On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:49 am, robin wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 > > > > robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Len Lawrence wrote: > >>>On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the > >>> hope that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 > >>> every couple of days; pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the > >>> machine. > >> > >>Are you sure that isn't just a kpppd-pid file not getting killed? > > > > Might be something like that. I am using gnome-ppp but the same thing > > occurred with kppp. Not sure where to look but will search for a pid > > file. If this is the cause the question is then "why?". > > It's probably somewhere like $HOME/.gnome/gnome-ppp/gnome-ppp-pid - just > a guess by analogy with kppp. > > I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it's worth checking out. > > Sir Robin might be the lock file that is an option in kppp.
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