Subject: Re: Problems with ppp for gateway
To: Paul Ascoli <patriot@primenet.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/14/1998 11:47:24
>
> THe problem goes further then that. I have an account with Primenet and
> when you login via ppp you have to have pri/Ppatriot in the login field.
> I wonder if that is causing a problem. I have my login script saying
> s/\$LOGIN/pri/Plogin/g
> s/\$PASSWD/password/g
> with "login" being my real login and the password being my real password
> (didn't want to send them out to everybody ;P
>
> Anyone with any ideas?
I thought I mentioned this in the notes, but I don't seem to.
Change the s/ / /g stuff to
s| | |g .
The fact that there's a "/" in the login field means that you can't use it
as a seperator in the replacement command. Use any character not in either
word, and you're fine.
Take care,
Bill