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.TH PON 1 "July 2000" "Debian Project" "Debian PPPD"
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pon, poff, plog \- starts up, shuts down or lists the log of PPP connections
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[ isp-name [ options ] ]
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[ -r ] [ -d ] [ -c ] [ -a ] [ -h ] [ isp-name ]
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This manual page describes the \fBpon\fP, \fBplog\fP and \fBpoff\fP
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scripts, which allow users to control PPP connections.
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\fBpon\fP, invoked without arguments, runs the \fI/etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot\fP
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file, if it exists and is executable. Otherwise, a PPP connection will be
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started using configuration from \fI/etc/ppp/peers/provider\fP.
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This is the default behaviour unless an \fBisp-name\fP argument is given.
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For instance, to use ISP configuration "myisp" run:
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\fBpon\fP will then use the options file \fI/etc/ppp/peers/myisp\fP.
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You can pass additional \fBoptions\fP after the ISP name, too.
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\fBpon\fP can be used to run multiple, simultaneous PPP connections.
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\fBpoff\fP closes a PPP connection. If more than one PPP connection exists,
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the one named in the argument to \fBpoff\fP will be killed, e.g.
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will terminate the connection to myprovider2, and leave the PPP connections
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to e.g. "myprovider1" or "myprovider3" up and running.
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\fBpoff\fP takes the following command line options:
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causes the connection to be redialed after it is dropped.
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toggles the state of pppd's debug option.
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to renegotiate compression.
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stops all running ppp connections. If the argument \fBisp-name\fP
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is given it will be ignored.
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displays help information.
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prints the version and exits.
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If no argument is given, \fBpoff\fP will stop or signal pppd if and only
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if there is exactly one running. If more than one connection is active,
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it will exit with an error code of 1.
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\fBplog\fP shows you the last few lines of \fI/var/log/ppp.log\fP. If that
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file doesn't exist, it shows you the last few lines of your
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\fI/var/log/syslog\fP file, but excluding the lines not generated by pppd.
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This script makes use of the
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command, so arguments that can be passed to
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can also be passed to \fBplog\fP.
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Note: the \fBplog\fP script can only be used by root or another system
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administrator in group "adm", due to security reasons. Also, to have all
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pppd-generated information in one logfile, that plog can show, you need the
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following line in your \fI/etc/syslog.conf\fP file:
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local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log
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PPPd system options file.
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.I /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
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System PAP passwords file.
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.I /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
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System CHAP passwords file.
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Directory holding the peer options files. The default file is called
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.I /etc/chatscripts/provider
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The chat script invoked from the default \fI/etc/ppp/peers/provider\fP.
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The default PPP log file.
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The p-commands were written by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>.
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Updated and revised by Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>.
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This manual was written by Othmar Pasteka <othmar@tron.at>. Modified
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by Rob Levin <lilo@openprojects.net>, with some extensions taken from
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the old p-commands manual written by John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>.
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