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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
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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.

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Mark van Loon
EMail: mvanloon@vision.net.au
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