Kppp Problem

[ViMan]

My modem by defaults uses the interface ppp0. I use kppp to connect to the net with no problems. However, whenever I leave a batch job to run (ex. wget and use killall -9 pppd) to kill the pppd daemon, I get a problem when trying to run kppp. It runs normally but when it tries to connect, it tells me (in the terminal from which I ran it from): "Couldn't find interface ppp1: No such device" while telling me in the kppp window: "Logging onto Network" If I tell kppp to disconnect and then connect again, I have no problems. Why is it looking for the device on ppp1 when the device is on ppp0? Any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks for your time...

[slapNUT]

You should use kppp -k to terminate the connection.

killall -9 pppd is probably leaving a pid file somewhere (probably /var/run/ppp0.pid) that pppd sees and thinks there is a ppp0 session running so it starts ppp1.

[rapture]

I believe the .pid file is located in, ~/.kde/share/apps/kppp, well at least that the where it is on my machine. I've had this problem before. So I would recommend that you use kill -15 instead of kill -9, unless using kppp -k is the same wa I suggested. Anyways, hope this helps some.

[ViMan]

Thanks. Both solutions work :D