I'm lazy. In x I have root-tail running . But I doubt if this is what you are talking about :-) I know the slakware program ppp-setup does this ---as well...pipes a verbose type log unto the screen that pipes the process to the screen...and shows the dynamic ip assignment. Maybe try this program?? I'd be interested to see what answers you get. -----Original Message----- From: Howard Arons <hlarons@ComCAT.COM> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 12:01 PM Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Chat & pppd in 5.2 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 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e