Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:26:13 +0000 From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init won't HUP Message-ID: <33C66CB5.41C67EA6@tri-lakes.net> References: <199401012033.PAA05874@limbo.senate.org>
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Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > 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. I had the same problem when setting up HylaFAX and trying to put faxgetty in /etc/ttys. I ended up finally not messing with ttys and putting it in rc.local along with faxq, but i tried everything you did.. Remove the line, HUP init, kill faxgetty... HUP init AGAIN.. kill faxgetty AGAIN... all to no avail. Finally rebooted and it never popped up again.
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