> I am slowly working through getting my ppp connection to work.
> I have successfully gotten the connection to my ISP to work and stay
> connected.
> My problem now is that the ppp-off doesn't seem to work. When I do ppp-off I
> get
> the following message "var/run/ppp0.pid permission denied", and the modem
> does not hang up.
> I'm looking for in FAQs but haven't found any previous discussion
> concerning this particular problem. Any suggestions or advise would be
> appreciated.
Configure ppp0 thru the netcfg utility to be user controllable, then do, as
root, 'chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd' and you should be able to start and stop the
server as a normal user using:
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ifcfg-ppp0
and
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown ifcfg-ppp0
Dave
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