From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 12:24:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from VM.SC.EDU (vm.sc.edu [129.252.45.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8290415506 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MBKING0@VM.SC.EDU) Received: by VM.SC.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R4a) via spool with SMTP id 4562 ; Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:23:55 EDT Received: from UNIVSCVM (NJE origin MBKING0@UNIVSCVM) by VM.SC.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 9182; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:23:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 99 15:13:19 EDT From: Marius Organization: University of South Carolina Subject: modems and ppp To: sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <19990602192407.8290415506@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >How many of the files in the /etc/ppp directory have to be edited to set >up ppp. How do you edit the files, make a copy and leave off the sample >at the end file and edit the copy? Example: copy ppp.conf.sample to >ppp.conf and edit ppp.conf to my specs, leaving the original in tack. Hmm... Just in case you were actually asking what commands to use, simply type the following: cp ppp.conf.sample ppp.conf vi ppp.conf The "cp" command copys the file, while leaving the original intact. The "vi" command opens the new file in the editor called vi. (Sure you could use emacs, or whatever your favorite is, but I -like- vi.) Then you simply edit the file to your choosing. Personally though, you would have to do a great deal of deleting if you used the ppp.conf.sample file. Frankly -I- just cut and pasted from the handbook webpage. One big block of text copyied, the line numbers taken out, and the spacing fixed from any pasting errors...and I was ready to surf. I didn't need to edit anything but ppp.conf since I am running a recent version of userland ppp. ---------------------------------------- Marius mbking0@vm.sc.edu University of South Carolina, Columbia "We will get along fine once you realize that I am almost always wrong." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message