Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:58:06 -0700 From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: user ppp Message-ID: <3239F50E.D6D@alaska.net> References: <199609111808.SAA29287@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
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> > i'm hacking user-ppp and i crash it alot ... how can i flush ppp > > from my system when it's running as a daemon? i'd like to restart > > ppp as a daemon after i crash it. flush, like in "down the toilet", like "gone", "history", "fin". like - now i'm free and clear to restart it! :) > I'm not sure what flush means in this context, but I think you want to > kill the /usr/sbin/ppp daemon process and then restart it, right? > ppp -auto <whatever> -i- don't see a PID for PPP when started as a daemon (-auto) are you sure ? actually, httpd doesn't show either. i don't believe daemons have PIDs ... i'd like to know why daemons are special, ie, why can't they be binaries that can be started & stopped like any other process? please forgive me if i'm being ignorant!
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