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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
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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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
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