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.
Created attachment 67364 [details] Proposed patch (made against initscripts 6.67)
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.
Created attachment 74485 [details] New patch for initscripts 6.90.
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.