Re: Processes not exiting
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:36, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Russell" == Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
>
> Russell> No I didn't. I spent a heap of time looking at it and
> Russell> couldn't find anything. I'm certain that it's not a
> Russell> configuration issue so I think it's something in the pppd
> Russell> source code. I haven't got into that.
>
> Do you use the -detach parameter?
>
> I seem to remember I once had similar problems when using the -detach
> parameter (to pppd), but this was a long time ago now.
The machine that I am seeing this on has nodetach in use. So it's
probably something different.
For other people seeing the same problem, pppd detaches from the terminal
before it becomes stuck. So
"ps aux | grep pppd | grep -v tty | grep -v grep" will give you a list of
the stuck processes...
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