Re: Using Say in Chatscripts

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

John Hasler wrote:

> Kent writes:
>
> > What I understand from "man chat", the "SAY" command should echo out
> > messages when using "pon". However, although I can get dialed up, I do
> > not see the expected informational messages.
>
> Note the last sentence in this section of the chat man page:
>
>  SAY STRINGS
>       The SAY directive allows the script to send strings to the
>       user at the terminal via standard error.  If chat is being
>       run  by  pppd,  and  pppd is running as a daemon (detached
>       from its controlling terminal), standard error  will  nor­
>       mally be redirected to the file /etc/ppp/connect-errors.
Interestingly enough, "/etc/ppp/connect-errors" is completely empty.

> Try 'pon provider updetach'.
This did the job! Thanks!

I added a line ("updetach") to /etc/ppp/options, and now I can just type 
"pon" and get the same results. This is great! Thanks John!

Kent