/hosts >/tmp/hosts.tmp echo "$4 pppconnection">>/tmp/hosts.tmp mv /tmp/hosts.tmp /etc/hosts ntpdate 128.175.1.3 & >/dev/null& wall "Internet connection established ($4)" echo `date` CONNECT $4 >> /var/log/ppplog /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -online /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -fetch first i saw the msg that permission denied for named. I saw permissions to execute is ther for all. second hosts.tmp file was created but empty. third inspite of permissions as below drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Jul 5 11:02 var/ drwsr-sr-x 7 root root 1024 Oct 2 07:30 log/ I got permission denied and ppplog file was not created. fourth, i get the following msg when i open navigator. warning:an HTTP proxy host was specified(lvghomepc). but that host is unknown. This means externaal hosts will be unreachable. perhaps there is a problem with a name server. consult your system admin. netscape is unable to locate the server lvghomepc:8080 please check the server name and try again. how to solve above problems. -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.