Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:04:19 -0500 From: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Amnesiac and no user ppp Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970331000419.00685940@rma.edu>
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To all: For a while I was having a problem with sendmail not finding my hostname. I seemed to have fixed this problem (for some reason I had disabled the "lo0" device in /etc/sysconfig) with Doug White's help (his message is on my Freebsd machine). Now sendmail is working, but my machine boots (Amnesiac). I can set the hostname logged in as root (all my passwords still work); then I invoke "newaliases" to rebulid the database (I've forgotten exactly why I do this--it was explained somewhere). When I reboot, the machine is (Amnesiac) again. In addition, user ppp doesn't work correctly anymore. It dials up and connects, switches to packet mode, and capitalizes (ppp >> PPP). But nothing is being routed-the connection is idle. I can successfully ping my own machine (ping 127.0.0.1) but not my ISP. I haven't specified a timeout, so the connection just stays up but idle until I close it. In addition, any program that needs a network connection (netscape, xemacs) will hang if I try to start it (in X windows). I've experimented with all kinds of configuration in hosts, ppp.conf, ppp.linkup, and sysconfig; no change. I've rebuilt the kernel twice (tun and lo0 are definitely there) and remade the tun0 device several times. User ppp dials up, connects, and idles. The machine boots (Amnesiac) every time. I didn't find anything useful in the archives or handbook. Any ideas? These problems follow a recent installation (from scratch) of 2.2.1., although everything but sendmail was working before. Thanks as always-- Michael
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