I believ you got something setup wrong Eddie. Killing the modem should
also send a signal to ppp to die. Are you running pppd with the "modem"
option. The lock file will reflect the ppp PID. Send it standard kill
will disconnect the pppd. I have attached a script that I use that runs
from cron every five minutes.{ 0-59/5 * * * * root
/full/path/to/modemcheck}. It checks if I have more logins than ports or
vice verse. Too many logins say I have a hung pppd, too many ports says
my modem isn't reseting properly. I tail the file in a terminal screen
so I see things in quick glance.
As far as the info you are looking for you can get from the auth-up and
auth-down scripts (see the pppd man pages). pppd calls this scripts if
they exist I use them to trigger nologins, create timelogs, checks
usertimes. Mostly they are meant to spawn other process. I have a nice
timelogger if your interested in it.
Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> Hello: I am trying to write a script to allow the killing of a ppp
> process for a dialup user. I am running a cylades cyclom -ye pci board
> with 32 ports for dialup access to the net and when a user logs in
> pppd will assign a random /dev/pppn device to it. It could be ppp0
> through ppp31. But it is always random. In the past with Red Hat 4.2 I
> was able to just kill the /var/lock/ttyC# file and it killed the
> entire ppp process to allow a new ppp process. But with RH 6.0 on
> kernel 2.2.14 with pppd 2.3.8 running I find that killing of the
> /var/lock PID file, (LCK..ttyC#) will only disconnect the modem but
> the ppp process is still running. So the next user that would dial
> into that certain modem could not establish a network connection as I
> assume the ppp process still sees a pppn connected to that ttyCn and
> the modem actually answers and shows a user logged on but they do not
> have a network connection. The only place I could find to associate
> what ppp device was attached to what ttyC port was to search
> /var/log/messages. Is that my only way of association? Should I run
> the script by cat /var/log/messages ttyC# to find the pppn device that
> it is using or was assigned? And if so how would the syntax go as far
> as "cat" for the PID number I need which is in /var/run? I know if I
> kill -9 that certain pppn process in /var/run/pppn.pid I can get a
> clean disconnect of modem and network to allow a clean connection for
> the next user. I have experimented and searched in depth but can not
> seem to get it to work properly. Any advise would be very helpful as I
> need that remote "easy" way of killing a pppn PID without going
> through the labor of looking it up in /var/log/messages each
> time. Thanks in Advance, Eddie StrohmierBonwell
> Globalnetwww.bonwell.com
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