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  Failing Miserably, If Not Inventively
Subject:   disable pppd when not needed?
Date:   2004-02-07 05:42:34
From:   hayne
I couldn't properly determine how to pass the request to the real pppd daemon for further operation


Why not have your "fake" pppd start and stop the real pppd as needed? If it isn't running, it won't dial out!

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  • Kevin Hemenway photo disable pppd when not needed?
    2004-02-07 07:59:23  Kevin Hemenway | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    For the fake pppd to work correctly, it would have had to pass the same environment, STDIN, and command line flags, to the real pppd. Once that was nailed down, the program could be solved a number of different ways. Due to ignorance, however, I was never able to have the fake pppd correctly pass things to the real pppd.