On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 06:53:03AM +0200, Nikodemus Karlsson wrote:
> Hi all!
> I installed Mandrake 6 for a few days ago. Before I ran Redhat 6. Everthing
> works fine, but I am a little confused over the location of the file that
> contains the pid of pppd. The ifdown script (that I�m used to use for
> terminating a ppp conection) expects that the pid of pppd is located in
> the /var/run directory. According to the pppd manual it should be in Linux. But
> the pid file is located in /etc/ppp. I'm just wondering if it is a bug, or an
> intention with this placement. The easiest way to solve the problem is to make
> a link or copy of the pid file to /var/run, but I did recompile the
> ppp-2.3.7-3mdk.src.rpm whith the right(?) path. I did also upload these rpms to
> the incoming directory of ftp.linux-mandrake.com.
>
> Best, Nikodemus Karlsson
Yep, i have this, too. Took me quite a while to figure it out. Seems to have no
impeding effect though.
tom
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