From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 6:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6D237B8F8 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 06:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@eng.ufl.edu) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03623; Tue, 9 May 2000 09:55:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39181818.AB10E6DE@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:52:24 -0400 From: Bob Johnson Organization: University of Florida X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: merlin@netlink.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp 'set filter' question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 01:47:36 +0000 > From: Darren Wyn Rees > Subject: Re: ppp 'set filter' question > > Kent Stewart : > > > Personally, I setup user-ppp to auto start in the background, nat, and > > demand dial. I currently have a runppp.sh in .../rc.d. I usually ping > > I don't have an 'rc.d' (though I had an /etc/rc.d/ with Linux). > I suppose I should be putting any file to put ppp in the background > (as per your suggestion above) in /etc/rc.conf ? > You probably do have an rc.d. Look in /usr/local/etc. Any *.sh scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d will be executed at startup. Putting rc.d in /usr/local/etc keeps your local extensions separated from the standard system configuration files. -- Bob ********************************************************* Bob Johnson Senior Systems Programmer bob@eng.ufl.edu College of Engineering 523 Weil Hall 352-392-9217 Office University of Florida 352-392-7063 Fax Gainesville, FL 32611 ********************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message