From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 15 03:02:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA16773 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 03:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA16768 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 03:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id DAA19258 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 03:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from uucp2.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: uucp2.UU.NET [192.48.96.40]) id QQcgyu09199; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 06:00:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp2.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 06:00:54 -0500 Received: from team.aval.kiev.ua by clipper.cs.kiev.ua with smtp id m0w5r8o-000t1oC; Sat, 15 Mar 97 12:56 WET Received: from team.aval.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by team.aval.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00454; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:56:36 GMT Message-ID: <332A9C83.41C67EA6@omega.aval.kiev.ua> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:56:35 +0000 From: "Dmitry I. Cherkasov" Organization: Aval X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc%FreeBSD.ORG@relay.ua.net Subject: A strange place in the Handbok Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! While reading FreeBSD Handbook I came across a strange (to my opinion) place in the following file: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook173.html#408 What I consider strange is: "To connect: 1.Dial to the remote host using kermit ( or other modem program ) enter your user name and password ( or whatever is needed to enable PPP on the remote host ) 2.Exit kermit. ( without hanging up the line ) 3.enter: /usr/src/usr.sbin/pppd.new/pppd /dev/tty01 19200" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I am not an expert but starting program from "src" directory looks strange. Anyway my installation lacks /usr/src/usr.bin/pppd.new directory while pppd binary lays in /usr/sbin. Drop this letter if what I'm saying is silly :-) Thanx. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Dmitry chd@omega.aval.kiev.ua