I can't find any variant of account name that produced any
successful/different result, so I am posting the question to msn, which
provided the account name styling in the first place. Their policy is to
reply within 24 hours
Lawson, yes, I had failed to chmod 755 /etc/ppp/ppp-off. However when I
cleaned that up, I got:
/etc/ppp/ppp-off: kill: cat /var/run/ppp0.pid: no such pid
However there is just such a file in that directory
David
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Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: ppp working [was:fetchmail/minicom]
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
> ...
> this is sloppy. The pop3 server is telling you this is not a valid
> user. Most pop servers will wait for a password even if the user is not
> valid, then reject the login. Your ppp account is MSN/davidturestsy,
> but I bet your pop3 account is just davidturetsky. pop3 couldn't care
> less what kind of line or underlying protocol is used.
> ...
> > Does not like my login?
>
> Sure looks that way to me. if plain davidturetsky (without
> MSN/) doesn't do it, maybe you should look back to the info from MSN a
> few letters back. once it doesn't like the user, the rest is fallout
> from that bomb.
> ...
> > Regarding the kill command below, I was logged in as root so I don't
> > understand why the command was rejected
> >
> > David
>
> Does the command itself have execute permission? Root can read, write
> or delete a file without permission, but it can not execute a file that
> has no execute permission.
>
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