Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 30 December 2002 20.54, Keith wrote:
> Hi, Did not choose a security setting, went with default, and DID chose
> "enable firewall" towards the end of installation.
> ls -1/usr/sbin/pppd gets me  either "no such directory", or invalid

that should be ls -l not ls -1. the letter L in its smaller variety. And 
there should be a space between ls and -l, and between -l and /usr/sbin/pppd

No other spaces need apply.

> command, depending how I type it.
> Kppp (internet dialer in 7.3) does not have a place to put in nameserver or
> "mwt.net" address, like windoz, and even windoz seems to be automatic
> (dynamin?).  Another time it connected for a fraction of a second, then
> kppp crashed and gave this message:Unable to access    /var/log/syslog.ppp,
> /var/log/syslog, and also
> /var/log/messages.

It really sounds like pppd isn't suid root.

try the ls command again. You should get something like

-rwsr-sr--    1 root     dialout    206856 Sep 20 06:13 /usr/sbin/pppd

Note the two s-es (how do you pluralize 's' in writing?). If you don't have 
any s there then that's your problem. If you do, then I'm completely wrong 
and will shut up for the rest of the year (about three more hours :).

//Anders