* Kingsly John [linux-india] <24/04/01 13:16 +0530>:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> |On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kingsly John wrote:
> |
> |> But it renders one Xterm useless! any ways to run it in quiet mode in the
> |> background ??
> |
> |how about wvdial &>wvdial_log.
Make that
# wvdial >& wvdial.log&
> yeah found that in the docs... the man page didn't have any info on that!
> (BTW the wvdial team refers to the thing hogging the term and exiting on
> Ctrl-C as a feature!)
It is a great way - but I prefer to have wvdial running in the foreground.
If the connection freezes / goes slow suddenly it is easier to kill it with
a control C.
> One more thing.... how do you prevent it from setting DNS values ?
That is /etc/ppp/options - you might have something like usepeerdns there.
Unset it.
> I hate proggies editing file in the etc directory! and this thing edits
> the pap-secrets file and resolv.conf files all the time.
It adds any new accounts to pap-secrets. Doesnt normally touch resolv.conf
-s
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