From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 19 16:36:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18990 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:36:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18985 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:36:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA11990; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:36:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:36:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppp In-Reply-To: <199512191414.JAA27171@robin.mcnc.org.mcnc.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers wrote: > This is bogus. The phone lines to my house are so crappy that I regularly > have to kill ijppp and restart it. I don't want to have to kill all the X > stuff as well, before I restart PPP. Running ijppp and X has been a > crap shoot. About 1/4 the time, killing ppp locks up the system. > > What's the problem and why can't we fix it? do you have "delete ALL" in your /etc/ppp/ppp.{linkup,conf} this seems to be an X killer. every night i start ppp with "ppp -auto foobar". before sleep i kill ppp with kill -9. X and my machine have been up for 10 days. X never gets hammered. the man page stinks to high heaven. someone needs to read the code and write a new manpage detailing all the gotchas. a blank line in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf serves as a null label jmb > Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG