77 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
77 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
.\" $Id:$
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.Dd 26 June 1997
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.Os FreeBSD
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.Dt PPPCTL 8
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pppctl
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.Nd
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PPP control program
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl v
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.Op Fl t Ar n
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.Op Fl p Ar passwd
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.Ar Port | LocalSocket
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.Ar command
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.Op Ar ;command
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.Ar ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This program provides command line control of the
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.Nm ppp
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daemon. Its primary use is to facilitate simple scripts that
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control a running daemon.
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.Nm Pppctl
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expects at least two arguments. The first is interpreted as the
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socket on which the
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.Nm ppp
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daemon is listening. If the socket contains a leading '/', it
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is taken as an AF_LOCAL socket. If it consists entirely of numbers,
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it is interpreted as a TCP port number on localhost. If it contains
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any characters, the first of which is not a '/' character, it is
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interpreted as an entry of type "tcp" from
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.Pa /etc/services .
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All remaining arguments are concatenated to form the command(s) that
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will be sent to the
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.Nm ppp
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daemon. If any semi-colon characters are found, they are treated
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as command delimiters, allowing more than one command in a given
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"session". For example;
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pppctl 3000 set timeout 300\\; show timeout
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Don't forget to escape or quote the ';' as it is a special character
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for most shells.
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The following command line options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl v
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Display all data sent to and received from the
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.Nm ppp
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daemon. Normally,
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.Nm pppctl
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displays only non-prompt lines received.
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.It Fl t Ar n
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Use a timeout of
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.Ar n
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instead of the default 2 seconds. This may be required if you
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wish to control a daemon over a slow (or even a dialup) link.
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.It Fl p Ar passwd
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Specify the password required by the
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.Nm ppp
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daemon. If this switch is not used,
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.Nm
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will prompt for a password once it has successfully connected to
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.Nm ppp
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(assuming, of course, that one is required).
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ppp 8 ,
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.Xr services 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.5.
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