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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
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Subject: Re: init won't HUP
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> OK. I have a line in my /etc/ttys that keeps my ppp connection alive:
> 
> cuaa3   "/usr/sbin/pppd -detach"        unknown on insecure
> 
> And I kill -HUP 1 and it starts running fine. The problem starts when I
> want to turn it off. I tried kill -HUPing it after commenting the line out
> and it will still start over and over again. I even tried removing the line
> altogether and then kill -HUP, still it keeps spawning.

Try changing it to:
cuaa3   "/usr/sbin/pppd -detach"        unknown off insecure
                                                ^^^


Nate