Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:44:37 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Bret Ford" <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP issues Message-ID: <199709191044.LAA25082@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:24:52 PDT." <199709181425.HAA09487@uop.cs.uop.edu>
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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.
So what's "ppp -alias provider >&/dev/null &" supposed to do that
"ppp -alias -background provider" won't ?
> Bret Ford
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