Date: 05 Nov 1999 16:04:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp -auto over-dials Message-ID: <86904dhw5w.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Eric Cholet's message of "Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:48:42 %2B0100" References: <01BF278C.17A29960.cholet@logilune.com>
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Eric Cholet <cholet@logilune.com> writes: > Hi, > > I just installed a 3.3 system and have configured ppp in automatic mode > to dial my ISP. The setup works fine, but I find that ppp is dialing out > every few minutes. > > I have stopped sendmail, I have no named running. I have no cron jobs. > > How can I proceed to see what triggers the dialing out? One of those times that ppp has dialed out on you, with no apparent reason, try using sockstat to see the open sockets. Look for a socket whose `FOREIGN ADDRESS' column is not a local interface address of your machine. Then lookup it's COMMAND column to see which program opened this socket. -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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