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Re: Help! The pppd from hell has captured my box!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Sun Nov 17 09:35:49 1996

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 09:33:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611170749.QAA16594@mail.sphere.ad.jp>
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There should be a program called ppp-off which will stop your ppp
program. Try it.

Try typing 
 which ppp-off
If it is not found, then proceed as follows.

Type 
 ps | grep pppd

You will see two lines with numbers on the left. The one which does
*not* contain grep is the status line of your pppd daemon. 

To stop the daemon, if the number is, say 119, type

kill -TERM 119.

If this starts up at boot time and you don't want that to happen, use 
control-panel and change the appropriate item.

HTH,

-sen

On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lance Cummings wrote:

> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:49:09 +0900
> From: Lance Cummings <lance@iac.co.jp>
> Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Help!  The pppd from hell has captured my box!
> Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:49:32 -0500
> Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> 
> All I was trying to do was set up my PPP connection.
> 
> I went into the modem configurator and entered the
> phone number, login ID and password.  Now when
> I boot up, the pppd is activated during the boot
> and starts dialing immediately.  I can't stop it.
> How do I put a stop to this -- short of reformatting
> for Windows?  :- 0  The system is unusable with
> a pppd message flashing to the screen every 15
> seconds or so.  And I image some error log is
> consuming my disk, right?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Lance
> 
> 
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