On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 
> >   Now I'm having trouble with my connection to my ISP.  I can connect.
> > But then I can't run any programs that work with my isp connection.
> > Like pine, lynx etc,  But the funny thing is, they all seem to work if
> > I am logged in as root.
> > 
> >  Lynx opens in the xterm window, but then I get "unable to connect to
> > remote host" messages.  What could I have messed up that would only affect
> > the normal users connection and not the root connection to the ISP?
> 
> What is the output of `ls -l /etc/resolv.conf'? It needs to be
> world-readable.

  Yes,  that was the problem.  It seems that my ppp-up and ppp-down
scripts that I got from one of the kits, do some moving of resolv.conf
to resolv.conf.down and vice versa.  Between using the ppp-up and down
scripts  and xisp ( which also uses that resolv.conf file )  something got
messed up with that file.  I did the "chmod 666 resolv.conf " and it seems
to be working now.

  Thanks for your help,


		Guy 

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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.3!
South Korea
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