From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 10:51:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D265314CA4 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 24812 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1999 17:51:54 -0000 Received: from userad86.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.131.129) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 1999 17:51:54 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA00427; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:48:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:48:33 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: How to get ppp.linkup working? Message-ID: <19991012184833.C340@marder-1> References: <234F92BA3C7BD311BD31009027541A9503D6A0@wagner.bbn.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <234F92BA3C7BD311BD31009027541A9503D6A0@wagner.bbn.hp.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 05:43:55PM +0200, HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > Here is my file: > > # This file is checked after PPP establishes a network connection. > MYADDR: > !ntpdate ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de > > All I keep getting is 'unknown command' but looking at ppp.linkup.sample any > external programs are also simply prefaced with an exclamation mark... ...or ``bg'' or ``sh''. Try: MYADDR: bg ntpdate ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de HTH > What am I missing here? > > > TIA, > > Michael > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message