An odd thing happens when I have been connected for many (many) hours, generally anywhere from 6 to 12 or so. It is not like the standard bootings (attack dialing takes care of those :). The modem connects, does some sqweeking, then starts going bee-bee-boooop, high tones to low with lengths as implied. I always assumed this was a thing my university ISP did to defend themselves from attack scripts like mine, but one day this behavior continued for a dozen or so hours and I called the techies there in search of a way to make reparation. They said they didn't know of anything spooky on their end, and suggested I reboot. Knowing what I know of linux, I didn't think much of this suggestion, but I tried it. After rebooting, the next time I dialed it worked. This has happened twice now. I suspect a bug somewhere in ppp on the pon script, or possibly in the kernel. Restarting ppp (and killing the chat process) doesn't fix the problem though. I noticed the following message when I halted the system:
... Send ... TERM signal lp1 out of paper <--- Send... KILL signal which I have never observed before. I am reasonably certian there was nothing in the print Q, but there may have been. I include this only in case there is something suggestive about it. Britton __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." (sig assumed to be GPLed) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
