Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:10:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: khelbin@enigma.mips4.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901230928.3114M-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <9709020507.AA04976@ntplx.net>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 khelbin@enigma.mips4.com wrote: > Shouldn't ppp (user process) give me a "ppp on host> " prompt after being > invoked? That's what it appears that it should do in the man page of the > ppp command here on an x86 running freebsd 3.0 snapshot. > > Instead, I simply get the header "PPP User Process. Written by Toshiharu OHNO" > and then it sorta "hangs" as if you had enterd the command "cat > file" > (except of course, this is ppp, not cat). ppp must be blocking while trying to open a file or device. Check /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, especially the `default' item, for any suspicious lines. Also make sure you have permission to open the specified modem device. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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