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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!dubhe.anu.edu.au!sirius.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au (Paul Mackerras) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: ppp from commandline Date: 23 Aug 1994 09:44:26 +1000 Organization: Department of Computer Science, Australian National University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <33bd8q$gor@sirius.anu.edu.au> References: <32tqap$bkn@iaehv.iaehv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.anu.edu.au guido@iaehv.iaehv.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: >I want to offer ppp on my machine to others. The preferred method is >that people type in ppp and then the tty switches to ppp, like annex's >do. Folks come in via hardwired lines. >However, when I start ppp it complains that it cannot get the tty it works >on as the controlling tty. Are you specifying a tty name on the command line or in an options file? If you want pppd to use its controlling terminal, don't give it any serial device name. BTW, I would be inclined to make `ppp' a script which invokes pppd, so users can't specify random options to pppd. Paul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.au Dept. of Computer Science Australian National University