Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:11:52 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection? Message-ID: <000c01bfcb7f$f0267300$90daa7d1@odie>
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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....
-duke
Calgary, AB
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