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>28.7. Setting up the global alias for pppd</A
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>In order to simplify things for our dial up PPP users, we create a
global alias (in /etc/bashrc) so that one simple command will start ppp
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>alias ppp="exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach"</PRE
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>exec : this means replace the running program (in this case the
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>pppd -detach : start up pppd and do NOT fork into the background.
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>When a user logs in like this, they will appear in the output of 'w' as...
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> 6:24pm up 3 days, 7:00, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
hartr ttyC0 3:05am 9:14 -</PRE
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>And that is it...I told you this was a simple, basic PPP server system!</P
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