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Mike Holland wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Stephen Smart wrote:
<p>> I got Linux about a week ago and until then had never seen it, so
Im
<br>> about as new to it as you can get.
<p>Hello Max and welcome. You'll find Linux very easy and be an expert
in a
<br>few weeks.
<br> Would you believe a few months? OK, two years of intense
study.</blockquote>
<u>Sounds like a lot of fun, I have no intention of studying Linux (not
yet anyway) although since I</u>
<br><u>got it I cant stay away from it and my wife wants to know who the
stranger is on the computer</u>
<br><u>in the back room. I have no misconceptions on using Linux and know
it would take a long time</u>
<br><u>to learn the basics let alone anything else. BUT I am having fun.</u>
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<p>May we ask what attracted you to Linux?
<br>Are you keen to look under the bonnet and learn how it works, take
control
<br>of your machine? Thats where Linux works best.</blockquote>
<u>Yes to all of the above, sick of windows and the many faults that come
with it and would love to</u>
<br><u>have a little bit of control over what goes on.</u>
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<p>> net and get an error message "cant create modem lock file" I brought
Red
<p>You'll need to tell more. What was the full error message (it should
say
<br>which program)? How were you trying to connect? ie what command
or
<br>program were you using?</blockquote>
<u>using red hat 6 going to KDE menus, internet, KPPP</u>
<br><u>I click on setup then device and select /dev/ttys1 which works in
root</u>
<br><u>if the use lock file is ticked when I go to modem and query it I
get the message "sorry, cant create modem lock file" if i untick it I get
"sorry, cant open modem"</u>
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<p>The error is probably from 'pppd'. Type "man pppd" to learn about it.
<br>Maybe give it root privileges with "chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd".</blockquote>
<u>Tried that, also went to etc/ppp/options and removed the word lock</u>
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<p>> anything in either book. Everything I have read so far says if you
dont
<br>> know what your doing (thats me) dont play around in root.
<p>That makes sense in an office, when you have a sysadmin. But at home,
<br>just be aware that its dangerous, and only use root when needed.</blockquote>
<u>The only thing Im doing at the moment is trying to get my internet connection
to work in the</u>
<br><u>account so I can do a lot more reading and I can only do that
in root at the moment</u>
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Cheers Max</blockquote>
When I read about the evil's of drinking
<br>I gave up reading
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