Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:30:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: wheely <wheely@thevortex.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP: !bg processes Message-ID: <199806141930.UAA23932@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:33:56 %2B1200." <199806141033.WAA13612@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. I don't follow. What did it support ? 2.2.5 redirects descriptors 0 1 & 2 to /dev/null, fork()s and daemon(1, 1)s before execing the program. This is exactly the same behaviour as the 980612 version. > >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. How is it supposed to tell you ? > 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 Well, I guess if you really need just this, you could run pppctl from the chat script and get it to connect back to ppp and switch chat logging on: set login "\"\" \"\" ogin: name word: passwd col: \"!pppctl \\\\-p xxx /var/run/ppp set log +chat\" \"\" ppp \"\" \"!pppctl \\\\-p xxx /var/run/ppp set log -chat\"" Should work ;-) > wheely -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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