[pptp-server] pptpd processes not killed after disconnect

[Larry Rivera]

Hello:
I'm getting pptpd processes that are remaining active after closing the
connection from my pptp linux clients. Has anyone encountered this?
See process 557 below which has been going since yesterday. (The only
way to kill it was with:  kill -HUP 557)
1939 and 2055 are today's connections (one is from the same machine as
process 557).
Has anyone encountered this?
LR

PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:04 init [3]
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [kflushd]
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdate]
    4 ?        SW     0:00 [kpiod]
    5 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
  102 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/rpc.portmap
  106 ?        R    634:24 /usr/sbin/syslogd
  109 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3
  111 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
  113 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
  115 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
  118 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
  120 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
  122 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1
  129 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
  133 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd
  136 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  138 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  139 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  140 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  141 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  142 ?        S      0:00 /var/lib/apache/sbin/httpd
  143 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
  145 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
  147 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
  164 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/pptpd -d
  166 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd
  168 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd
  176 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd -detach file
/etc/ppp/options.coqui co
  178 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -tcp

  180 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -udp

  181 tty1     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
  182 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
  183 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
  184 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
  185 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
  186 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
  557 ?        R    805:03 pptpd [196.42.53.240]
 1939 ?        S      0:00 pptpd [196.42.31.169]
 1940 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd local file
/etc/ppp/options.pptpd 1152
 2025 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
 2055 ?        S      0:00 pptpd [196.42.31.147]
 2057 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd local file
/etc/ppp/options.pptpd 1152
 2080 ?        S      0:09 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
 2083 ?        S      0:00 in.telnetd: ppp-196-42-31-119.coqui.net
 2084 pts/2    S      0:00 -bash
 2095 pts/2    S      0:00 bash
 2106 pts/2    R      0:00 ps ax