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Re: power outage - ADSL



On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:

> The only solution I found was to re-boot the Linux box. I'm sure there must
> have been a better way, but I couldn't find it.

arrgh, rebooting a linux box is never the answer... as a mater of fact,
when you have a serious problem, rebooting can make it worse, in the sense
that before you reboot you at least have some access to your box, but
after you reboot, it might not even come up.

what you should've done was strace pptp or read the source, you would've
found out that due to the power outage, it left behind a unix domain
socket at /var/run/pptp/10.0.138. when you ran it again it found
this, refused to recreate it and exited.

simply doing 'rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138' would've solved your
problem. rebooting is the windows way, folks.
 --
mulix
http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix

linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead


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