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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:26:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.2->2.2.5 = ppp permission denied
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Ron Steele wrote:

> At 11:59 AM 11/24/97 -0800, Doug White wrote:
> >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 am trying to ping to a network address.  Pinging a domain name give a
> resolver error. 


I think you mentioned that you had a ipfw in place.  You need to modify
your rules to allow access to the nameserver and to the address you're
trying to ping. 

> Am I the only person in the world that hates to read html docs?  I much
> prefer to load a good old ASCII file (without backspaces, please) into
> emacs and do regex searchs.  If I still have problems, then I can go to the
> net.  Just call me retro grouch, I guess.

Guess so; have you found http://www.freebsd.org/search.html yet? ;-)

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