From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 9:30:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tor-smtp1.netcom.ca (tor-smtp1.netcom.ca [207.181.101.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971C415438 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlreid@netcom.ca) Received: from netcom.ca (lon-on4-73.netcom.ca [209.146.137.73]) by tor-smtp1.netcom.ca (8.8.7-s-4/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13522 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:30:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38285A29.FA88597D@netcom.ca> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:30:17 -0500 From: David Reid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically X-Priority: 2 (High) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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