Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:33:56 +1200 From: wheely <wheely@thevortex.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP: !bg processes Message-ID: <199806141033.WAA13612@smtp2.ihug.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199806140951.KAA06341@awfulhak.org> References: <Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:51:37 %2B1200." <199806140751.TAA31111@smtp2.ihug.co.nz>
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At 09:51 PM 14/06/98 , Brian Somers wrote: >> I have just upgraded my user PPP that came with 2.2.5-RELEASE to ppp980612 >> and I cannot get the !bg processes to send back their results to the >> console. How do you do this with the new PPP version? Ideally I would like >> to define for each process if the results are sent back or not as I want to >> see what the results of my Dynamic DNS update but not know about sendmail >> etc starting. > >It's not possible. Ppp puts the process in the background and >disowns it so that it doesn't have to muck around with non-blocking >wait()s and doesn't leave piles of defunct processes hanging around. I might as well revert to user-ppp in 2.2.5 as this version supported it. >Why do you want to know ? Can't you decide in whatever script or >program that you're running on what to do on failure (even use pppctl >to tell ppp to do something) ? I don't really need ppp to do something (haven't looked at that side of things). If there is an error with the program it dumps a webpage of details about the error, but all i am really interested in is it telling me if it ran without errors or if there was one. Heres the URL to the program. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6494/mlddc.html >> Also is it possible to echo on the console part of the login process >> without using the term? One of my ISP's has a MOTD after I (or the chat >> script) enter my password. > > set log local +chat That displays the whole lot, I'm looking for an event like: Expect "Welcome" set log local +chat Expect [ppp gibberish] set log local -chat wheely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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