From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 22:54:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA03218 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA03188 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from barnowl (apm0-38.realtime.net [205.238.146.38]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA15979 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:54:23 -0600 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:58:26 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: questions freebsd Subject: X triggering ppp to dial Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, Had this leetle problem for a while but have ignored it till now. When X starts the user ppp starts up and hangs the server start, until I get bored waiting and kill the process. (I'm running ppp as a daemon.) I have been starting the X session with startx and xinit. This has gotten a bit irritating because I'm starting to use xdm. When I log off of the session, the whole console is hung up tight. I can press keys and eventually it starts beeping (buffer full, I guess.) The computer and OS are still running, but I have to go to another machine on the lan, telnet in, and rescue the situation (reboot - could also seek out and kill the offending process.) Any clues as to where to look for the solution to this? This is getting into territory where I read the book(s) and type in the examples. Any help appreciated. Thanks, John