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From: Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 17:12:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Help! It seems that pppd can't work properly when syslogd
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On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:00 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Chris Fowler writes:
> > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 10:55 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > > The common components seem to be Linux and rp-pppoe.  Pppd works fine
> > > on other platforms and when PPPoE isn't in use.
> > 
> > I use pppd and pppoe on my system.
> > 
> > Linux firewall 2.4.18-3firewall #5 Sat Aug 24 20:33:10 EDT 2002 i586
> > unknown
> 
> ... and it doesn't happen on _all_ systems, just _some_ of them.
> Whatever it is, it's strange.
> 

trace it.  Use strace and see what is going on.