Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:09:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: wheely <wheely@thevortex.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP: !bg processes Message-ID: <199806151909.UAA08887@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:50:47 %2B1200." <199806150150.NAA07273@smtp1.ihug.co.nz>
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> At 07:30 AM 15/06/98 , Brian Somers wrote:
>
> >I don't follow. What did it support ? 2.2.5 redirects descriptors 0
> >1 & 2 to /dev/null, fork()s and daemon(1, 1)s before execing the
> >program. This is exactly the same behaviour as the 980612 version.
>
> Ok, I think I have confused you by saying iI would like it on the console.
> I run ppp by telneting into FreeBSD from win95, giving ppp its own screen
> using "screen", typing ppp, dial provider...
> In my ppp.linkup I have !bg dnsupdate. On ppp2.2.5 the results on this
> program came up in the ppp telnet window. An example from the program is
> printf( "Host %s.%s NOT updated.\n", myhost, MYDOMAIN );. On ppp980612 I do
> not see a thing back from the script unless I do it manually (I just found
> manually works ok ie. typing !bg dnsupdate in ppp). I know it is executing
> (or trying to) on the linkup cause I "set log local +Command." and I am
> getting Command: MYADDR: !bg dnsupdate
Ah,
The problem here is that the old version of ppp used to have either
one or zero command prompts. It was therefore easy to decide where
to attach the commands output. Now, output goes to /dev/null unless
a specific ``prompt'' has executed the command.
> wheely
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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