On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Filippo Carletti wrote:
> I have a small remote access server built on RedHat 5.2 with kernel
> 2.2.9 and all the updates. pppd was 2.3.7-2, I have just installed
> 2.3.8-1.
> Sometimes, the file /var/run/pppn.pid (where n is ppp device number) is
> missing, it happens only 3 or 4 times a day.
> There isn't a complete bug-fix change-log in the archive, so I'm asking
> if, hopefully, ppp-2.3.8-1 already fixed this or, at least, someone else
> found my same problem (and has a solution).
pppd doesn't create the pid file directly. The pid file is created by the
script that starts pppd. In RedHat, the default script that creates the
pid file is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp. If you bypass the
scripts, no pid file will be created.
Geof Goodrum
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