Re: RH5 ip-up and ip-down trouble

1998-05-25 Thread osama bin zia
Make group named ppp and add all the users having access to dialout should be in this group.Give group permissions to ppp and execute dialout by different users. -osama Sean Willson wrote:  The problem with this is that you have to be root to execute these commands.  I am trying to execute them

Re: RH5 ip-up and ip-down trouble

1998-05-25 Thread Sean Willson
The problem with this is that you have to be root to execute these commands.  I am trying to execute them without being root.  Any ideas on how I cna securly do this? Is doing a chmod u+s on them wrong? Any ideas anyone? Sean osama bin zia wrote:  It's very simple.Go to the network-scripts promp

Re: RH5 ip-up and ip-down trouble

1998-05-25 Thread osama bin zia
It's very simple.Go to the network-scripts prompt and then you will have two options. 1)    ./ifup-ppp ifcfg-ppp0 & 2)    ifup ifcfg-ppp0 & This works for me very fine. -osama Sean Willson wrote:  Hello all, I am having trouble getting the ipconfig scripts to work properly.  I am not sure if I

RH5 ip-up and ip-down trouble

1998-05-24 Thread Sean Willson
Hello all, I am having trouble getting the ipconfig scripts to work properly.  I am not sure if I am not using the right command line arguments or what but I keep getting the following error: ./ip-up: /var/run/ppp-.dev: Permission denied /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post: ifcfg-: No such