nope,, I just did a ps -A and there is no reference to diald,,
I have pppd and ppp-watch, but no diald (incidently, what is ppp-watch?)
rgds
Frank
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregor Maier
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2001 10:00 PM
To: Franki
Cc: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List
Subject: RE: [expert] strange SIGHUP
Do you have diald running??
Diald will shut down the connection if it's idle some time...
On 06-Aug-2001 Franki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a minor problem in an otherwise perfect system,
>
>
> This is my test box, it has Samba2.2.1a, postfix20010709 and kernel
> 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure
>
>
> all of those are working great, I have amavis working, and file and
printer
> sharing,,,
>
> no problems anywhere except for pppd...
>
> for some strange reason, roughly 30 minutes into a connection, something
> sends pppd a SIGHUP,, and as such it closes the connection,, I can find no
> obvious reason for this, and I was wondering if there is a way to trace
back
> to what sent the SIGHUP..
>
> the log reads as follows.:
>
> pppd Hangup (SIGHUP)
> pppd Modem Hangup
> pppd connection terminated.
> pppd Connect time 32.9 minutes.
> pppd sent xxxx bytes received xxxx bytes
> pppd Exit
>
> Thats all the feedback I am getting..
>
> It seems to do the same with Kppp as it does using scripts with "ipup
ppp0"
>
> So whatever it is, its directly effecting pppd, not the app that invokes
> it...
>
> Anyone got any ideas of what I can do to find out what is killing it? and
> why is it doing it every half hour?
>
> (there was an instance of cron hourly just before the above, but
> /etc/cron-hourly is completely empty, so its not doing anything.) there
> doesn't appear to be any other reference to anything I can find that might
> be causing it...
>
>
> rgds
>
> Frank
>
>
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E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06-Aug-2001
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