[NTLUG:Discuss] Magically appearing pppd parameters. *SOLVED*

[Richard Geoffrion]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:

>Problem:  pppd gets "unrecognized option '--' " passed to it when being 
>called from agetty.
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I'm gonna snip the rest of this.  Hopefully any poor soul searching for 
this answer will find it as a reply in the archives.

OK...here was the final work-around / solution.

The GettyArgs in use is: 
GettyArgs:      "-n -l /etc/ppp/run %l %s"
with (-n) no login prompt, (-l) execute /etc/ppp/run as the login 
program with (%l) tty passed from faxgetty and (%s) baudrate passed from 
faxgetty


the /etc/ppp/run file consists of two magical lines.

   #!/bin/sh
   /usr/sbin/pppd

And that is it!

Many thanks to  " /dev/rob0 "   for his assistance in this..and 
ultimately suggesting and correcting the /etc/ppp/run file.

Question:  Why DID the #!/bin/sh line have to be in the file so the 
script would run?

-- 
Richard