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To: "Bret Ford" <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu>
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Subject: Re: PPP issues 
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> >[.....]
> >>    The other problem I've had has occured only in FreeBSD-stable.
> >> Under -release, I was able to do "ppp -alias provider >& /dev/null &"
> >[.....]
> >
> >Mmmm, "ppp -alias provider" *never* did anything except give you an
> >interactive session.  Do you mean "ppp -alias -auto provider" ?
> >
>    No, I haven't tried it as anything other than an interactive session.  I
> had
> previously been able to chuck the output into null, as above.  Haven't
> ventured into -auto, -background, etc.

So what's "ppp -alias provider >&/dev/null &" supposed to do that 
"ppp -alias -background provider" won't ?

> Bret Ford

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