Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:02:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection? Message-ID: <3935EE4E.6768548C@3-cities.com> References: <000c01bfcb7f$f0267300$90daa7d1@odie>
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Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:02 PM Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote: > > >Duke Normandin wrote: > >> > >> On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:49 PM Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> > wrote: > >> > >> >> Background: 3.3R on a standalone box > >> > > >> >> ppp / lynx are working great, except that I don't know (read , can't > >> >find) > >> >> how to shutdown a connection when I'm through. I use > >> >`/etc/start_if.tun0` > >> >> which contain `ppp -auto my_isp` to bring ppp up at boot-time. As it > >> >is, > >> >> I have to wait for `set timeout = 300` to kick in, or use `kill -HUP > >> >"ppp pid" > > [snipped for brevity] > > >Read about pppctl. Then add a local domain socket to your ppp.conf. > >Then, all you have to do is tell it to close. You can setup shell > >scripts to do the commands. I even have one for "quit all" which shuts > >ppp down nicely. > > Things work well when a person knows what to look for ;) I also searched > the archives and found your previous posts re: pppctl to "flesh out" the > above hints. I have a further question which concerns using `pppctl` as > a normal user. I noticed that I'm not able to "get a status" or "hangup" > (I have aliases set up) unless I frist `su`. It seems a long-way around > to kill a connection (from lynx, e.g.). Is the the normal way of doing > things? I have set myself up in the wheel group (among others), so I > thought that I would be able to use `pppctl` as "myself". In ppp.conf > I also have: > > default: > allow users dnormandin > > Am I missing something -- or I should say *what* am I missing? Tia.... I think you will find that your local domain socket, i.e., /var/run/internet or what ever you called it, has 544 privaledges for root and wheel. If you auto start it, it will be owned by root. I don't know any way around that. Kent > > -duke > Calgary, AB -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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