Ok I am suppose to use the ppp-up command to initiate the ppp dialup.  My
error says something about the bad flag  being something related to 'P'.

The script that I am using is 

#!/bin/sh
# ppp-up - start pppd
#
PPPDIR=/etc/ppp
NUMBERLIST=$PPPDIR/ppp-numbers
LOGIN=$PPPDIR/ppp-login
CHATSCRIPT=$PPPDIR/ppp-chat
CONNECT=$PPPDIR/ppp-connect
#
# To change this file to work w/ tty01, just change all the tty00's
# to tty01's in this file (two immediately below, one on the pppd line)
# and in the ppp-down script.
#
if [ -f /var/spool/lock/LCK..tty00 ]; then
  p=`cat /var/spool/lock/LCK..tty00`
else
  p=""
fi
#
if [ -n "$p" ]; then
  echo -n pppd is already running...
else
  echo -n starting the pppd daemon...
  pppd /dev/tty00 38400 connect "$CONNECT $NUMBERLIST $LOGIN $CHATSCRIPT"
fi
echo done

Any one with any ideas?

Paul

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > 
> > New info, I went into the /etc/ppp/connect-errors and it said
> > 
> > sed: 1: /etc/ppp/ppp-login: bad flag in substitute command: 'P'
> > 
> > what does this mean???
> 
> Probably that you have corrupted files.
> 
> Check how your phone numbers are entered in the ppp-numbers file, and how your
> account info is entered in ppp-login. The latter should be something like
> 
> s/\$LOGIN/googoo/g
> s/\$PASSWD/dolls/g
> 
> where googoo is your account name, and dolls is your password.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
>