Thanks for your help. >> When bash is the login shell for a user, it >> seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console. >> But when I changed my shell to tcsh, TERM no longer gets set to linux >> as it should. Why? > >Perhaps your .tcshrc or .cshrc is messing with it.
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? >> # pppd -d -detach /dev/cua1 & > >Use "ppd -d /dev/cua1" instead, and your program will go away. "program" or do you mean "problem"? My problem is that this process keeps on terminating prematurely. I get a message saying the job is finished even though I haven't told it to finish and even though the modem link hasn't been broken. I thought that all the "-detach" option did was to stop the pppd process from detaching itself from the terminal I ran it from. I don't understand why this would solve my 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? 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.) Thanks again for your help - I appreciate it. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])