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.\"
.TH PPPLCD 8 "15 January 1999"
.SH NAME
ppplcd \- PPP Link Control Daemon
.br
.\"
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ppplcd
[
.B \-v
|
.B \-d
.I level
] [
.B \-nf
]
.I conffile
.br
.B "ppplcd -V"
.br
.\"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This man page documents 
.I ppplcd
version MARKER_PATCHLEVEL.
.PP
.I Ppplcd
is a fast 
.I pppd\fR(8)
controller. Its main areas of control are chat script compilation, link
quality and idle timeout monitoring, post-connect processing. These functions
are implemented by external scripts, the exact contents of which is
site-specific, although examples are included in the distribution.
.br
.ne 5
.SH OPTIONS
.\"  This indents everything after the next line by 25 somethings.
.TP 25
.B \-V
Print the version number and exit.
.TP
.B \-v
Sets the verbosity level to 3.
.TP
.B \-d \fIlevel
Sets the verbosity level to 
.I level\fR.
.TP
.B \-nf
.I ppplcd
does not fork, running in the foreground and logging all messages to
standard error instead of via 
.I syslogd\fR(8).
.PD
.br
.ne 5
.SH EXAMPLES
The following command is how 
.I ppplcd
should be executed from 
.I init\fR(8)
scripts:
.IP
MARKER_LCLSBINDIR/ppplcd MARKER_PRGCFGDIR/ppplcd.conf
.br
.ne 5
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP 25
MARKER_PRGCFGDIR/ppplcd.conf
default configuration file
.PD
.br
.ne 5
.SH ENVIRONENT VARIABLES
None.
.br 
.ne 5
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
No diagnostic messages are so cryptic that they need to be explained here.
.br
.ne 5
.SH CAVEATS
.I Ppplcd
does not support multiple ISPs yet.
.br
.ne 5
.SH SEE ALSO
sndmsg(8), ppplcc(1), ppplcd.conf(5)
.br
.ne 5
.SH AUTHOR
Alexis Huxley
.br
.ne 5
.SH BUGS
If
.I ppplcd
is killed and restarted,
for instance with
.I ppplcc\fR(1)'s
.B K
and 
.B S
commands,
and 
.I pppd\fR(8)
was maintaining a connection at the time,
although the connection is not broken,
.I ppplcd
fails to determine this state correctly.
.PP
Bug reports and queries should be reported to
.B ppplc-support@@danae.demon.co.uk\fR.
.PP
For the latest release of
.I ppplc\fR,
visit
.B http://www.danae.demon.co.uk/software/ppplc/\fR.
.br
.ne 5
.SH COPYRIGHT & DISTRIBUTION POLICY
Copyright (C) 1996-1998 Alexis Huxley
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
.PP
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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.\"    PPPLCD.8 - Manual Page for ppplcd Command
.\"    Copyright (C) 1998 Alexis Huxley <alexis@@danae.demon.co.uk>
.\"
.\"    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\"    (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"    GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\"    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
.\"
.\"    $Id: ppplcd.8.shpp,v 1.3 1998/08/28 13:52:18 alexis Exp alexis $
.\"
.PP
This page is under development. If there is any information in it at
all, it is probably wrong. Please refer to the installation documentation
in PRGDOCDIR_MARKER.
.PP
.TH PPPLCD 8 "2 March 1998"
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Ppplcd \- PPP Link Control Daemon
a12 2
.B "ppplcd -V"
.br
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.I msgid \fR\.\.\.
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version PATCHLEVEL_MARKER.
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is a ....
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None.
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None.
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None.
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a98 1
sndmsg(8), ppplcc(1)
d102 1
a102 5
Alexis Huxley <alexis@@danae.demon.co.uk>
.br
.ne 5
.SH STATUS
Stable.
d106 23
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No known bugs.
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Copyright (C) 1996-1998 Alexis Huxley <alexis@@danae.demon.co.uk>
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