From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 8:52:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from transporter.cybertours.com (transporter.cybertours.com [208.130.42.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28B137B405 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from misterb@cybertours.com) Received: from pretorian (skywalker.cybertours.com [208.130.43.221]) by transporter.cybertours.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA02970; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <015c01c1190f$935660c0$0600a8c0@sacoriver.net> From: "Brent Bailey" To: "jonathan michaels" , References: <20010730225150.33089@caamora.com.au> Subject: Re: where to put pppd startup script ???? rc.conf ??? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:51:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 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 you want to put that in pppd script in /etc/rc.conf IF you want it to run at boot B ----- Original Message ----- From: jonathan michaels To: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:51 AM Subject: where to put pppd startup script ???? rc.conf ??? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message