Sorry I can’t help any further, but shortly after configuring the PPTP on CentOS the server crashed and I decided to migrate to Ubuntu.

Good luck with it.

i’m on CENOS 5 (trixbox)

[server/]# uname -a
Linux server 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:30:27 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[server/]# modprobe ppp-compress-18 && echo ok
ok
[server /]#
SERVER /]# service pptpd start
pptpd: unrecognized service

server /]# cd etc/ppp/
[server ppp]#
[server ppp]# ls -ls
total 104
4 -rw——- 1 root root 115 Jun 28 02:34 chap-secrets
8 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 1042 Jan 7 2007 firewall-masq
8 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 913 Jan 7 2007 firewall-standalone
4 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 May 24 2008 ioptions
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 386 Sep 24 2008 ip-down
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3485 Sep 24 2008 ip-down.ipv6to4
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 430 Sep 24 2008 ip-up
12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6687 Sep 24 2008 ip-up.ipv6to4
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1916 Sep 24 2008 ipv6-down
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3369 Sep 24 2008 ipv6-up
4 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 5 Jan 21 05:27 options
4 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 128 Jun 28 02:30 options.pptp
4 -rw——- 1 root root 77 Jan 21 05:27 pap-secrets
8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 11 22:31 peers
8 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 104 Jan 7 2007 pppoe-server-options

PLEASE HELP ME Why i can’t start the service ?? Thanks