From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 20:24:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA05907 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 20:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05900 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 20:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA01176; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:24:01 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 22 Dec 95 14:24:03 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 22 Dec 95 14:23:59 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: Michael Smith Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:23:51 -1000 Subject: Re: dialin & dialout ppp CC: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <6250544F4E@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 22 Dec 95 at 14:46, Michael Smith wrote: > Peter Stubbs stands accused of saying: > > The problem arrises from the /etc/ppp/options file being read > > before the command line options. > > Specify an alternate configuration file on the commandline in one or > both modes of invocation. > Thanks for your reply, but the manual says that /etc/ppp/options is read before command line options are read. I guess I could just move options to options.dialout, and make an options.dialin, but that seems very ugly! Cheers, Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432