I'm even lazier, so I've just been using 'poff'
Could fetchmail, etc be killing the pid when it aborts?
Goodnight, Chet!
David
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Subject: Re: ppp working
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>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
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> > I can't find any variant of account name that produced any
> > successful/different result, so I am posting the question to msn, which
> > provided the account name styling in the first place. Their policy is
> to
> > reply within 24 hours
> >
> > Lawson, yes, I had failed to chmod 755 /etc/ppp/ppp-off. However when I
> > cleaned that up, I got:
> >
> > /etc/ppp/ppp-off: kill: cat /var/run/ppp0.pid: no such pid
> >
> > However there is just such a file in that directory
> >
> > David
> >
> Sure there is. The message didn't say "no such file", it said,
> "no such pid". I think it's dead.
>
> I bet something had already killed it with a -KILL signal, so it
> couldn't clean up after itself and remove its pid file.
>
> Maybe I am lazy, but if you only run 1 pppd,
>
> killall -HUP pppd
>
> works fine. this is not necessarily portable to other unices.
>
> Lawson
>
> "Good night, David." - Chet Huntley
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