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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ppp and chat
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On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Ron Steele wrote:

> I have a ppp chat script that works about half the time.  How do I get
> ppp to log the login conversation to a file so I can debug this, and what is
> the file called?  I have tried setting debug and log levels and it doesn't
> seem to have any effect at all.  I have been looking at the messages and
> ppp.log files.

	add the line 'debug chat' to the default section of your 
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf.   then start a 'tail -f /var/log/ppp.log'  in one 
window/screen.   in another ping your isp.  the chat script operations 
will be written to /var/log/ppp.log

	like this:

12-11 19:22:44 [13750] PPP Started.
12-11 19:23:02 [13750] Expecting 
12-11 19:23:02 [13750] sending: ATE1Q0
12-11 19:23:02 [13750] Expecting OK-AT-OK
12-11 19:23:02 [13750] Wait for (5): OK --> OK
12-11 19:23:03 [13750] sending: ATDT.......         <-- phone number removed
12-11 19:23:03 [13750] Expecting CONNECT
12-11 19:23:03 [13750] Wait for (40): CONNECT --> CONNECT
dial OK!
12-11 19:23:25 [13750] Expecting mmer>-\r-mmer>-\r-mmer>
12-11 19:23:25 [13750] Wait for (10): mmer> --> mmer>

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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