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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: khelbin@enigma.mips4.com
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On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 01:07:02AM -0500, khelbin@enigma.mips4.com wrote:
> Shouldn't ppp (user process) give me a "ppp on host> " prompt after being
> invoked?  That's what it appears that it should do in the man page of the
> ppp command here on an x86 running freebsd 3.0 snapshot.

Well, in all its glory it should look like:

User Process PPP. Written by Toshiharu OHNO.
Log level is 281
Warning: No password entry for this host in ppp.secret
Warning: All manipulation is allowed by anyone in the world
Using interface: tun0
Interactive mode
ppp ON freebie>

> Instead, I simply get the header "PPP User Process. Written by Toshiharu OHNO"
> and then it sorta "hangs" as if you had enterd the command "cat > file"
> (except of course, this is ppp, not cat).

Hmmm.  It shouldn't do that.

> Any ideas, or explanations on how I am using this command wrong/havn't read
> the man pages carefully enough would be appreciated. Please reply via email.

Well, you *should* configure it :-)  On the other hand, I have just
tried this on a completely unconfigured 2.2.2 system, and I get the
same results.  Is there anything special about your system?

Greg