pppd lock files?

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> majones wrote:
> > I know this question has been addressed over and over again, but
> > i've been struggling with this for a few weeks now...
> > 
> > When running ppp I get junk acroos my screen from mgetty about it
> > not being able to access the line.
> 
> This is a locking problem...
> 
> > Eventually it time-out's and trys to respwan itself in 5mn..
> > I'm not much of a linux guru, but maybe this will help
> > someone de-bug my problem..
> > in policy.h i have the lock info set to /var/lock
> > (that's where *I believe* my ppp connection is writing the lock files -
> > it's a standard Slackware 3.0 kernel 2.0.0 install)..
> 
> It's where it is supposed to be, yes. (Has nothing to do with the kernel,
> btw)
> 
> > I set the binary to 1 for the lock files...
> 
> This is wrong, but shouldn't matter.
> 
> > Everything else works fine..Just that little annoyance...
> > Im geting to the point where I jsut want to change the
> > line from /dev/console /dev/null and be rid of the error
> > messages :) (stupid though).
> 
> Stupid idea, because lots of other things may fail.
> 
> Most likely, you simply forgot to specify "lock" on the pppd command
> line.
> 
> gert
> 
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I do have lock specified in my ppp options file.

Could the problem have to do with using diald?
I have lock set in both the diald.conf file and the options
file..