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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>
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Subject: Re: pppd NOT AVAILABLE
To: jspringr@tribeca.ios.com (Jeffrey Springer)
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:44:29 -0500 (CDT)
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> I am having problems with dynamic Slip  -  sometimes it works, othertimes
> it doesn't  -  so I tried ppp.  I looked up pppd in the man pages, followed
> the directions (connected to my host through cu, suspended cu, typed "pppd")
> only to see a message that "pppd is not available on your system." 
> 
> If it's in the man pages (and there is a "pppd"  file) why is it not 
> available? How or where can I obtain it? Can I do anything on my system 
> to get it to work?

You need to rebuild a kernel with some ppp interfaces defined.  Add
the following line to your kernel configuration file:

pseudo-device	ppp	1


Why don't we change pppd with the following patch to give a
better error message?  This question seems to come up a lot 
here and in the newsgroups, and the current error message isn't
really very clear as to what the problem is.

--- orig/main.c	Sun Jul  9 10:35:22 1995
+++ ./main.c	Sun Jul  9 10:38:08 1995
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
     gid = getgid();
 
     if (!ppp_available()) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "Sorry - PPP is not available on this system\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "There are no PPP interfaces configured on this system\n");
 	exit(1);
     }
 

-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"