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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 1999 17:01:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange (to me) log problem with ppp and qdial
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091700490.1164-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF7B9120@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:

> I'm new to freebsd from Debian Linux. I sent this weekend close to 30 hours
> working on get ppp to work. Finally on sunday and 8pm I got a ppp connection
> with qdial. So I connected fine and was happy. Then I disconnected and tried
> to connect again and qdial write a log file until var is full and then will
> not connect. My log qdial log file had 7000 lines. This i don't understand.
> I notice that the lines where also in my /var/log/messages. Is there anyway
> to shut off logs or to automagically clear them. I found where to set /tmp
> clear on boot and log after 21 days. 

Use /usr/bin/ppp.  It has a built in terminal and a great log.

Doug White                               
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