On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Allan 'Norm' Crain wrote:

> How do I get netbsd to automagically run pppd on boot? I stuck
> /usr/sbin/pppd into /etc/netstart, which works, but only when it's already
> up and running. When it's booting, it seems to simply ignore it... Anyone
> have any clues?

Well, I didn't put it in /etc/netstart - instead, I added the following 
to my /etc/rc.local (in the "starting local daemons" section):

#
# Finally, start up the ppp daemon
#
if [ -f /etc/ppp/ppp-start ]; then
	echo -n ' pppd'; /etc/ppp/ppp-start
fi
#
echo '.'