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
