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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: format of ip-up file
Date: 13 Apr 1996 00:34:20 GMT
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nagy@gypsy.topend.com.au (Robert Nagy) writes:

> Apr 11 17:09:11 gypsy pppd[19924]: can't execute /etc/ppp/ip-down: Exec 
> format error

Your programs are not suitable for execve(2).


EXECVE(2)                 FreeBSD Programmer's Manual                EXECVE(2)

NAME
     execve - execute a file
..

DESCRIPTION
     Execve() transforms the calling process into a new process.  The new pro-
     cess is constructed from an ordinary file, whose name is pointed to by
     path, called the new process file. This file is either an executable ob-
     ject file, or a file of data for an interpreter.  An executable object
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
..
     An interpreter file begins with a line of the form:

           #! interpreter [arg]


So basically, assuming your ip-{up,down} are shell script files, add the

#!/bin/sh

on top, and you should be going.

-- 
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. ;-)