Re: [newbie] Still slogging my way through ppp

1999-06-27 Thread Alan Schussman
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Stefan Dozier wrote: > At 12:20 AM 6/27/99 -0600, you wrote: > > >Second, which will be just as significant, is that when I run my script as > >anything but root, I get the error that permission is denied on ttyS1, my > >modem. There must be some way around that, right? -- b

Re: [newbie] Still slogging my way through ppp

1999-06-27 Thread Stefan Dozier
At 12:20 AM 6/27/99 -0600, you wrote: >Second, which will be just as significant, is that when I run my script as >anything but root, I get the error that permission is denied on ttyS1, my >modem. There must be some way around that, right? -- but modifying the >permissions on ttyS1 doesn't do it.

[newbie] Still slogging my way through ppp

1999-06-26 Thread Alan Schussman
Hi all- I'm starting to get the hang of all this, but could use some more advice. The core of my problem is that I can't get a dialup ppp connection without going to root and jumping through some hoops, which makes linux decidedly impractical for people like my girlfriend or houseguests to use it