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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sliplogin in 2.0.5 won't play, is 2.1 any easier?
Date: 30 Nov 1995 21:28:39 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (robert prohaska) writes:

> ..., but when I invoke
> sliplogin hostname
> (while su'd to root)
> the result is a complaint about SIGIOFLAGS and a flood of shell prompts.

You cannot usefully invoke this on a regular terminal.  Just get
another machine, either a direct line or two modems, and use it!

It works fine, we (sax.sax.de) are operating an ISP with 2.0.5, with
SLIP and PPP access.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)