🚀 go-pugleaf

Colin Coe (coec@justice.moj.wa.gov.au) wrote:

: PPP does not seem to want to run.  At first it returned the error "Sorry 
: PPP is not availible on this system" even though it was compiled in to 
: the kernal.  Any way that error has been fixed, now when I execute my 
: dial in script, nothing happens, no errors, no nothing.  When I do a 
: 'ps' there is no entry for pppd.

You don't say which kernel version you're running.  As yoou've found, 
ppp2.2.0f fixes your first problem.  I found the second problem as well 
running kernel 2.0.6, but when I regressed to 2.0.3 it worked fine.  Not 
having time to look into it I went back to 2.0.3 for the moment.

: This leads me to my next problem.  "ps -aux" does not work. "ps -ax" 
: works just not the "-aux".  I suspect this has something to do with the 
: error message I get when Linux boots.  Something like "Broken flock() 
: emulation with process 70, lpd".

The ps problem will be because you need to upgrade to procps1.01.  The 
format of a few entries in /proc changed with the 2.0 upgrade.  You'll 
find that 'top' probably doesn't work properly either (it's also in the 
procps package).

The broken flock() message is telling you (in a round about way) to 
upgrade your libc, although I haven't bothered myself yet.  I believe 
it's a pretty harmless message, and in fact many people have commented it 
out of the kernel with (aparently) no illl effect.

Cheers,

Bob.