Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!emx.utexas.edu!mclay From: mclay@vato.ae.utexas.edu (Robert McLay) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Problems w/ PPP and setsid Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 15:19:19 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Distribution: comp Organization: CFD Lab, Dept ASE-EM, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 73 When I use PPP over a serial line between a sun4/330 and a sun 4/20 both running sunOS 4.1, I get the following error message: ppp: setsid(): Not owner. and the connection over the modem hangs up. I haven't been able to figure out what I'm not the owner of. Is there some discussion somewhere which will explain about setsid(2)? The man page is too terse for me to understand. Here is the details of the set up I'm using. I have the PPP from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu from pub/ppp-sparc4.1.tar.Z. I have an account on the work machine (sun4/330) called Pmclay Pmclay:79SXQ7UAnIvZY:4:8:PPP start Robert McLay:/tmp:/usr/local/etc/pppstart Here is what pppstart looks like: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mesg n stty -tostop hupcl exec /usr/local/etc/ppp -p 128.83.152.29: Heres what ppp is set to: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root uucp 147456 Jan 10 12:59 /usr/local/etc/ppp* Here is exactly what happens when I try to login by hand. Script started on Thu Jan 10 13:23:07 1991 bash$ tip tb connected RRING CONNECT 9600 navier.ae.utexas.edu login: Pmclay Last login: Thu Jan 10 13:20:53 on ttya SunOS Release 4.1_PSR_A (NAVIER) #10: Wed Jan 2 13:47:27 CST 1991 ~ppp: setsid(): Not owV~ai2#6J (ZgOZo-wY 'J4] |?#j h7u:#T >s4cxS* ?),,l9;/z8af2i =R{2o.jU)GT{\YlB wD@$m|B~A'i{qCf*}^ K Kq/D";[b.89q!4-N ]1b>qbb4?]x7ZCh$Ts8]/R Lc6$k:0D(*_Z$pcg W%Vy$o ?kw{%dh Ehl0LnS NO CARRIER Lost carrier. [EOT] [EOT] script done on Thu Jan 10 13:24:38 1991 Note that if I delete the exec in pppstart it does work. Any ideas? -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Robert McLay | When you have a problem, put NO in front of Manager CFD Lab | it and you have: NO PROBLEM. Dept ASE-EM | University of Texas at Austin | -- Eric Beckman's 2nd Law | mclay@wilbur.ae.utexas.edu |