On Aug 31, Britton wrote > > While on the subject of odd things that I don't begin to understand: since > I fixed my chatscript so my modem hung up when DTR went low (by > initializing the modem with ATZ and AT&D2), my computer occasionally > decides to connect itself to the internet without my doing anything at > all. I run pon, later run poff, and a few minutes or hours later I hear > my computer dialing. It has done this twice now. I have looked for > residual ppp or chat processes with ps -ax but I don't see any. On both > occasions rc5v2 was running, set to communicate freely on all ports. I > don't have diald installed.
Could it be the /sbin/request-route script, part of modutils? Apparently, this is a script called by kernel whenever it cannot find a route. You migt want to change this script to make sure it doesn't randomly connect you to your isp. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation.... Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
