Never Reboot? I agree that reboot is NEVER the first solution but there are
cases that you have to reboot even when you have no hardware problems. (I do
not want to start a flame war here..)
What can you do when you run a login script that depends on utmpx and
someone deletes utmpx?
taking down the system to single-user and back to runlevel 2 as far as i can
see it, it's just like reboot. Users have to get of, runlevel script run
again and all the things around.
In any case, This is only my personal feeling about this "Reboot" issue.
don't kill me.
-- Yarin
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of mulix
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 3:14 PM
To: Noam Meltzer
Cc: Israeli Group of Linux Users
Subject: Re: taking down adsl connection
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> anyway, from time to time, my adsl connection down, and i can't take it
> down so easily.
"cant take it down" means what exactly? that you cant get it to
reconnect?
> actually i have to reboot the computer (maybe moving to
> runlevel 1 and then to 2 back will help, but when all you have is a telnet
> window on the masq-server..., anyhow,)
oy vey. reboot is NEVER the answer, unless you have hardware problems.
never ever. the day reboots start solving problem, you can start calling
it MSLinux.
> I remember once a discussion on how to take down an adsl-connection and i
> wish to get a URL for the thread of it in the archive, or a short summary
> of it.
quite simple, really.
1. kill pppd.
2. kill pptp.
3. if pptp didn't clean up after itself properly, you need to
'rm /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138'.
that's all there is to it. that pptp doesn not clean up after itself
properly is a bug in pptp, which i haven't felt like chasing yet. pptp
plays some tricks with sigaction and friends, and as long as i didnt
have to, i did not feel like delving into it. if someone want to do it,
patches in unified diff format will be gladly accepted.
[ there's a new pptp version out there on the net, which might (or
might not) have fixed this problem. i haven't check it yet. ]
--
mulix
http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix
linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
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