From petervd@vuurwerk.nl Wed Aug 30 03:10:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: from envy.vuurwerk.nl (envy.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C61B37B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21747 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 10:10:35 -0000 Received: from kesteren.vuurwerk.nl (HELO daemon.vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.59) by envy.vuurwerk.nl with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 10:10:35 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 33113 invoked by uid 11109); Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:10:35 -0000 Message-Id: <967630235.252621.33112.nullmailer@vuurwerk.nl> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:10:35 +0200 From: petervd@vuurwerk.nl Reply-To: petervd@vuurwerk.nl To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: parsing bug in ppp for recent 4.1-STABLE X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 20938 >Category: bin >Synopsis: ppp barfs on tabs in certain places in ppp.conf >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: brian >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 30 03:20:05 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: Wed Aug 30 13:52:31 PDT 2000 >Last-Modified: Wed Aug 30 13:53:20 PDT 2000 >Originator: Peter van Dijk >Release: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 >Organization: Vuurwerk Internet >Environment: kernel and world couple of days old, using very plain ppp.conf base on ppp.conf.sample >Description: The line add default HISADDR # Add a (sticky) default route apparantly triggers some parsing bug in /usr/sbin/ppp. Removing tabs helps. >How-To-Repeat: Add above line (which exists in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf by default after a recent cvsup) to ppp.conf and try to use ppp. It will most probably complain about failing to add a route, and after dialin will not set a default route. >Fix: Workaround: remove tabs (or, just to be sure, everything) after 'HISADDR'. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brian Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 30 03:22:18 PDT 2000 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20938 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: brian State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 30 13:52:31 PDT 2000 State-Changed-Why: Fixed in -stable and -current. Ppp was mistakenly considering the extra whitespace as an extra empty argument http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20938 >Unformatted: