From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 17:02:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11314 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11306 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@ti.com) Received: from tilde.csc.ti.com ([157.170.1.149]) by jester.ti.com (8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23233; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from spdc.ti.com (ox.spdc.ti.com [192.226.26.51]) by tilde.csc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08379; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from epcot.spdc.ti.com (epcot [192.226.26.53]) by spdc.ti.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29939; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from vagnernt (dhcp22-158.spdc.ti.com [192.226.22.158]) by epcot.spdc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA05203; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:32 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801200101.TAA05203@epcot.spdc.ti.com> X-Sender: vagner@epcot.spdc.ti.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Brian Somers From: George Vagner Subject: Re: strange message Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 06:53 PM 1/19/98 +0000, you wrote: >> i am getting a message when i run ppp -alias -ddial pmdemand >> the message says : >> >> "tcp: cant open socket 3000 no password in ppp.secret." >> >> but it dials and logs in fine? >> >> i do have a password in ppp.secret though? >> >> any ideas? > >Does `hostname' output the same name as the one in ppp.secret ? >Also, if you get the latest ppp, you can specify this password on the >`set server' line (which now must be there). > I will check this and reply. >> heres another i am not getting any logging in /var/log/ppp.log >> >> i made shure that >> >> !ppp >> *.* /var/log/ppp.log >> >> >> was in /etc/syslog.conf as the man page says but it was already there so i >> didnt have to touch it. >> >> any clues? > >Perhaps /var/log/ppp.log doesn't already exist. You need to create a >zero length file if it doesn't. This should be done by newsyslog(8). Aha! the zero lenth file is there but i did notice messages in my mailbox that say: newsyslog: preposterous process number: 0 the subject line is : cron /usr/sbin/newsyslog > >Also, make sure that *only* tabs are used in syslog.conf. Syslogd is >quite particular about this. yes tabs are only used. > >> vagner@ti.com > >-- >Brian , , > >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > > Laszlo Vagner Texas Instruments Email:vagner@NOSPAM.ti.com Pg. 598-5217 Wk. 995-4297