From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 4 06:49:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA25393 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:49:29 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA25384 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:49:12 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10084; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:49:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA07288 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:49:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00756 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:11:55 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507041211.OAA00756@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /etc/rc and "rm -f /var/spool/lock/*" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:11:55 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <28474.804792628@mumps.pfcs.com> from "Harlan Stenn" at Jul 3, 95 01:30:28 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 411 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Harlan Stenn wrote: > > I suspect the real solution, then, will be to file ijppp. > > The problem is that when I start up "ppp -auto", it will almost always > come up with the same PID as the one from the previous boot, so if the Interesting race condition. :( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)