> 
> My continuing saga with NetBSD...
> 
> Background: I have one monitor and two Macs, my Mac II running NetBSD and a
> Q630 running MacOS.  Since I don't have ethernet in the Q630, I keep my
> monitor on the Q630 and connected the two by serial cable and have been
> running PPP quite successfully.  However when I close my PPP session on the
> Q630, pppd quits on the Mac II.  This wasn't too bad until I followed the
> instructions at <http://macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za/xsetup.html> which didn't
> completely work for me (attempts to log in just send me back to the login
> screen, locking me out of the system unless pppd was running), thus I
> needed a way to connect and disconnect from PPP whenever I wanted and keep
> it running.
> 
> Solution: I don't know if this is the most elegant way to do it, but I
> added the following line to /etc/ppp/options
> 
> disconnect /etc/ppp/ppp-restart
> 
> It simply runs a script when ppp disconnects, and the script just launches
> pppd again:

Another option might be to just set /etc/ttys up so that init will always
run a passive-mode pppd on the modem (or printer) port.

> #!/bin/sh
> pppd 2> /var/log/ppp.log &
> 
> Also I still can't make an X connection to NetBSD over my serial PPP with
> eXodus.  My setup is rootless, REXEC, with command 'xterm -ls -display
> $$ME$$'. I get an "Unable to send connection information" error.  When I
> change from REXEC to RSH, I get an "RSH error: login incorrect."  Any ideas?

Are you feeding in a correct user name & password? Is your shell in
/etc/shells?

Take care,

Bill