PPP server on RH7.2?

[Tomasz Ciolek]

 have you apples latest RH errara? ppp was included in those ...

 regards
 TMC

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:16PM +1100, Bob Edwards wrote:
> 
> I have recently updated the machine of one of our staff here from RH7.1
> to RH7.2. He runs a dial-in modem server using an external modem,
> mgetty+sendfax and pppd.
> 
> We have used exactly the same configuration files (/etc/mgetty+sendfax
> and /etc/ppp) as before, but the dial in service isn't working.
> 
> I am not a modem user (never have been - never want to be), so I have
> little experience of where to look. It seems that mgetty is not starting
> the ppp daemon, but terminating the connection prematurely. This line
> appears in /var/log/messages:
> 
> init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
> 
> The chat stuff appears to come from the mgetty daemon, and looks like
> it might be configured in /etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.conf, but this
> file is identical to before.
> 
> Does anyone have RH7.2 set up as a dial-in modem server? Can you help
> out? I have searched on google, found many references to people having
> similar problems, but no-one has yet offered a clear solution.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bob Edwards.

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