> 
> In my attempts in bringing up pppd, I have noticed something very, very,
> annoying. Though I have a perfectly good xconsole window running, the error
> messages still ignore it and blast all my other windows. Is there something
> that I haven't set up correctly? Constantly typing xrefresh gets annoying.

You have a console configured without "options UCONSOLE". Start your
console X window (the one you tell to take over as the console, by
adding a -c to its command line, I think) while you are root.

So su to root, then fire off the xterm. Now all your messages will
go to the xterm.

Take care,

Bill