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Actually Mgetty kills the connection.<br />
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I found the problem to be just that. I was running pppinit from a different machine and it was creating a lock file for device modem. So it was creating a lock file for the wrong device.<br />
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I modified pppinit to lock the appropriate device and things are working well now.<br />
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Thanks<br />

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I found the problem to be just that. I was running pppinit from a different machine and it was creating a lock file for device modem. So it was creating a lock file for the wrong device.

I modified pppinit to lock the appropriate device and things are working well now.

Thanks


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I have a Linux server and am able to dial into our corporate network using pppd. The problem is that during days the server is used as an x-server and the lines are used to dial-out on and unless I comment out the mgetty entries in the inittab file the connection gets killed by pppd I think.<br />
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I have a Linux server and am able to dial into our corporate network using pppd. The problem is that during days the server is used as an x-server and the lines are used to dial-out on and unless I comment out the mgetty entries in the inittab file the connection gets killed by pppd I think.



mgetty pppd

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.