/var/log/ppp.log stays empty

I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 -- Debian 2.1, and reconfigured ppp. It works, but now /var/log/ppp.log does not at all reflect what is happening during the ppp exchange. Where's the new log file for ppp? Thanks, Charlie

2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 -- 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36? 2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects me with the error msg: System bootup in progress -- please wait I incrementally killed all daemons running

help installing lincurses4 v. 4.2-3

I'm upgrading Debian 1.3.1 (bo) to Debian 2.1 (slink). I followed autoup.sh instructions first to upgrade libc5 - libc6. But now, dselect tells me libc6 = 2.0.7u-6 is required, but that my system only has libc6 2.0.7t-1. What's wrong? How can I fix it? Charlie

Debian meltdown - Linux no longer boots after libncurses4.2-3 upgrade fails.

I'm upgrading Debian 1.3.1 - Debian 2.1. The autoup.sh script went ok. But when I ran dselect, the upgrade for libncurses4.2-3 failed (as described in an earlier posting). Now, Linux does not even boot. I think dselect must have installed some packages, but then halted at libncurses, and