From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 11:59:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29266 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29260 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12893; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:59:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ron Steele cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2->2.2.5 = ppp permission denied In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971124140401.0070669c@shellhost.dc.infi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 have adjusted the rc.conf and rc.firewall files to be like they were > pre-update, and tried the ipfw "any" command in the FAQ to no avail. > Judging from the date on the kernel, I am still running the 2.2.2 kernel. > I was suprised this didn't get updated. Known bug in the 2.2.5 updater. Just rebuild your kernel (assuming you installed the kernel sourc too) or copy /kernel.GENERIC to /kernel. > (wondering how you can go from 2 cds to 4 and not have room for the FAQ and > handbook) Well, considering that just about anyone has Net access and they're always Lynx, it solves a lot of the documentation aging problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major