From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 26 17:56:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14854 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12156 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25669; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:45:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804262345.AAA25669@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Jos Backus cc: Jason Nordwick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current PPP question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:28:11 +0200." <19980426162811.A3103@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:45:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi Jason, > > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 07:06:38AM -0000, Jason Nordwick wrote: > > I do it from 3.0-980222-SNAP, so I think so. > > I cvsupped and made the world on Saturday, so I should be up to date. > > > If nobody answers I'll try to create the error. > > Thanks, I appreciate that. > Another funny thing I'm seeing: if I replace the script invocation > > !/usr/local/sbin/isdn-auth > > with > > \"!/usr/sbin/ppp -direct tue-isdn-auth\" > > and do ``ppp tue-isdn'' followed by a manual ``dial'', I see this: [.....] What are you trying to achieve here ? The "!" syntax allows you to run external programs that know how to talk stdin/stdout to your modem (such as chat). Running ppp again will just result in two programs striving to control the same device :-/ Also, you probably should upgrade to the version on http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian. AFAIR, the select() problem you mentioned was caused by a long-since-fixed bug in libalias. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message