From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 18:05:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA03914 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03909 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7/8.7/PanixU1.3) id VAA03963; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 21:05:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 21:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: Barry Masterson To: "freebsd.questions" Subject: ppp from shell, & starting X Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I hope this is a simple question. When I'm in the shell (csh text display), and run iijppp from a freshly booted system, I get the following message (below is a sample from past log entries): Dec 17 08:59:50 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf054e500) was (0xf04dee00) Dec 18 11:22:24 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf051fe00) was (0xf04dee00) Dec 28 21:12:12 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf04ebc80) was (0xf04dee00) Dec 29 17:06:01 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf053f680) was (0xf04dee00) At this point I simply close & quit PPP, and restart PPP. Then all is well. ncftp, lynx, pine, gopher, irc, rlogin, telnet, archie, all work. In fact, I can close & quit, & restart ppp again & again. Its not until I reboot the system and run ppp that the 'rtinit' message appears again. Any processes I try to run while in this 'first-run' ppp mode Won't work. This is not really a problem by itself (simply Close & Quit & restart ppp) But, when I finish with ppp (csh text shell), and try to 'startx', I get the following message: TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 61 waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 61 .. TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 61 ..TRANS(SocketCreateListener): failed to bind listener TRANS(SocketINETCreateListener): TRANS(SocketCreateListener) () failed TRANS(MakeAllCOTSServerListeners) failed to create listener for tcp Fatal server error: Failed to establish all listening sockets TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 61 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Xwindows won't run After I've run ppp (from csh text shell). To run X, I have to reboot, Then startx works without any problems. Again, this is not really a problem, just annoying, having to reboot everytime I want to startx after a ppp session. ( 'kill -1 1' & 'kill -HUP 1' doesn't solve this problem ) So my first question is, Does the rtinit message have anything to do with my Not being able to startx after running ppp from the text shell? And of course, how can I solve this problem? My second question has to do with running ppp from Xwindows. Currently I have the ppp files in /usr/sbin, so, to run ppp, I run it as root. Not a problem from the shell, I've got all of those vc's. However, I want to run X, ppp & netscape as a normal user. (ppp & netscape work fine if I startx as root). Question 2: Can I simply place the ppp files: /usr/sbin -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 86016 Nov 16 04:57 ppp -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 61440 Nov 16 04:57 pppd -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin kmem 12288 Nov 16 04:57 pppstats in my ~/home/bin directory, and expect it to run without any complaints. Thank you Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com >--->--->--->--->---> FreeBSD 2.1.0 486DX2/66 - 1gig IDE drive - 8meg ram <---<---<---<---<---<