On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > It really is empty!! I'll paste in what I did: > > # pwd > /proc/3 > # ls > /usr/bin/color-ls: exe: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/color-ls: root: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/color-ls: cwd: No such file or directory > cmdline environ fd/ mem stat status > cwd@ exe@ maps| root@ statm > # cat /proc/3/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM=' > # cat environ > #
Somehow I doubt the pid of your shell is 3. Type 'echo $$'. Use that number as the pid. > >> Why will the problem go away - what's wrong with using the "-detach" > >> option? > > > >It'll still have a controlling terminal. If you're using a shell > >without job control (sh), it'll be in the same process group as the shell. > > But does this have anything to do with why the process regularly dies? > Surely having a controlling terminal doesn't do any harm? I thought it was dying because of SIGHUPs or something when you exited the shell. If it's dying for some other reason, check /var/adm/messages. I think there's some option you can set in /etc/ppp/options to make it very verbose? Guy