From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 08:12:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05800 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citytel1.citytel.net (root@citytel1.citytel.net [204.244.99.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05753 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from citytel.net (citytelprct48.citytel.net [204.244.99.124]) by citytel1.citytel.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24198; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mybsd.net (mybsd.net [192.168.0.2]) by citytel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA27820; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:32:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:32:30 -0800 (PST) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net To: Brian Somers cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: small script question.. In-Reply-To: <199802050737.HAA06685@awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > > killall -0 ppp || ppp -auto -alias city > > > > Or am I way off base here? > > The signal 0 is special. It doesn't send anything to the process - > it just tells you if it can be delivered. I played around with it yesterday and after testing it out a few times I see how it works. It is just what I needed. Thanks! Keith