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Title: pppd/chat processes
Post by: naChoZ on April 05, 2004, 12:11:09 pm

I was just looking to see what I could save as far as memory and unwanted processes?  Does pppd and the chat need to be running?  ps shows it has something to do with a script named winclient.  I don\'t run windows, can I kill this off safely?  If so, how?

Title: pppd/chat processes
Post by: lardman on April 06, 2004, 01:27:07 pm

You can try to kill pppd but it will respawn methinks. This is something to do with Qtopia waiting on the serial port for a sync connection (same goes for chat, etc.). There was a script you could edit to get rid - on the devnet of course, perhaps someone will remember.

If you want to try killing it use:
# kill -9 PID
where PID is the process ID (from \'ps\' for example)
or
# killall -9 pppd
will also do the trick (using the name instead - actually it\'ll kill anything will pppd in the name I think)


Si

Title: pppd/chat processes
Post by: naChoZ on April 06, 2004, 01:41:09 pm

Yeah, I tried that.  It does respawn.  I peeked briefly in the inittab, but I haven\'t bothered looking into the scripts called from there yet.