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From: Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console login causes ppp to dial
Date: 4 May 1996 05:52:53 GMT
Organization: a2i network
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Message-ID: <4merbl$14d@samba.rahul.net>
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In <4mdl0g$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> writes:
>>Running 2.1R, when I login on a virtual console it creates a bit of network
>>activity (name lookup would be my wild guess), which triggers ppp to dial.
>Are you using tcsh? The one that shipped with 2.1R was buggy and
>caused some network traffic on each startup. Replace it by a newer
>version.
>--
>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. ;-)
I received a note from someone also pointing to tcsh (thanks!), and
apparently I hadn't updated it after upgrading to 2.1R (I was still on tcsh
6.05). I updated to 6.06 from the 2.1R CD and I think it has fixed the
problem. I'll still check for a newer version on the ftp site though....
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