From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 14 13:39:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB00E37B529; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA29050; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:38:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01656; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:38:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200008142038.VAA01656@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: andrew@grillet98.freeserve.co.uk Cc: brian@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/19366: PPP keeps redialling when no tcp/ip traffic In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew Grillet of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:42:15 BST." <394FACF7.CE857535@grillet98.screaming.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:38:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, any update on this Andrew ? > Hi Brian, > > brian@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > > Synopsis: PPP keeps redialling when no tcp/ip traffic > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > > State-Changed-By: brian > > State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 20 04:23:24 PDT 2000 > > State-Changed-Why: > > : >Number: 19366 > > : >Category: bin > > : >Synopsis: PPP keeps redialling when no tcp/ip traffic > > [.....] > > : Also, I suspect ppp does not honour cuaaX..LCK files as claimed. > > : I have written routines to set and clear lock files, and ppp > > : appears to use the modem in spite of the lock. > > [.....] > > : The problem remains to check whether port locking is working > > : correctly. It wasn't before. > > > > Do your routines use the uucplock(3) routines in libutil ? > > Yes they do. Assuming they actually work correctly, I was planning to > prepare them for inclusion in the FreeBSD distrib. The idea being that > they > allow the port to be locked from cron. I am pretty sure, they work > correctly > with mgetty. > > They are cosmetically dreadful and not ready for prime time at present! > > > If so, > > there should be no problems. Please provide more details about the > > problem - include any relevant sample programs. > > I will try to find time to do a meaningful test. I have ppp controled by > cron killing it via killall, and restarting it, but i regard that as > inelegant. Maybe my taste is poor. It works! > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19366 > Regards > > Andrew -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message