Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:46:42 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: PPP curious behaviours Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980514183218.17067A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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Hi. Since I get my ppp connection up, user ppp is causing me some problems... I already posted some questions about these but got no or answers rather out of range. When I boot up, I get a ppp daemon running in bkgnd. (ppp -auto provider) Now, it's working fine alright, and I can use other comm software until I awake ppp for the first time (via lynx or ftp, or ...). After ppp is awaken, I can't get it to let the line loose. Sometimes it's starting without reasons, sometimes just after I disconnect it, always when I start Pine, not when I use mail, sometimes when I start minicom... (nice little song uuh?:) When I use minicom, ppp tries to connect, and minicom can't do nothing but watch text pass by and ppp shouting. Shouldn't minicom get a lock on the modem or something like this? Pine is another bug. I haven't set it to check mail on the remote (I use fetchmail) specially cause I wanted to read my mail without getting on the phone line... What's causing this? I have a disconnect script to shut up ppp, and it's doing its job. When I use it, I hear the modem hanging up. It looks like this: ------------------------------------------------------ #! /bin/sh # Disconnects from the internet exec /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit exec pppctl /var/run/internet set timeout 300\; close ------------------------------------------------------- I think I've found this in the handbook. The fetchmail stuff is my adding. I got to kill the ppp daemon via top in order to free my phone line. This is extremely bugging, any suggestion is welcome. Thank you!!! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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