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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:26:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>
To:        fredriks@mcs.com (Lars Fredriksen)
Cc:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntpdate
Message-ID:  <199506121826.NAA01263@mpp.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0sLDP9-0003kyC@mercury.mcs.com> from "Lars Fredriksen" at Jun 12, 95 12:36:03 pm

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> Mike Pritchard writes:
> [stuff deleted]
> > I used to use ntpdate in my old SLIP scripts without any problems,
> > but they only redirected stdin/out/err to /dev/null and ran
> > in the background.  Maybe some of the controlling tty stuff pppd is 
> > doing screws things up.
> 
> I might be out of my leauge here, but I tend to agree that there is something
> screwed up with the "Kerne" ppp line dicipline. You will notice that ping
> in the background will do the same.

I just saw an announcement in one of the Linux groups about a
new version of pppd (2.1.2d), and one of the fixes was to
reset all of the alarm masks back to default so that 
sendmail would work properly in the ip-up script.  

That sounded somewhat familar, so I applied the patch and sure 
enough, my ntpdate problem went away (ping started working in the
ip-up script, too).

So I guess after 2.0.5 gets out the door, we should upgrade pppd
to the new version.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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