I am running RH6.0 from chip. I connected using kppp to internet. During ppp connection I have observer following errors. /etc/ppp/ip-up: /var/run/ppp-.dev: Permission denied /etc/ppp/ip-up.local: /var/log/ppplog: Permission denied WWWOFFLE Already Online WWWOFFLE Now Fetching. WWWOFFLE No more to fetch. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post: ifcfg-: No such file or directory usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes <net-device> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases <net-device> wwwoffle[1025] Warning: Unknown host 'localhost' for server [Name Lookup Non-Authoritive Answer Host not found]. wwwoffle[1025] Fatal: Cannot open connection to wwwoffle server localhost port 8081. /etc/ppp/ip-down.local: /var/log/ppplog: Permission denied /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post: ifcfg-: No such file or directory ---- 1)I have following permissions for the dirs drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Oct 4 01:24 var/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Oct 5 05:53 log/ ------------------------------------------------- 2)my ip-up file is as follows. #!/bin/bash # This file should not be modified -- make local changes to # /etc/ppp/ip-up.local instead LOGDEVICE=$6 REALDEVICE=$1 export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin echo "$REALDEVICE" > /var/run/ppp-$LOGDEVICE.dev [ -x /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ] && /etc/ppp/ip-up.local $* /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post ifcfg-${LOGDEVICE} exit 0 ---------------------------------------- 3) my ip-up.local file is as follows. #!/bin/bash echo `date` CONNECT $4 >> /var/log/ppplog /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -online /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -fetch Still ppplog was found to be written by ip-up.local. Further I would like to know the significance of various error msgs given above. Sorry for such a long mail. -- 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.