From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 31 7:33:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB5C37B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13UVOz-000KLP-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:33:13 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA33206 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:33:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:33:12 +0100 From: Rasputin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp broken? Message-ID: <20000831153312.B33104@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000829102745.A36405@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000830114835.J32456@vuurwerk.nl> <20000830225328.J62475@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000830225328.J62475@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:53:28PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:53:28PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:48:35AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:19:21AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Looks like a parsing error. ppp doesn't accept more than one tab after > > 'add default HISADDR', it seems. Someone file a PR, please :) > > Nowhere that I can find is it documented that comments can be put on > lines with a command. From ppp(8), > > o A line starting with a (``#'') character is treated as a comment > line. Leading whitespace are ignored when identifying comment lines. > > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com Fair enough, but those comments are in the default ppp.conf file. (As of 4.0-RELEASE, at least; are these updated as part of make world?) Perhaps just a mention that the syntax has become tighter in UPDATING would do it? -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message