Not Another AutoPPP question

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Hi,

Alex Garner wrote:
> At 17:35 6/07/98 , Gert Doering wrote:
> >Replace the "@" in the AutoPPP line in login.config with a "-".  You don't
> >want "/AutoPPP/" to be put into the utmp/wtmp files.
> 
> I just remebered why I didn't do this before. Have a look at what mgetty
> gets...
> 
> Jul  7 08:31:03 vodka mgetty[5954]: data dev=ttyE13, pid=5954,
> caller='none', conn='31200', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/Au
> toPPP/'
> Jul  7 08:31:03 vodka pppd[5954]: pppd 2.3.3 started by LOGIN, uid 0
> Jul  7 08:31:03 vodka pppd[5954]: Using interface ppp3
> 
> It says 'started by LOGIN', and furthermore 'w' or 'who' shows nothing at
> all now!

Hmmm.  No idea why it says *that* (might be related to the way utmp is set
up - try without the "@"!).  check the pppd sources...

> I should point out that 'last' works fine so one could assume that there is
> a problem with utmp only. Either pppd is broken and I'll need to try a
> later version, or mgetty and pppd can't agree on the format of utmp data.
> 
> Any ideas?

Maybe, yes.

gert
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