[lug] RH8 - Network Device Control

Tony Dyson the_anorak at worldnet.att.net
Fri Nov 22 06:56:49 MST 2002


Thanks. There's a "LCK..ttyS0" in /var/lock that looks like a likely 
candidate.

D. Stimits wrote:
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:24, Tony Dyson wrote:
>>
>> >A couple of times now I've had RH8's "Network Device Control" tell me a
>> >ppp interface was active when it wasn't. Anyone know how to unconfuse 
>> it?
>> >
>>
>>
>> if there isn't an interface listed in ifconfig output, then it is
>> probably find a lock file or a pid file for pppd that didn't get cleaned
>> up.
>>
>> chances are it is just a python script that you could search for ppp.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
> If it is a lock file, it'd be in /var/lock/ or a subdirectory of it.





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