From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 17:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29710 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29593 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:49:13 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03663; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:36:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804170036.BAA03663@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Doug White cc: Brian Somers , lindsay evenson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial up In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:12:33 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:36:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > > It may be of interest... with the MP branch, we can now ^Z then ``bg'' > > ppp :-) The -current & -stable branches of ppp now warn that you're > > suspending ppp operations when you ``shell'', but the 2.2.2 version > > did not :-( > > Actually, I've done that with versions all the way back to 2.1.x days. It > depends on my mood though -- I'll leave it running in an xterm if I'm in > X, or else I'll reclaim my console. :) The ability to `fg' was broken though, and the whole mechanism was a bit crufty.... It's now a bit cleaner. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message