PPP-WATCH(8)

📦 version 2.5.1, in centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 PPP-WATCH(8) 💖

the ppp-watch era — a System Manager's Manual girly, section 8, and she's here to make your PPP interfaces act like literally every other interface, no cap ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ppp-watch</purpose> — daemon to make PPP interfaces act more like other interfaces 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ppp-watch interface-name [boot]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, ppp-watch manages one PPP connection. one. that's her whole job and she's obsessed with it 🫶. That means starting it, stopping it, and redialing it — the full main character arc.

The way that it makes starting and stopping the connection synchronous activities?? iconic. no more "wait did it connect or not" chaos, she handles the timing fr fr 💀

ngl, ppp-watch is not really meant to be called directly. She should only be used from within the ifup-ppp script. that's her home. her safe space. don't come for her directly, it's giving disrespect 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • interface-name — the name of the PPP interface to bring up. just tell her which one and she's on it 💖
  • boot — this one means ppp-watch is being called at boot time, so she should time out after a while if the PPP connection does not come up. and why?? because we are NOT hanging the boot sequence, periodt. the boot sequence has places to be 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie there's nothing else listed here, she's a standalone queen, and honestly? slay 💅

okay that's the whole page, love u, bye 🎀

this gem comes to you courtesy of RHS and Red Hat, Inc. — authoring the whole vibe, and she's living under the PPP-WATCH(8) name like the star she is ⭐ 💜

📦 where this page comes from
  • centos-stream 10: ppp 2.5.0-13.el10 · bsd-3-clause AND zlib AND licenseref-fedora-public-domain AND bsd-attribution-hpnd-disclaimer AND bsd-4.3tahoe AND bsd-4-clause-uc AND apache-2.0 AND lgpl-2.0-or-later AND (gpl-2.0-or-later OR bsd-2-clause OR bsd-3-clause OR bsd-4-clause) AND gpl-2.0-or-later AND xlock AND gpl-1.0-or-later AND mackerras-3-clause-acknowledgment AND mackerras-3-clause AND hpnd-fenneberg-Livingston AND sun-ppp AND hpnd-inria-imag AND sun-ppp-2000
  • centos-stream 9: ppp 2.4.9-5.el9 · BSD and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and Public Domain
  • centos-stream 9: ppp 2.4.9-5.el9 · BSD and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and Public Domain
  • fedora 43: ppp 2.5.1-6.fc43 · bsd-3-clause AND zlib AND licenseref-fedora-public-domain AND bsd-attribution-hpnd-disclaimer AND bsd-4.3tahoe AND bsd-4-clause-uc AND apache-2.0 AND lgpl-2.0-or-later AND (gpl-2.0-or-later OR bsd-2-clause OR bsd-3-clause OR bsd-4-clause) AND gpl-2.0-or-later AND xlock AND gpl-1.0-or-later AND mackerras-3-clause-acknowledgment AND mackerras-3-clause AND hpnd-fenneberg-Livingston AND sun-ppp AND hpnd-inria-imag AND sun-ppp-2000
  • fedora 43: ppp 2.5.1-6.fc43 · bsd-3-clause AND zlib AND licenseref-fedora-public-domain AND bsd-attribution-hpnd-disclaimer AND bsd-4.3tahoe AND bsd-4-clause-uc AND apache-2.0 AND lgpl-2.0-or-later AND (gpl-2.0-or-later OR bsd-2-clause OR bsd-3-clause OR bsd-4-clause) AND gpl-2.0-or-later AND xlock AND gpl-1.0-or-later AND mackerras-3-clause-acknowledgment AND mackerras-3-clause AND hpnd-fenneberg-Livingston AND sun-ppp AND hpnd-inria-imag AND sun-ppp-2000
  • fedora 44: ppp 2.5.1-7.fc44 · bsd-3-clause AND zlib AND licenseref-fedora-public-domain AND bsd-attribution-hpnd-disclaimer AND bsd-4.3tahoe AND bsd-4-clause-uc AND apache-2.0 AND lgpl-2.0-or-later AND (gpl-2.0-or-later OR bsd-2-clause OR bsd-3-clause OR bsd-4-clause) AND gpl-2.0-or-later AND xlock AND gpl-1.0-or-later AND mackerras-3-clause-acknowledgment AND mackerras-3-clause AND hpnd-fenneberg-Livingston AND sun-ppp AND hpnd-inria-imag AND sun-ppp-2000
  • fedora 44: ppp 2.5.1-7.fc44 · bsd-3-clause AND zlib AND licenseref-fedora-public-domain AND bsd-attribution-hpnd-disclaimer AND bsd-4.3tahoe AND bsd-4-clause-uc AND apache-2.0 AND lgpl-2.0-or-later AND (gpl-2.0-or-later OR bsd-2-clause OR bsd-3-clause OR bsd-4-clause) AND gpl-2.0-or-later AND xlock AND gpl-1.0-or-later AND mackerras-3-clause-acknowledgment AND mackerras-3-clause AND hpnd-fenneberg-Livingston AND sun-ppp AND hpnd-inria-imag AND sun-ppp-2000
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