From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 23:10:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17754 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA17749 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA03211; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:10:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: khelbin@enigma.mips4.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html In-Reply-To: <9709020507.AA04976@ntplx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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