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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
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.
let us know,
Peter