VPN Failed to connect

VNP occassionally fail to connect on my mac. It seems to be a minor crash in racoon somewhere*. Manually restarting the process seems to do the trick:

mac:~ $ ps -ef | grep racoon
0 23301 1 0 0:01.01 ?? 0:01.68 /usr/sbin/racoon
501 24444 24439 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 grep racoon

sudo kill 23301
sudo /usr/sbin/racoon

LiveUpdate

on my mac, the live update come up every hour. To find out what’s causing it, the following are some useful commands:

1. check current live update settings

sudo symsched -l

Module Name On UI Freq Day Time Args

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LiveUpdate DefaultLiveUpdateSchedul 1 0 Hourly 04:33 "All Products"

It is set to hourly update and not in quiet mode.

1. delete current setting

sudo symsched -d all

1. add new policy

sudo symsched LiveUpdate "LiveUpdate" 1 0 -daily 09:00 "All Products" -quiet

1. check new settings

Module Name On UI Freq Day Time Args

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LiveUpdate LiveUpdate 1 0 Daily 09:00 "All Products" -quiet

Now it is running in quiet mode.