<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Antonio Olivares <<a href="mailto:olivares14031@yahoo.com">olivares14031@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, charles zeitler <<a href="mailto:cfzeitler@gmail.com">cfzeitler@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > From: charles zeitler <<a href="mailto:cfzeitler@gmail.com">cfzeitler@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: active network connection stops working...<div><div class="h5"> > </div></div>What is the output of $ su - passwd: # ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up In my case it is the following: [olivares@localhost ~]$ ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 430 2008-11-11 10:51 /etc/ppp/ip-up This might help find out what is happening. Regards, Antonio [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -iprm 2.6.30.2 i686 i686 i386 </blockquote></div> thank you Antonio, for the reply. here is my ls -l : -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 430 2009-05-01 15:35 /etc/ppp/ip-up and my ls -Z: -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:pppd_initrc_exec_t:s0 /etc/ppp/ip-up Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley