Hi, I ama a relative newbie to linux. I have a RH 6.something server running which has worked for quite a while - started playing around with rh7 on a spare machine and this is the problem: I need to set up a dial out line to the isp on a persistent basis. Normally one would think that if you bring the conn down with ifdown ppp1 then it should not redial. Mine redials almost immediately - if you run ifdown ppp1 in quick succession a few time (5-6) it eventually gets killed. The rh7 scripts seem to be quite different and have a new beast called the ppp-watch. For some reason this or pppd or wvdial restart the process quicker than it can be killed. I've tried setting wvdial.conf auto redial=off; used the pppd option "holdoff 30" and tried the linuxconf configuration parameter disconnect delay to 25 seconds. If poss I'd like to stick with linuxconf or rh7 scripts because it makes it easy to remember if the setup needs to be redone. A workaround seems to be to add a couple of lines of kill -9 `cat /proc/run/pppwatch-ppp1.pid` in a script just after the ifdown. If anyone can help I would be most grateful. San [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
