wvdial does not disconnect after ctrl-c

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:10:37 -0500 James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using wvdial (briefly) and I have a strange outcome when I
> > disconnect. This happens about 90% of the time. About 10% of the time,
> > it exits cleanly and everything is fine, but my question pertains to
> > the other 90%.
> >
> > So, I hit ctrl-c and get the following
> >
> > ^CCaught signal 2:  Attempting to exit gracefully...
> > %
> >
> > There is no wvdial process anymore.
> >
> > $ killall wvdial
> > wvdial: no process found
> >
> >
> > However, the connection is not terminated (the meter is running), and indeed,
> >
> > $ ps aux | grep wvdial
> > root      2024  0.0  0.0  50616  2344 pts/0    S    08:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd 230400 modem crtscts defaultroute usehostname -detach user 1 noipdefault call wvdial usepeerdns idle 3600 logfd 6 remotename 0
> 
> kill -15 2024
> if that fails
> kill -9 2024
> as root
> 
> This should disconnect you.
> 
> James McKenzie

Thank you! I guess the answer then is, to try 

sudo killall pppd

which should do it?

This works! At least has, this first time around....

Is the other anomalous behavior a bug? Reported against what?
sudo tail -f /var/log/messages offers no clue.

Many thanks again, and best wishes,
Ranjan