Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2->2.2.5 = ppp permission denied Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125102511.17289E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971124174756.0072e660@shellhost.dc.infi.net>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Ron Steele wrote: > At 11:59 AM 11/24/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: > >On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Ron Steele wrote: > > > >> I just upgraded 2.2.2->2.2.5. PPP had been working fine. Now I get the > >> unfortunate "permission denied" error on any operations of the ppp link (it > >> still comes up fine). > > > >What exactly are you trying to do? Permission denied can come from the > >program itself, from inside the program, and from network accesses. > > > > I am trying to ping to a network address. Pinging a domain name give a > resolver error. I think you mentioned that you had a ipfw in place. You need to modify your rules to allow access to the nameserver and to the address you're trying to ping. > Am I the only person in the world that hates to read html docs? I much > prefer to load a good old ASCII file (without backspaces, please) into > emacs and do regex searchs. If I still have problems, then I can go to the > net. Just call me retro grouch, I guess. Guess so; have you found http://www.freebsd.org/search.html yet? ;-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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