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From: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com>
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Subject: Re: Bizarre shutdown behavior
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> I found what was causing it. I had a "ppp" command in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/start.sh . This was the right thing in 3.1,
> but not quite in 4.3.
>
> The problem disappeared when I wrapped it inside a case statement:
>
> 	case "$1" in
> 	start)
> 	ppp -auto myisp
> 	esac

You can do this programmatically with options in /etc/rc.conf:

ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_mode="auto"
ppp_profile="myisp"

will start ppp automagically.  See rc.conf(5) for more /etc/rc.conf wizardry.

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William Richard
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