From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 14:17:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25008 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25002 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24741; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:17:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Krit Witwiyaruj cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: pppd disappeared after client disconnected .. please help In-Reply-To: <01BD3ED6.50F09730.krit@cs.ait.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Krit Witwiyaruj wrote: > Yes, I run it on a serial port, com1. okay. > Do I have to write a script to check and restart it from time to time? > (but I don't like this idea) I hope we can find a way to automatically > restart the daemon after the disconnection. You could run it from /etc/ttys -- if it ever quits, init will restart it. You could also run mgetty if you want to be able to service shell logins too. Mgetty will hear the PAP authentication and forward it along. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message