From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 13:07:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA17922 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com (train.tgci.com [205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA17917 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emilyd ([206.250.85.101]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA18094; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:20:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199709012020.NAA18094@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" Organization: The Grantsmanship Center To: adrian@virginia.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:06:22 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: the signature Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal References: <2.2.32.19970901064026.0068f3bc@elite.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:06:40 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" [snip] > > Here's what I use to dial-up and connect. I had to su to cat it > because it is read protected for the obvious reaons. Replace the stuff > in {}'s with your site specific values. > > > : adrian@lorax; su root -c "cat /etc/ppp/chat" Out of curiosity what is the "-c" option? Does it mean "run the command [and exit]" ? It doesn't seem to be documented under "man su". Is it documented elsewhere? Cheers Riley [snip] > Adrian > -- > adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and > System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, > Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... > http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ > > >