Bug 6588 - netcfg fails to activate ppp interface
Summary: netcfg fails to activate ppp interface
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-11-01 06:08 UTC by vvzhy
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-12-01 19:35:59 UTC
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Description vvzhy 1999-11-01 06:08:34 UTC 
Pressing button "Activate" on the netcfg panel fails to
activate ppp interfaces. It seems that netcfg tries to
execute
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
in wrontg envinoment since I start
ifup ifcfg-ppp0
manually (being in the directory
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/) ererything goes just
fine.
Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 1999-11-19 20:54:59 UTC 
Thank you for a very good bug report; it made it quite easy to find
and fix the bug.  It will be fixed in the next initscripts release.
In the meantime, you can use rp3 or usernet to control the interface,
or you can use
  ifup ppp0
and
  ifdown ppp0
to bring your ppp device up and down from the command line.
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