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From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:31:18 GMT
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Subject: Re: pppass out
To: Wobbly <snorkel@telstra.com>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 6/23/00, 1:41:09 PM, Wobbly <snorkel@telstra.com> wrote regarding=20
pppass out:


> How do I kill user ppp once a connection is successfully established=20
in
> -background mode?

> Thanks!

> Rosco.


Dear Rosco,

in order to kill user PPP, you can issue a command such as

ps x | awk '$5 =3D=3D "ppp" { system("kill " $1)}'

No need  to grep | egrep | awk etc. :-)

If you wish to control user PPP, you might want to have a look at=20
pppctl(8).

Best regards,
Salvo





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