On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, xiamin wrote:
> i put this in /etc/ppp/ip-up:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q2m
> but when i start pppd i get this:
> Apr 15 15:46:05 crispy pppd[2473]: Can't execute /etc/ppp/ip-up: Exec 
> format error
> how does this look for permissions:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Apr 14 22:42 /etc/ppp/ip-up*

Hmm... try inserting this line at the top of the ip-up file:
#!/bin/sh

> it doesnt start sendmail...
> btw i will also soon start doing 'sendmail -bd -q2m', do i need to chage 
> my sendmail.cf or anyother files for this?

I dunno about sendmail... are you planning on having mail going directly
to your machine? If you have a static IP address and a real hostname,
things work just fine, but if your address and hostname change, it
probably won't work right without some extra configuration. Last time I
tried, whenever mail came in, it bounced back with some sort of mail
configuration error ("mail loops back to myself" or something like that). 
Apparently, it wasn't happy that the address in the To: header was
something like khym@max1-239.aip.bga.com, but my hostname was set to
spiff.metonymy.com. Sendmail wanted to forward the mail onto max1-239, but
after looking it up, it turned out to be its own address or something.
Anyways, I never figured out what to do :)

Name: Dave Huang     |   Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
INet: khym@bga.com   |   they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
FurryMUCK: Dahan     |   dolphin and dog / koala bear and hog -- TMBG
Dahan: Hani G Y+C 21 Y++ L+++ W- C++ T++ A+ E+ S++ V++ F- Q+++ P+ B+ PA+ PL++