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To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
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Subject: Re: init won't HUP 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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.

The -detach option isn't really supported, and almost definitely 
isn't consistent.  Use the -direct flag instead.

The HUP behaviour of ppp has changed twice recently, it currently 
exits, but at one point it would just hang up the line.  This is 
probably the version you've got :-(  If you want to upgrade and don't 
use cvsup/ctm, you can get a working copy from http://www.freebsd.org/
~brian/ppp-2.2-970701.tar.gz.
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