From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 10 00:12:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19017 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.local.net (tcs1-08.netwalk.net [206.175.52.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18935 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12262; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 03:08:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 03:08:43 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: alissa bader cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serious ppp help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > now I have a major ppp question. Basically...ok. I went to the pendantic > ppp primer. I read through it. I did not understand it. Then I went to > the ppp section of the freebsd handbook. I read through that. I > understood it, so I followed all of the directions to the letter. I mean, > I edited rc.conf files, I put in my ip address and my isp's gateway...ok, > I thought I got it. Then I rebooted. Then I su'ed. Then I typed "ppp" > at the # prompt. Are you after Kernal Land ppp or UserLand ppp? Either way, if you only "su'ed" to root you may not have inherited roots environment. Try this: /usr/sbin/ppp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message