Top Document: Mgetty+Sendfax with Vgetty Extensions (FAQ) Previous Document: AutoPPP appears in the "who" listing Next Document: Part 3: Compatibility Issues See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge From: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> You can't get a ppp connection going. So, what should you check before calling for help in the list. Run mgetty with a debug level high enough to see what login it will try. It might not be wrong to just use level 9 to see everything happening. Scenario 1: mgetty recognizes AutoPPP: 03/11 12:06:31 yS1 match: user='/AutoPPP/', key='/AutoPPP/'*** hit! 03/11 12:06:31 yS1 login: utmp entry: ppp 03/11 12:06:31 yS1 looking for utmp entry... (my PID: 5313) 03/11 12:06:31 yS1 utmp + wtmp entry made 03/11 12:06:31 yS1 calling login: cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', argv[]='pppd... 03/11 12:06:31 ##### data dev=ttyS1, pid=5313, caller=none, conn='LAPM', name='' At this point, mgetty executes pppd and has nothing to do with connection failures, failing authorization, the police banging at your door or anything else. Check pppd's logs for any trouble. If you use "who" and the only thing you can see is "a_ppp", go check your pppd sources. It's pppd's job to forge a utmp entry It looks like some unix clients should explicitely send the string "/AutoPPP/" as there seems to be a problem in connecting. Mgetty doesn't seem to get ppp-frames and waits for something it can decide what to do. As you are most probably using a script for the connection, there should be no problem to send that string. User Contributions:Top Document: Mgetty+Sendfax with Vgetty Extensions (FAQ) Previous Document: AutoPPP appears in the "who" listing Next Document: Part 3: Compatibility Issues Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Lichtenwalder@ACM.org
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