From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 10:00:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA20047 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:00:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20042 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01220; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:02:46 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:02:46 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601041802.LAA01220@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP dialup In-Reply-To: <199601041714.MAA06308@etinc.com> References: <199601041714.MAA06308@etinc.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I am using a USR 28.8 internal modem for PPP dialup and everything seems > to work fine, except when pppd is first run I get a flurry of error messages > like the > following: > > pppd[XXXX]: ioctl (PPPIOCGFLAGS): inappropriate ioctl for device > pppd[XXXX]: fcntl (IF_SETFL,fdflags): inappropriate ioctl for device > pppd[XXXX]: ioctl (TIOCSETD): inappropriate ioctl for device > > > obvoisly something is set wrong, although there seems to be little > impact as everything seems to work.... Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure it's based on process group ownerships and such, but it is harmless. There is probably a way to avoid it by running it with a controlling terminal or some-such, but it wouldn't allow it to run automatically then. What exactly was the problem with the modem not working? Nate