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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
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