Hi all,

I am using redhat 7.3 and have applied all updates since May, 2003. While I need to use my linux to dial out using PPP to connect to my remote web camera. The model of model using is US Robotics 56 Fax/Modem and the model of webcam is AXIS 2120. The whole process will be run once per ten minutes and I can successfully get what I want with one problem. That is my linux box will create over 1000 process during dailing out and hangup for ip-up and ip-down. So does anyone know what is the problem ?

Attached herewith the log that I cut from /var/log/messages which is being generated during from the process

Jun 5 12:10:01 localhost pppd[6494]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jun 5 12:10:17 localhost pppd[6494]: Serial connection established.
Jun 5 12:10:17 localhost pppd[6494]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 5 12:10:17 localhost pppd[6494]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Jun 5 12:10:18 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: Remote message: Login ok
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [10.1.8.1]
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: local IP address 192.168.168.16
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: remote IP address 192.168.168.222
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: local IP address 192.168.168.16
Jun 5 12:10:25 localhost pppd[6494]: remote IP address 192.168.168.222
Jun 5 12:11:03 localhost pppd[6494]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jun 5 12:11:04 localhost pppd[6494]: Connection terminated.
Jun 5 12:11:04 localhost pppd[6494]: Connect time 0.8 minutes.
Jun 5 12:11:04 localhost pppd[6494]: Sent 823 bytes, received 13512 bytes.
Jun 5 12:11:04 localhost pppd[6494]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jun 5 12:11:04 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported



Thx & Rgds,
Frank