On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Richard Adams wrote about, Re: Help.. Logs filling..:
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Help.. Logs filling..:
> > I am starting to get this in my /var/log/messages :
> > Jun 5 16:25:57 mr_bumpy ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem at
> > 115200
> > Jun 5 16:25:57 mr_bumpy pppd[17678]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
> > Jun 5 16:25:57 mr_bumpy pppd[17678]: Device modem is locked by pid 19937
> > Jun 5 16:25:57 mr_bumpy pppd[17678]: Exit.
> >
> > It runs forever and never stops.. why is it doing it? does it have anything
> > to do with this crontab? :
>
> >
> > # Ping for conectivity
> > 01 1 * * * ping -c1 203.57.130.34 || /sbin/ifdown ppp1 && /sbin/ifup ppp1
> >
> > The line above this one I think is the culprit.. But I don't understand why
> > it never stops.. what am I missing?
>
> That does not look right at all. On most systems using PPP one would have a
> PPP0 interface, the commands above try to stop PPP1 and restart PPP1.
> As to it causing a loop i cant say, but the log messages suggest that the
> modem is in use as it is locked.
> What happens when you comment the crontab job out.???
>
> Comment it out and send a -HUP signal to the crond process, otherwise the
> changes might not take effect strait away.
>
>
> >
> > Any help would be great thanks..
> > Marcus
> >
>
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> Regards Richard
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