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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Amnesiac and no user ppp
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Michael Alwan wrote:

> 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.

Somehow you broke the 'hostname' directive in /etc/sysconfig.  Make sure
it's still there and is defined, and is mode 644.

>  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.

Do "add 0 0 HISADDR" just after connecting to add the route.

> In addition, any program that needs a network connection (netscape, xemacs)
> will hang if I try to start it (in X windows).

Probably on a nameserver lookup on your name which doesn't exist.

Hope this helps some more.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major