Re: bad kerneld behaviour

Jacek Zapala (jacek@deuter.im.pw.edu.pl)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:39:51 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Bjorn Ekwall wrote:

> Jacek Zapala wrote:
> >
> > So, ppp.o has been unloaded by kerneld after the specified timeout (5
> > minutes in this case) COUNTING FROM LOADING TIME and not from the time of
> > last use/access. This is wrong. Of course if it had been in use then, if
> > wouldn't had been unloaded.
>
> There is no way that kerneld can now when the last access ocurred...

Pity ... But I'm a programmer, too, and can understand "no way" :-)

> The right fix is to make sure that modprobe knows about tty-ldisc-3.
> Check the output from "modprobe -c", it should contain:
>
> alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp
>
> If it doesn't, then add that line to "/etc/conf.modules".
> There are some more hints in the kerneld-mini-HOWTO (thanks Henrik!).

Thanks for the info

> Bjorn <bj0rn@blox.se>

Jacek