26 May
1998
26 May
'98
14:57
When I was using older versions of chat and pppd, I used the pppd option "nodetach" to keep pppd from becoming a background process, and the chat option "-vs" to direct all the output of chat to stderr. Then I could follow the progress of the dialup, and see when my dynamic IP address was assigned, confirming my connection. With pppd and chat in SuSE 5.2 I can't get this scheme to work. The new pppd option "-detach" seems equivalent to "nodetach," but neither -v nor -V forces chat to send output to stderr. Now I have to do an ifconfig to see my connection. How can I see chat play out on stderr? Howard Arons -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e