From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 14:15:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEBE14E28 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (solaris.puebla.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA72644; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:15:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <005b01bf2c92$0f220b80$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "David Reid" , References: <38285A29.FA88597D@netcom.ca> Subject: RE: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:14:01 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Maybe some of your process needs network connectivity, and they fired up the ppp process, it could be a dns recursion, it could be an e-mail in the queue, it could be an xntpd thing, it could be a routed thing, it could be... , lots of thing could fire up your ppp connection, take a look at your system, and find out what did really fired up your connection. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: David Reid To: Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically > I am running freeBSD 3.2 and using the ppp provided with > that release to access the internet. It works great but > last night I had something strange happen. I sometimes have > to share my phone line with another PC so I had to kill off > my ppp which did happen according to the log files. I have > it set up in -auto mode so that as long as the ppp process > is active and it sees an attempt to access an external > network, it will automatically dial. By killing the > process, I figured I had stopped this for the time I was > borrowing the dial line for my other PC. However, while > working from my other PC, I noticed the modem for my ppp > connection was repeatedly dialing (it was failing as I had > actually physically moved the phone line to another modem). > In any case, when I checked the log files later, I found > that the ppp process had been started up by root. I did NOT > do this, and there is no cron that would do this. It was > also started using the exact parameters I had previously > used (they are not default values). My startup looks like: > ppp -auto dial-default > > Here is the output from the log file showing the kill of ppp > and the startup. > > Nov 8 22:59:17 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: bundle: Dead > Nov 8 22:59:57 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: Signal 15, > terminate. > Nov 8 22:59:57 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: PPP Terminated > (normal). > Nov 9 02:00:00 susie ppp[43088]: Phase: Using interface: > tun0 > Nov 9 02:00:00 susie ppp[43088]: Phase: deflink: Created in > closed state > Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43088]: Warning: set log local: > Only available on the command line > Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43088]: Warning: set log: Failed 1 > > Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: PPP Started (auto > mode). > Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: bundle: Establish > Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: deflink: closed -> > opening > Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: deflink: Connected! > > I figured that it would auto dial when required but I didn't > think it would actually auto start - or atleast not without > me doing something in cron, etc. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is somewhat of > a concern for me. I don't really want ppp firing up when I > think I have terminated the process, and all connectivity to > the internet. > > Please include a response to my email address as I'm not > sure whether the response to this ends up on a mailing list > and if so, which one. > > Thanks, > > David Reid > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message