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  From: Benjamin Close <benjsc@senet.com.au>
  To  : Darryl Ross <darryl@bachblue.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:21:27 +1030

Re: Damn Puters!

Darryl Ross wrote:

<SNIP>

> pp:3:respawn:/usr/sbin/ppp-on
>
> to the /etc/inittab, but when I do that, it starts to dial, then says
> that device pp is respawning to fast and has been disabled for 5
>

<SNIP>

If you want it to dial then there is no need to put it in inittab. Put it
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local instead.
This gets run only once unlike the listings in /etc/initab which respawn -
as you found out :)

Cheers,

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