I installed the PPTP VPN on a client to connect via pptpvpn to a server which is running it. I used pptpconfig to config the network. When I connect, the VPN runs fine. I looked in pptpconfig and saw it does a usr sbin pppd call myserver logfd 1 updetach persist (I used "myserver" in this mail instead of the actual name). So I made a file etc init.d pptpvpn where under start) I do the above (along with some checking, etc). This also works nicely, when I but (after chkconfig on) the VPN comes up and I can connect. Problem is, if somehow the pptp process dies, if it is in etc init.d it won't start up automatically again (which I need), so instead I transfered to etc inittab: vp:35:respawn: usr sbin pppd call myserver logfd 1 updetach persist A "kill -1 1" or reboot will start this, but a ps just shows two processes with that but I can't ping. A few minutes later it shows two processes again but with new PIDs. Then a few minutes later two new processes with the same parameters (there are only 2 at a time). I can't ping anything on the VPN either (and I do add the routes in ip-up.local so from the etc rc5.d script it starts up the route). Anyway how can I either modify my script in etc init.d (linked to etc rc*.d) to respawn in the (unlikely but possible) case the process dies, or modify etc inittab to work correctly? Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
