Re: ppp rcvar

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 13.01.2013 um 13:47 schrieb Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 01:43:37PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> 
>> Am 13.01.2013 um 13:38 schrieb Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 01:34:08PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>>> That is a questionable default.  As if the majority of users would want to 
>>>> start PPP.
>>> 
>>> Currently, we check whether ppp_peers is set. If it is, we start ppp.
>>> I was interested in having ppp_peers set, and not starting PPP at startup,
>>> so new with the patch is the allowed combination ppp=NO ppp_peers="blabla".
>>> 
>>>> Anyways, thanks for removing the warning (aka "console spam" ;)
>>> 
>>> The warning was for the case "I set ppp=YES and nothing happend" "Sure, you
>>> didn't say whom I should phone" (which is a bit superfluous)
>> 
>> Hmm, I think you got me confused.  I read your first mail as if on _every_ 
>> boot, whether with or without PPP I would see that message.  But that seems 
>> not to be the case and when I don't set ppp=YES explicitely, nothing happens 
>> on the console.
> 
> With the patch, ppp=YES is set explicitly in defaults/rc.conf, you would get
> it on every boot => reconfused back you were right...


Aha, so I was right.  Yes, then please don't do that :)