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From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: PPP -background question: how telnet or terminate?
In-Reply-To: <199711240811.DAA08677@federation.addy.com> from Francisco Reyes at "Nov 24, 97 03:11:22 am"
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> I just tried using ppp in the background (first time). It dialed,
> connected. Everything went fine, but when I tried to look for it to
> terminate it it was not listed by ps. I tried ps -a from both the user
> that started it and from root.
> 
> I tried man ps, but could not find how to list daemons.
> 
> I also tried "telnet localhost 3000" as suggested in "man ppp" and said
> connection refused.
> 
> Did I miss a parameter in ps?

Use `ps -ax' or `ps -aux'

Robert

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