ppp & cdrw access

ppp & cdrw access

[Angelo Sonnesso]

I have installed Slackware 8.0 and I have been trying to get on line using
the following command.
ppp -go
I get a message saying permission denied.
When I log in as root and try the same command, bash says no such command.
I have tried reinstalling pp.tgz, but that doesn't seem to help.
Any suggestions/
Is there any documentation that would help?
I read the ppp document on the slackware CD.

How do you read from the cdrw after logging in as a user, or even root?
The documentation available is really good, but sometimes the little items
become rather elusive.
The information you get from speakup when you boot into Linux is terrific.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Re: ppp & cdrw access

[Shaun Oliver]

first of all try pppsetup
to set everything up.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:

> I have installed Slackware 8.0 and I have been trying to get on line using
> the following command.
> ppp -go
> I get a message saying permission denied.
> When I log in as root and try the same command, bash says no such command.
> I have tried reinstalling pp.tgz, but that doesn't seem to help.
> Any suggestions/
> Is there any documentation that would help?
> I read the ppp document on the slackware CD.
>
> How do you read from the cdrw after logging in as a user, or even root?
> The documentation available is really good, but sometimes the little items
> become rather elusive.
> The information you get from speakup when you boot into Linux is terrific.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>

-- 
Shaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
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Re: ppp & cdrw access

[Angelo Sonnesso]

That was the first thing I did.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@goanna.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: ppp & cdrw access


> first of all try pppsetup
> to set everything up.
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
>
> > I have installed Slackware 8.0 and I have been trying to get on line
using
> > the following command.
> > ppp -go
> > I get a message saying permission denied.
> > When I log in as root and try the same command, bash says no such
command.
> > I have tried reinstalling pp.tgz, but that doesn't seem to help.
> > Any suggestions/
> > Is there any documentation that would help?
> > I read the ppp document on the slackware CD.
> >
> > How do you read from the cdrw after logging in as a user, or even root?
> > The documentation available is really good, but sometimes the little
items
> > become rather elusive.
> > The information you get from speakup when you boot into Linux is
terrific.
> > Thanks for any help you can give.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
>
> --
> Shaun Oliver
>
> Marriage is a three ring circus:
> engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
>                 -- Roger Price
>
> Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> Icq: 76958435
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: ppp & cdrw access

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Your permissions thing is probably being caused by not having permission to
use the serial device that your modem is connected to.  Do the following:

1.  Type "ls -l /dev/ttySx" where x is the port of your modem (0 for comm1,
1 for comm2).

2.  Make sure the permissions are at least rw-rw---- - use chmod as root to
change it if they're not.  they probably will be OK.

3.  Look to see who owns it.   It'll probably be root as the owner and
dialup or something as the group.  The group is what we want, here.

4.  Use your favourite text editor and edit /etc/group .  Find the group
which owned the port and add the user account to the group.  If the group
has no members, put the username after the last colon.  If there is already
one or more users in the group, put a comma directly after the last
existing username and put in the new one.  Note that the syntax here is
important and things may break iif it's not done right.

5.  Save and relog your user account so the changes take effect.

6.  Type "groups" as your user to check that you're in the appropriate
group.

7.  Type "pppgo" and cross your fingers.

The problem with not being able to run pppgo as root is more than likely a
search path issue.  Your user account has some paths in its $PATH that root
does not.

Geoff.