From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 20:15:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA21160 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21151 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA04260; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:06:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id EAA04989; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:06:27 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199708010306.EAA04989@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd questions mailing list) Subject: Re: current ppp sources In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:05:16 +0800." <199707311305.VAA00677@vas.tomsk.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 04:06:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > > I am using FreeBSD 2.1.6. I have just downloaded the ppp-970713.src.tar.gz > > > from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. > > > > > > Is it safe to just "make" and then "make install"? Am I not going to destroy > > > my current ppp (works perfectly, I just want some features which are not > > > available in 2.1.6). > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Make install will overwrite any existing ppp. Just move > > /usr/sbin/ppp before the make > > It does not seem to install any new man pages and example config files. > Where can I obtain them? Hmm, the man pages should be installed ! For the config files, go to http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html. > There is one thing I would like to know. Is the problem with multiple phone > numbers fixed? I mean, does > > set phone 123456:456789:789456 > > work now? Always has.... if you've got spaces in the string, you need to quote it. > -- > Victor Sudakov > http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm > > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....