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Re: Bug or brain-fade?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Fri Nov 1 22:07:10 1996

Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:05:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Mark Gleaves wrote:

> I'm talking about the settings in the script
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 .  This gets called in ifup
> (this filename is passed as the first parameter to ifup, in order to tell
> it that the ppp interface should be brought up).  Because the ampersand
> isn't escaped, a command like INITSTRING=AT&F1 causes problems.

My $INITSTRING, as installed, is just "ATZ".  Can you get around the 
problem by single-quoting?

Kyle


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