Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:23:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Richard Morte <richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: pppctl configuration Message-ID: <199910041523.QAA02813@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:37:09 BST." <37F07024.9AC82224@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to be able to control ppp running in -auto mode by using
> pppctl, but I cannot get it to work properly.
>
> The appropriate entries in ppp.conf appear to be:
>
> set server /var/run/internet "" 0177 # (taken from the FreeBSD Boook)
>
> or, with a password:
>
> set server /var/tmp/internet "MySecretPassWord 0177
There's a quote missing....
> to close the connection the following can be issued via a shell script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec pppctl /var/run/internet set timeout 300\;close
>
> But all I get is the message "Socket operation on non-socket". Any ideas
> what else I need to do?
Try ``ls -l /var/run/internet''. Do you mean /var/tmp/internet ? Is
said file a named socket ? Did the ``set server'' command complain
about anything ?
> Cheers
>
> ric
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