Problems with pppd

[Stefan Saliba]

My problem is this. I have a linux box which I use to connect to an ADSL connection and I also have a ppp dial-in account on the same machine.

So when the ADSL connection is up and a ppp dial-in account user is logged in I have 2 instances of pppd running.

My problem is this. When a dial-up user tries to disconnect he will manage but it will leave the pppd deamon still running and does not re-spawn the mgetty process and hence no user will login again. The interface goes down but pppd stays up. I will need to kill it manually.

Anyone knows why this happens ?

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
You have to put this line in bash.profile of the dialin user's home directory.
exec /usr/sbin/pppd
Then this problem will not occur.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Stefan Saliba]

I am using mgetty's AUTOPPP and the ppp daemon is spwaned by mgetty