Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:27:06 -0500 (EST) From: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net> To: deo0141@omega.uta.edu (Debuggus Maximus) Cc: questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Needed: PPP Guru Message-ID: <199503291827.NAA10490@hermes.cybernetics.net> In-Reply-To: <199503291710.LAA05840@omega.uta.edu> from "Debuggus Maximus" at Mar 29, 95 11:10:55 am
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What may be going on is as follows: You dial and log in with kermit. You escape out of kermit terminal mode and tell it to quit. -The kernel detects that there are 0 processes with open file descriptors to the modem device, so it toggles a modem control line, signalling the modem to hang up. You then start up ppp, but by that time the damage has been done -- the phone has been hung up. A quick fix would be to suspend the kermit process once you get out of terminal mode (ala control-z), then start up pppd, then kill the suspended kermit -- keeping the device reference count above 1 at all times. James James Robinson <URL http://hermes.cybernetics.net/>; wholly endorses: FreeBSD | Zappa | Tull | Albermarle Ale | XFree86 | Seagull acoustic guitars | <URL http://www.freebsd.org/>; Quotes du Jour: "Little man, I give the watch to you." | "Hail Ants"
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