How is pppd started?

From: Werlax (werlax_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:41:56 GMT

I'm trying to figure out how my ppp connection is working. I know, sounds
easy, but I'm stumped. I can dial in and the modem fires up and get a
command prompt. I had a problem where the ip-up process was respawning so
fast it caused an out of memory error. Reboot. Because I couldn't find the
source, I just temporarily renamed ip-up. That took care of the respawn,
but it's not optimal, obviously. I checked inittab and the passwd file for
a ppp entry. No entries exist that directly tie to /usr/sbin/pppd. I
have -detach in the options file so I can't figure out why it was respawning
in the first place. I was messing around with /AutoPPP/ in the mgetty
config as well. I tried both DUN and hyperterm from WindowsXP.
I know I'm rambling, but I can't recall all I checked since I spent quite a
bit of time on it.
Any help would be appreciated!
Mark