Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (169 mails)

[jrodman@xxxxxxxx (Josh Rodman)]

* Jerry Lynn Kreps (jlkreps@xxxxxxxxx) [990428 20:57]:
> landie wrote:
> > 
> > first when I dial via kppp to ISP I get
> > daemon died unexpectedly, I tried their solution on commenting out the
> > lock line in /etc/PPP/options but still no luck.

Are you still getting this specific error message after commenting this
line?  Are you certain it is so commented?  Are you getting different
symptoms now?

> > any ideas what else it could be when I dial via minicom I have no problem.

To diagnose this, more information is needed.  Open up an xterm.  'su' to
root.  run the command 'tail -f /var/log/messages'.  Try to use kppp.  You
should get all kinds of useful output in the xterm window.  Post this
here.

> as root do a "chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd

Please do _NOT_ do this.  pppd is arleady suid root.  Any user in the
'dialout' group should be able to run it.  Any user who can run kppp can
also run it.  The chmod commad above simply will make the command 'set
groupid' and 'sticky'.  This confers no advatages and could concievably
make trouble for you in the future.

> Edit /etc/permissions and change the permission on pppd to 7555 so YaST
> doesn't change it every time YaST runs.

Again, do not do this.  This will give any and all users on your system
access to a setuid program.  If you don't care about security at all, you
could give everyone the root password and not worry about permissions, but
otherwise I don't recommend this.

> > ****************************************************
> > I tried running executables files such as 3dchess and other and when I
> > double click on them nothing happens??
> > 
> > *******************************************************
> 
> a possibility: you may not be running your xwindow at the correct
> resolution (it may need an 8 bit mapping and you could be running 16 or
> 24, or visa-versa).

This is certainly one possibility.  There may be others.  Try running the
programs from the command line, you are much more likely to see any error
messages.

Best of luck,

-josh

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