Here's a strange problem for you all.  I had a linux (redhat 5.2) server
and two windows 98 workstations.  Everything was working fine as of this
morning.  I moved the server to another room and booted it up without
moving either workstation.  The server no longer seems to know root's
path any more (I have to type the absolute path for my alternate ppp-on
program and for shutdown), and the ppp-on script dies without ever even
dialing.  The modem works and is responding, since I'm logged onto here
with it.

Could removing a workstation or two from a network mess up defined paths
and/or the way ppp works on the server?  I'm really confused...

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If there was a networked drive somewhere in the path, and it was before
/usr/sbin or wherever ppp-on is, then it could result in the problems
you're seeing.  Since ppp-on is a script, and envokes pppd, if it didn't
use an absolute path to envoke it, it would have the same problem. 
That's the only thing I can think of, other than moving the computer
damaged your disk, including the file that set root's path.

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