From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 15:30:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.generalsearch.net (smtp.generalsearch.net [64.14.229.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0980A37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from tonyr.office.generalsearch.net (unknown [63.109.63.65]) by smtp.generalsearch.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A3FB3FEE7; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:30:47 -0600 (CST) From: Anthony Rubin Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:30:45 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To: Adam Blake , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: pppctl command and usage MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00110917304501.06767@tonyr.office.generalsearch.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 09 November 2000 05:26 pm, Adam Blake wrote: > How do you properly use the pppctl command to look at an active ppp > session? It says that you must specify a socket to envoke the command? > How do you find out what this socket is? > > -Adam You need to add a "set server" line to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. Below are two examples from /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample. # # Ppp can accept control instructions from the ``pppctl'' program. # First, you must set up your control socket. It's safest to use # a UNIX domain socket, and watch the permissions: # set server /var/tmp/internet MySecretPassword 0177 # # Although a TCP port may be used if you want to allow control # connections from other machines: # set server 6670 MySecretpassword -- Anthony Rubin GeneralSearch.Com, Inc. tonyr@generalsearch.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message