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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Internet connection and PPPD Date: 9 Jul 1996 06:52:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4rsvjr$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4re01k$r1d@polo.iquest.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E hjohnson@tacsys.com (Howard Johnson) wrote: > Jul 2 14:48:49 gw pppd[5852]: ioctl(TIOCSCTTY): Operation not permitted > > What does this error mean and is there anything I can do about it? We are It means that pppd was not allowed to acquire its tty line as the controlling tty. There are several conditions that must be met in order to be allowed to get a ctty. No idea how to fix this in your case. No idea what might break, except that pppd won't be able to get tty-driver generated signals (like SIGHUP). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)