Re: 3 Questions
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained.
> The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for
> linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh?
Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM='
to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the
actual shell.
> >Use "pppd -d /dev/cua1" instead, and your program will go away.
oops - I meant problem.
> >> Also, why is there no "ppp-off" script included with the ppp package?
> >
> >There is - /etc/ppp/ip-down
>
> But isn't this only executed after the link goes down? How do I tell
> the link that I want it to go down - that's what I thought ppp-off was
> for?
Read the manpage for ppp under the signals option. Send it a SIGTERM
with for example "killall pppd".
> Also, if I put things like "reset the modem" in "ip-down", won't
> this happen even when pppd dies prematurely like I mention above (in
> which case I want to restart pppd rather than resetting the modem.)
Use the persist option for this.
Guy
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