From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 06:31:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA20663 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 06:31:29 -0700 Received: from relay.philips.nl (relay.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAB20656 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 06:31:26 -0700 Received: from knox.pcec.philips.com ([130.140.74.243]) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) with SMTP id PAA02980 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 15:30:52 +0200 Received: from eis16.philips.com by knox.pcec.philips.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17246; Wed, 21 Jun 95 09:30:40 EDT Received: by eis16.philips.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17439; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:30:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:30:39 -0400 From: wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com (ED WOLPERT ) Message-Id: <9506211330.AA17439@eis16.philips.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp in auto mode question Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Folks- I got 2.0.5R, (recent upgrade from 2.0R-cdrom) and love the ppp program. One thing I don't understand... and want to know if anyone has seen the same thing as me... If a user (not root) logs in, before ppp (that started at boot time, from the rc.local as 'ppp -auto connect') ever made a connection, it does not try to make a connection, and only will if the user tries to connect (ping, finger) the main router that the ppp program knows about. If the ppp program had made and, after a timeout period, dropped the connection... the next time a shell is started by a user, it automatically will try to connect to the host... even though no network connection is being attempted by the user. Has anyone seen this? It does not occur for root, and the .cshrc files are the same as the one created from the adduser command, except the SHELL is changed to tcsh (from csh). Ideas? -- Virtually, Edward Wolpert ------------------------------- "The best way out is always wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com | through." - Robert Frost wolpert@utk.edu | =============================== 'Give me a shell, and I'll Truth is what you believe. | give you the world.' (tm) ------------------------------- Fnord.