user disconnect fails

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

I have mandrake 6.0 and I have ppp setup through netcfg and it allows
users to bring the connection up and down. When I run
`/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ppp0` as a user my modem dials and
everything works right. But when I run ifdown ppp0 nothing happens. I
wait a few minutes and the connection stays up. Eventually I become root
and kill pppd. I logs reveal nothing about the down script, just that
pppd was killed by root.

Any ideas why I can't disconnect with the script?

Thanks,

Ben
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