From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 5:52: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seaholm.caamora.com.au (seaholm.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA7937B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by seaholm.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6UCpoR08047; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:51:50 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <20010730225150.33089@caamora.com.au> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:51:50 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: where to put pppd startup script ???? rc.conf ??? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG greetings all i've been using kernel ppp (aka pppd) for a while now and was watching a power-outage recovery during one of teh bad storms (losts of very cold winds and rain, thankfully no lightening) we have had here in a while. currently, i start pppd with a script (by hand mainly) but the machine has been stable (its on a small ups, local australian product and i'm not a programmer so i've not worked out how to rejig teh many ups c sources to make my sola work with with any of the american ones that teh programes are written for). sorry i digress. where, would the pppd startup segment be best put in rc.local ? rc.network or rc.conf ???? i tried with rc.network but got a hung computer -- i tried reading up on teh booting process but the general "Unix" book was more a tome on sys V r3.2 than a text on berkeley unix some sugestions thoughts cc's appreciated (jlm at caamora dot com dot au) as i'm not subscribed to -questions anymore. also can anyone recommend a book to read up on topics like this (i have teh greg lehey tomes, one through 2 and a ed 3 somewhere). with regards and much thanks jonathan -- ================================================================ Jonathan Michaels http://repaired.soon.maybe PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 suffering construction anxiety ============================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message