[aclug-L] Re: Getting by with a little help from my friends...

["Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Two things...

Who owns the file (owner,group)?
What are the file permissions?

Making both of those things the same as everything else that executes at 
startup would be the first thing I would look at.  But I don't run Suse 
either.

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:06:06AM -0500, Matt Pankratz wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Anyone able to offer some suggestions to a friend's quandry below? (Much
> Appreciated)
> 
> ----------
> Hey Matt,
> 
> I'm happily running SuSE 8.0. whoohoo!  suse rocks.
> 
> However, I have a little problem, and as my Madison LUG server seems to
> be blowing chunks, I thought I'd hit you up for a little advice.
> 
> Here's the thing: With my cable modem service I need to establish a VPN
> connection to the university.  I can do this just fine.  However, I want
> to automate the process, so I wrote a tiny little script to run the two
> /sbin/route commands and the pptp client command.  My script consists of
> the following:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /sbin/route add -host 12.24.207.58 gw 10.44.124.1 dev eth0
> /sbin/route del default
> /usr/bin/pptp doit-cable name soisaac_3
> 
> exit 0
> 
> I put the script in /etc/init.d, and made a symbolic link to it from
> /etc/init.d/rc5.d (naming the link S12pptp-connect).  I reboot, and the
> system seems not to have executed it.  There's no entry of it in the
> boot log.  Would you have any inkling what's going on?  The script
> works--if I type "sh /etc/init.d/pptp-connect" in the terminal (as
> root).  ???  Is there something wrong with the name of my link, that it
> doesn't get run?
> ----------------------
> 
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