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Re: Bug or brain-fade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Gleaves)
Fri Nov 1 22:23:07 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:21:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Gleaves <mgleaves@mcs.com>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes, I can--in fact, that's what I did do. I guess my point was that the
Network Configurator tool should have done it for me when I entered a
shell control operator in the initialization string.
Mark
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