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Re: pppd freeze?



> Sounds like a lock problem. pppd locks by uucp-style lock file among other
> things. It's possible that that does it. Never happened to me, I always
Nope, it wasn't

> shutdown the machines by crontab once every 24 hours (because I'm not
> curious to find the kind of bug you have just found, Stas). One can also
> say that I'm paranoid about these things, or that I know too much about
> the 'quality' of PC hardware, but then I never find those bugs either <G>.
> The other reason can be your modem. Try to fire up minicom when pppd
> fails. Then try pppd again. It is possible that the modem config needs to
> be reset after a few hundred hours. Most modem pools have a facility to
> reset each modem after a certain time if it is not in use.

I tried this too, I fired 'seyon' it worked OK, then tried pppd again ,
nothing happened

I'll keep looking into the problem when it returns...

Thanks


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