hi there, i am able to make a ppp as well as pptp connection. then i got a strange problem. i wanted to see the debugging messages.....and no such file is created in /var/log/pptpd.log i ensured that there is a row in /etc/syslog.conf file, which reads.... daemon.debug pptpd /var/log/pptpd.log any ideas? regards, murali krishna vemuri