From the pppd man page:
NOTES
The following signals have the specified effect when sent
to the pppd process.
SIGINT, SIGTERM
These signals cause pppd to terminate the link (by
closing LCP), restore the serial device settings,
and exit.
SIGHUP This signal causes pppd to terminate the link,
restore the serial device settings, and close the
serial device. If the persist option has been
specified, pppd will try to reopen the serial
device and start another connection. Otherwise
pppd will exit.
SIGUSR2
This signal causes pppd to renegotiate compression.
This can be useful to re-enable compression after
it has been disabled as a result of a fatal decom
pression error. With the BSD Compress scheme,
fatal decompression errors generally indicate a bug
in one or other implementation.
So do a kill -SIGTERM
Then it should clean up after itself.
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, BG Lim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used pppd to connect to my university, which has a 2 hour limit on
> connections.
>
> Problem is, when pppd stops, it leaves the lock file in /var/lock. Do I
> have to remove the file itself?
>
> Also is there a better way to stop pppd than just killing it?
>
>
> BG
>
>
>
>
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