Bug 37098
Summary: | pppd gets spawned multiple times with persistent/demand connections | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Trever Adams <trever> |
Component: | ppp | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | ak |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-08-13 09:25:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Trever Adams
2001-04-22 22:15:10 UTC
I have found additional things. I still do not know if ppp-watch or pppd is at fault. The above directions do not cause the problem. It seems pppd is unkillable, however, ppp-watch seems to see the signal to die and spawns a new pppd. Hence the multiple pppd's. I had reasons for having if-down.local in /etc/ppp kill the pppd (I cannot remember this late at night what they were, it seems it had to do with some other program working right). It is a bug for pppd to ignore the QUIT (I believe that is the default for kill) signal. It is also a bug for pppd to see that signal and assume pppd is dead and restart it without verifying that pppd went away. Two bugs: pppd doesn't respond to the signal mentioned above, and ppp-watch restarts pppd when it shouldn't. I suspect this is a duplicate of bug #39231. There's a patch there, please tell if it fixes your problem. I had a similar issue with ppp-watch. It did not redial when the connection was broken, like it did in RH 6.2. Until a new release of initscripts is released, I simply copied the ppp-watch program from my system backup tape, and replaced the rh 7.1 version. Works like advertised, now. Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now. |