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From: Bill Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
To: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>
cc: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How do I recover when my FreeBSD Computer Reboots
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Not a "ppp guru" but I load ppp on boot like this.

In /etc/rc.local

# put your local stuff here
# PPP
# /usr/sbin/ppp -auto cybcon (or whatever you want)


On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Jim Mock wrote:

> At 08:52 AM 10/6/98 -0500, you wrote: 
> >
> > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7 on a Pentium system. I use 
> > ppp and Apache to make this machine a web server which 
> > I can then access from remote sites. Trouble is, if the 
> > weather turns bad, like this morning, and the computer 
> > reboots, how do I get ppp and Apache to reload automatically 
> > even if no one is there to re-login?  Can these two programs 
> > be run even if the login prompt is ignored?
> 
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> You can start Apache from /etc/rc.local by adding..
> 
> # put your local stuff here
> /usr/local/sbin/httpd
> 
> Not sure about ppp.. never tried it on reboot.  You'll have to rely on the ppp
> gurus for that one.
> 
> Hope this helps..
> 
> Jim
> 
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