The Answer Guy 29: Co-ordinating diald and Manual PPP

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# The Answer Guy

#### By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
Starshine Technical Services, http://www.starshine.org/

### Co-ordinating diald and Manual PPP

From Keith Weisz on 30 Apr 1998
Mr. Dennis,
I set my Linux box up using the `diald` daemon for such things as `fetchmail`, multi-machine internet access, etc. Works good.
However I want to set up a standard PPP connection without demand dialing. `pppd` fails unless I kill `diald`.
Do I:

1. Write a script to kill `diald` during the initiation of PPP, then write a script to reinitialize `diald` on PPP shutdown?
2. Figure out how to make PPP and `diald` work together?
3. Find a trick that I haven't had the patience to track down?

Any suggestions?
Keith Weisz

> Keith,
> I use option number 1. -- just write a script that does the kill for you (something like:

> > `kill $(cat /var/run/diald.pid)`

> Should kill it for you. (... where `$()` is the same as ```` in bash or Korn shell).
> Another alternative might be to define separate runlevels for `diald` mode and "manual" `pppd` mode. That would only be appropriate if you were using `init` to respawn `diald` (adding an appropriate line to the `/etc/inittab` file).

##### Copyright © 1998, James T. Dennis
Published in Linux Gazette Issue 29 June 1998

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