Managing Serial Networks Using UUCP and PPP in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

How to Turn on PPP Debugging

The next task shows how to use the pppd command to obtain debugging information.

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

2. Create a log file to hold output from pppd.

   $ touch /var/log/pppdebug

3. Add the following syslog facilities for pppd in /etc/syslog.conf.

   daemon.debug;local2.debug       /var/log/pppdebug

4. Restart syslogd.

   $ pkill -HUP -x syslogd

5. Turn on debugging for calls to a particular peer by using the following syntax of pppd.

   $ pppd debug call peer-name 

   peer-name must be the name of a file in the /etc/ppp/peers directory.

6. View the contents of the log file.

   $ tail -f /var/log/pppdebug

   For an example of a log file, see How to Obtain Diagnostic Information for PPPoE.