Why doesn't pppd over ssh work here? Why can't I kill pppd?
- by Peter V. Mørch
I'm trying to setup a simple ppp tunnel over ssh. It works on several machines just fine. But on one machine, pppd gets "stuck":
> pgrep pppd | xargs ps up
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 4178 0.0 0.1 3020 1088 pts/1 Ds+ 05:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd
Any attempt to kill it (even sudo…