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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.ci.com.au!news.vision.net.au!usenet From: mvanloon@vision.net.au (Mark van Loon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPPD - minor problems Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 00:55:11 GMT Organization: Vision Internet Services. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <55be7m$grc@pandora.vision.net.au> References: <54q9n4$gir@pandora.vision.net.au> <550hh0$eus@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: porta19.vision.net.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 On 27 Oct 1996 20:43:12 GMT, J Wunsch wrote: >Has your shell been exiting before? >Better write the script in a way so that it `exec's pppd as its last >action. This way, the session (that will get the SIGHUP) will be >passed entirely to pppd, without any further instance of a shell. >This also saves some resources. >-- >cheers, J"org Will try to modify the perl script which runs pppd, I think that the only statement following is "exit". I will also try running pppd without a script and see what happens. Thanks for the info Jorg. Regards, Mark. ============================= Mark van Loon EMail: mvanloon@vision.net.au =============================