Re: ppp interface not being dropped

David (david@killerlabs.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:49:19 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Andy Carlson wrote:
> I had a problem, somewhere aroudn 2.1.125, where my ppp interface would
> not go away. This was a problem on my one machine, where I had it
> dialing in once an hour to set the time. The answer was, that I had
> been using kill -9 to stop it, but by reading the manpage for pppd, I
> found that I should be using kill -2. Hope this helps.

correct. reading the man page will provide you with both forms of proper
signaling for SIGINT/SIGTERM and SIGHUP.

-d

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