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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sgi.com!mr.net!visi.com!news From: Pat Sonnek <psonnek@soncom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Strange messages at end of pppd session Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 05:42:10 -0500 Organization: (missing) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <325A3002.6B30@soncom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: win95.soncom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) I am using the kernel ppp (pppd) it seems to be working just fine (and faster, using less cpu resources tha ijppp) the only thing that is bothering me, is that when a caller logs off, the following messages appear in the /var/log/messages file: Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: ioctl (PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate ioctl for device Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: ioctl (PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate ioctl for device Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: ioctl(PPPIOCSASYNCMAP): Inappropriate ioctl for device Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: fcntl(F_SETFL, fdflags): Inappropriate ioctl for device Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Inappropriate ioctl for device Oct 7 23:08:20 nancy pppd[11956]: tcsetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device I am woundering how to stop these messages, and make pppd disconnect a little cleaner. -- Patrick Sonnek - SysAdmin Sonnek Communications http://www.soncom.com