On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 12:54:00PM -0400, Geof Goodrum wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Filippo Carletti wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > but I think you are confusing pppn.pid with ppp-pppn.dev which is RedHat
> > specific and is created by network-scripts/ifup-ppp. pppd man page
> > mentions briefly /var/run/pppn.pid.
>
Are you sure? I'm running RH6, but don't use any of their scripts and I
have both *pid and *dev. Just curious how the *dev is being created if
not by pppd.
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