<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The pppd debug and file option_file options</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux PPP HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Automating your connections - Creating the connection scripts" HREF="automate.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="A chat script for PAP/CHAP authenticated connections" HREF="x1285.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Testing your connection script" HREF="c1303.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="http://www.linuxports.com/howto/ppp" TARGET="_top" >Linux PPP HOWTO</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1285.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 18. Automating your connections - Creating the connection scripts</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c1303.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1290">18.6. The pppd <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >debug</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >file option_file</TT > options</H1 ><P >As we have already seen, you can turn on debug information logging with the -d option to pppd. The 'debug' option is equivalent to this.</P ><P >As we are establishing a new connection with a new script, leave in the debug option for now. (Warning: if your disk space is tight, logging pppd exchanges can rapidly extend your syslog file and run you into trouble - but to do this you must fail to connect and keep on trying for quite a few minutes).</P ><P >Once you are happy that all is working properly, then you can remove this option.</P ><P >If you have called your ppp options file anything other than <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >/etc/ppp/options</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >/etc/ppp/options.ttySx</TT >, specify the file name with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >file</TT > option to pppd - e.g.</P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug file options.myserver /dev/ttyS0 38400 \</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1285.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c1303.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >A chat script for PAP/CHAP authenticated connections</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="automate.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Testing your connection script</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >