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From: "Bret Ford" <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu>
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Subject: Re: PPP issues 
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:24:52 -0700
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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.

Bret Ford