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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: troubles with PPP login scripts Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:01:28 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31F14928.2D2D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bb6ecb.baf119c0$38673fcb@simonh.addease.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Simon Harris wrote: > > My ISP login looks like the following: > > Username:$name > Password: $password > $xxxxx> PPP $name > Server nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn translating $name to ......... > Password: $password > > where $name is my username, $password is my password and $xxxxx is a > string that changes for every logon. because $xxxxx changes, I can only > search for '>' but the script appears to bum out when looking for '>' with > 'login failed'. If I go into terminal mode, I can type: > > PPP $name > > and it aks for my password and I all is dandy. This implies that the > script has not found the '>'? > Can you send the first $password, do a PAUSE, and then send your PPP line? I would think that perhaps a 10-second pause would be likely to ensure the $xxxxx prompt appearing. Or, your ISP may even save the keystrokes for when the prompt does show up. Then you can wait normally for the next prompt. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |