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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 1995 13:03:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Cc:        erich@jake.lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ijppp feature request
Message-ID:  <199507081103.NAA19833@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507072321.TAA12941@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Jul 7, 95 07:21:43 pm

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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. ;-)



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