From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 8 04:12:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA09241 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 04:12:49 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA08625 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 04:09:53 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04190; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 13:09:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA25445; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 13:08:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA19833; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 13:03:45 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507081103.NAA19833@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ijppp feature request To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 13:03:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: erich@jake.lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507072321.TAA12941@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Jul 7, 95 07:21:43 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 681 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Withrow wrote: > > > well, there is a `/etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample', which sounds close to what > > you want. dunno about the link down stuff. > > > > This probably belongs in `questions' too. > > You speak too soon. The commands allowed in the linkup script are > limited to ppp commands. No way to execute arbitrary shell commands. > > That is why it was in hackers. I've just sent a megapatch to Atsushi, implementing the "shell" (alias "!") subcommand, and implementing job control (so you can background it by ^Z). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)