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Re: pppd freeze?
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Something strange happens to my linux box last time and I don't like it!
>
> I use pppd to dialin, it works OK. Then after a few (10-15) days online,
> pppd suddenly freezes when I try to call it (just does nothing no errors,
> no logs) with /usr/sbin/pppd or from script
>
> Let's say I connect OK , disconnect , then xlock the screen, come back
> in half a day , unxlock try to connect but nothing happens?
try removing the lock of the modem , if you kill -9 your pppd (or
killall)
ie ... rm /var/lock/LCK..ttyS?
(debian place, if you use something else it my be somewhere else)
>
> The only thing to fix it was to reboot, and that is not the way it should
> be.
>
> The strange thing is that I do nothing between 2 calls and still it
> happens.
>
> Any hunches?
>
> Thanks
>
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