Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)

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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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Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)

[Len Lawrence]

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?".  

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