Bug 68970

Summary: Wanted: NOPPPWATCH variable for ifcfg-ppp files
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jos Vos <jos>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 8.0CC: rvokal
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Proposed patch (made against initscripts 6.67)
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New patch for initscripts 6.90. none

Description Jos Vos 2002-07-16 16:22:30 UTC 
Proposal:
Support a NOPPPWATCH variable (default no) to enable the possibility of not
starting ppp-watch. This requires a small patch for the ifup-ppp script (also
using pppd's "updetach" option) and a small patch for the ifdown-ppp script
(when looking at pid files etc.).  I'm using own patches now and if you are
interested, I can attach them to this bug (after some more testing).

See also bug #68969 for some background of why I'm asking this.
Comment 1 Jos Vos 2002-07-27 19:24:22 UTC 
Created attachment 67364 [details]
Proposed patch (made against initscripts 6.67)
Comment 2 Jos Vos 2002-07-27 19:28:09 UTC 
The attached patch (for initscripts 6.67) works for me, but probably needs a
review by RH, as I don't know all backgrounds of the current script. The new
feature is enabled by including PPPWATCH=no in the ifcfg-ppp* file. I also
needed to add "> /dev/null" to pppd, as otherwise you get all kind of output
until the process is detached.
Comment 3 Jos Vos 2002-09-02 09:41:56 UTC 
Created attachment 74485 [details]
New patch for initscripts 6.90.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:07:21 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.