[gentoo-dev] Fwd: kppp on Gentoo Linux

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: kppp on Gentoo Linux

[Bart Verwilst]

Hi! Could somebody please take a look at the problem listed below?
I don't know wether it's a core system issue, or a kppp one, since i never 
used kppp in my life :o)

Thanks!

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Subject: kppp on Gentoo Linux
Date: Saturday 04 January 2003 04:38
From: Harri Porten <porten@trolltech.com>
To: verwilst@gentoo.org

Hi Bart,

I'm the maintainer of kppp and I'm writing to you since I saw that you
were involved in creating KDE packages for Gentoo Linux at some point in
time. If your are not the right person to talk to please forward my mail
to the appropriate developer. Thanks.

In the 2nd comment of

 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30805

you'll find a Gentoo user observing permission problems with
/etc/resolv.conf while using kppp. As kppp doesn't create that file (it
just reads&writes) I see no way how it can be responsible for changing
both owner and permissions of that file.
As stated in my last comment I think that the if-up/if-down scripts I
found to be potentially problematic. Depending on what they are supposed
to do a chown and chmod call migh be in order to ensure the proper setup.

Please tell me about your opinion on where the problem really lies. If
it's in kppp I'll try to fix it. If you can give a statement on possible
improvements on your side I'll also be greatful to know. I'd like to close
this report and probably update the kppp FAQ.

Thanks,

Harri.

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Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

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