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From: Wayne Baety <mrfoine@enteract.com>
To: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>
cc: "'Brian Somers'" <brian@awfulhak.org>,
        Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>,
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Subject: RE: /var/run/natd.pid request 
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Ari Suutari wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 12. kesakuuta 1997 11:41, Wayne Baety [SMTP:mrfoine@enteract.com] wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Well this is what i did a while back and needed the PID of natd....I think
> > it requires procfs for the grepping of /proc thou.... I Just attached all
> > of my cfg files for pppd..etc.  Not sure if this was the best
> > solution....but it worked for me.  Also there is a script to return the
> > pidof of a process by name....for the first match it prints just the PID
> > but any other matches aren't parsed and status information is printed in
> > the whole.....was a nice little script to get the PID of a named process
> > quickly w/o using ps.....since at the time ps was crashing my -current.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 	I browsed through your scripts:
> 
> 	The reason why neither SIGHUP or -dynamic would work
> 	for you is that you use -alias_address option. Dynamic features work
> 	only if you give the name of interface (with -interface) option instead
> 	of using -alias_address.
> 
> 		Ari S.
> 
I used -interface before and it wasnt working.....so I changed to
specifying the alias_address my self and handling IP address changes
myself....via pppd