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From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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Subject: RE: Script to hangup ppp?
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:08:24 -0500
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Thanks to every one who help out on this question.
I found the backtick, it's on the same key with ~.
I tested the script and it work now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:49 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSDQ
Subject: Re: Script to hangup ppp?

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:10:50PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> No that does not work.
> It does not like the 'cat /var/run/tun0.pid' part. Gives a message
argument
> should be jobs or process id.

Use backticks. ie ` . Not quotes, ie '.

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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Radhika
Sambamurti
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:32 PM
> To: E. J. Cerejo
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Script to hangup ppp?
>
> kill -HUP `cat /var/run/tun0.pid`
>
> this should do it for you.


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