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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Message-Id: <199610230821.KAA24801@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: docs/1383
To: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org (Marc G. Fournier)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:21:05 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: marcs@worldgate.com, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org,
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199610230440.VAA04927@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Oct 22, 96 09:40:03 pm"
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As Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Synopsis: ppp(8) man page suggests using shell script for login shell
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> State-Changed-By: scrappy
> State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:38:32 PDT 1996
> State-Changed-Why: 
> 
> Confirm Status

Still present.

There are not much risks with `interpreted executables' other than
the one described there.  This one however can easily be avoided by
suggesting

        #!/bin/sh
        exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct

in the man page.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)