Curiously, running pppd by hand (as opposed to from an otherwise
reliable script) pppd ran and has run subsequently from the same
script that failed before *and* pppstats started working.
Unfortunately, 1.3.20 has crashed twice on me while in X. In both
cases I came back to a completely frozen machine (with the hard drive
LED on) forcing me to hit RESET. I was not able to find any message
in /var/adm/xxxx suggesting what happened save it took over an hour in
each case. I have since dropped back to 1.3.14 which has a far better
track record.
Rick