Re: (PPP and diald) Question about startup files
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> writes:
Richard> Michael Meskes writes:
>> I would like to know why packages like diald or ppp doe have a kill and a
>> start entry in /etc/rc2.d?
>>
>> 157) ls -l /etc/rc2.d/*ppp
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 9 11:04 /etc/rc2.d/K20ppp ->
>> ../init.d/ppp
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 9 11:04 /etc/rc2.d/S20ppp ->
>> ../init.d/ppp
Richard> IMHO putting diald there is fairly reasonable - however it's not
Richard> obvious to me that ppp is something the majority of those who install
Richard> it will want to be run at startup. (I've removed the ppp links on my
Richard> home system and just have the ones for diald.)
Richard> In areas with cheaper phone calls it might be more reasonable to
Richard> having ppp running all the time though - perhaps ppp.postinst should
Richard> ask about this?
Like many other scripts the /etc/init.d/ppp script has a switch at the
start to that must be set in order get it to invoke pppd. Having the
links inplace will not cause ppp to start if you dont set this switch.
If you want to start pppd by hand then you could copy and edit
/etc/init.d/ppp into say /usr/local/sbin/ppp-start leaving the links
and init.d scripts alone.
alvar
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