From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 18:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03430 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 18:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03119 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 18:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.kf7nn.com) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA01839; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:25:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kf7nn) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:15:47 -0500 (CDT) From: kf7nn@kf7nn.com To: BEAUPRE Antoine Subject: RE: Using minicom with a pppdaemon Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i think (someone correct me if i am wrong) that if you edit your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to include the 2 different sites you can run a terminal in the ppp program by doing ppp and then term to get the stuff from the site or run ppp -auto yoursite to use internet ppp. what i am trying to say is i think that ppp doesnt actually go into ppp mode until it "sees" ppp protocol otherwise it is just a terminal like minicom. thats where your script comes in where it says ogin: word: etc... dont know why no one else is answering your questions though i am a newbie of ~ 7 months now and still i am baffled on most of these commands. >I often need to check my remote account in a terminal. And ppp doesn't >provide (to my knowledge) the capability of transmitting commands and >executing programs on the remote host. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message