Re: pppd hangs

John Hall <john-news1@cambridgetechgroup.com> wrote:

> I'm having difficulty occassionally getting pppd to terminate
> gracefully. Sometimes it doesn't respond to a SIGTERM and stays
> connected. I then try a SIGKILL, which sometimes it does not respond
> to either. Has anyone seen behaviour like this from pppd?

Not me. SIGTERM should do it regardless of how pppd is being executed.
Perhaps there are special circumstances that could cause pppd not to
terminate but I don't know any, or ever seen any other post saying it
couldn't be terminated.

Maybe there is more than one instance of pppd and the SIGTERM terminates
only the one with highest pid?

You might try "killall pppd" if you haven't already. That's supposed
to kill them all.

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