I think that's coming from KPPP trying to write a lockfile for Joe User into a
directory that belongs to Root. I believe the lockfile goes into the /etc/
ppp/ or /etc/ppp/peers directory. Dig through SuSE's book and see if they say
where. Give users write permission to those directories, and that should fix
things up.
On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:54, you wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 00:01, Richard Smoot wrote:
> > On Friday 26 August 2005 18:56, Tim Wright wrote:
> > > You need to go in as root and change the properties of kppp, check off
> > > the "Set UID" checkbox. Making it readable and writable does not make
> > > it executable for any user. I've run into the same problem myself with
> > > new installs or major upgrades to KDE.
> >
> > As root I can get to properties of KPPP in Konqueror, but I can not
> > change them with Konqueror.
> > What do you use to change the KPPP properties?
> >
> > Richard Smoot
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Filemanager in Superuser mode let me change the set UID bit.
> I can now bring up KPPP as user OK, but now I get a "Unable to
> create a modem lock file" message when I query the modem to
> it up.
>
> Richard Smoot
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