Re: How is pppd started?

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:04:43 +0100

Werlax wrote:
> 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.

And as you notice, those files has nothing to do with your ppp connection.
The files that has to do with the ppp connection are placed in the same place
that all other network scripts, one place to look at is
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ but the location changes a lot depending of
distro.

> No entries exist that directly tie to /usr/sbin/pppd.

The file in question do call the scripts, not the other way around and it's a
binary, run it with the option --help to get some info about how to use it.
Most distros comes with a graphical interface with it's own ppp starter tool,
try out that one and things may be working a lot better for you.

  //Aho

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