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Subject: Simple way to kill PPPD
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Automatically:

kill -9 `ps -aux| grep pppd| egrep d\?- | cut -c 9-15`

set it to run automatically, or every minute or whenever you want to kill 
processes.

Still doesn't solve the problem of 100% CPU utilization, but we'll see 
about that.

-Jerry.