Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:51:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: wheely <wheely@thevortex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP: !bg processes Message-ID: <199806140951.KAA06341@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:51:37 %2B1200." <199806140751.TAA31111@smtp2.ihug.co.nz>
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> I have just upgraded my user PPP that came with 2.2.5-RELEASE to ppp980612
> and I cannot get the !bg processes to send back their results to the
> console. How do you do this with the new PPP version? Ideally I would like
> to define for each process if the results are sent back or not as I want to
> see what the results of my Dynamic DNS update but not know about sendmail
> etc starting.
It's not possible. Ppp puts the process in the background and
disowns it so that it doesn't have to muck around with non-blocking
wait()s and doesn't leave piles of defunct processes hanging around.
Why do you want to know ? Can't you decide in whatever script or
program that you're running on what to do on failure (even use pppctl
to tell ppp to do something) ?
> Also is it possible to echo on the console part of the login process
> without using the term? One of my ISP's has a MOTD after I (or the chat
> script) enter my password.
set log local +chat
> Thanks
> wheely
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