exit with an appropriate value to indicate what happened

[ppp.git] / pppd / pppd.8

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index bcf2c3a34cbff10af9d632750a3ac05a47169a0c..e7957649d0d0a4d032cd8781983806583a27b84d 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.3
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.3

-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.37 1999/03/23 03:22:34 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.39 1999/04/16 11:34:45 paulus Exp $

 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph


@@ -690,6 +690,12 @@ With this option, pppd will not transmit LCP packets to initiate a
 connection until a valid LCP packet is received from the peer (as for
 the `passive' option with ancient versions of pppd).
 .TP
 connection until a valid LCP packet is received from the peer (as for
 the `passive' option with ancient versions of pppd).
 .TP

+.B sync
+Use synchronous HDLC serial encoding instead of asynchronous.
+The device used by pppd with this option must support synchronous
+serial communications. Currently supports Microgate SyncLink adapters
+under Linux.
+.TP

 .B usehostname
 Enforce the use of the hostname (with domain name appended, if given)
 as the name of the local system for authentication purposes (overrides
 .B usehostname
 Enforce the use of the hostname (with domain name appended, if given)
 as the name of the local system for authentication purposes (overrides


@@ -1072,12 +1078,14 @@ IPCP has come up.
 .B PEERNAME
 The authenticated name of the peer.  This is only set if the peer
 authenticates itself.
 .B PEERNAME
 The authenticated name of the peer.  This is only set if the peer
 authenticates itself.

-.TP

 .B SPEED
 The baud rate of the tty device.
 .TP
 .B ORIG_UID
 The real user-id of the user who invoked pppd.
 .B SPEED
 The baud rate of the tty device.
 .TP
 .B ORIG_UID
 The real user-id of the user who invoked pppd.

+.B PPPLOGNAME
+The username of the real user-id that invoked pppd. This is always set.
+.TP

 .P
 Pppd invokes the following scripts, if they exist.  It is not an error
 if they don't exist.
 .P
 Pppd invokes the following scripts, if they exist.  It is not an error
 if they don't exist.