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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:13:50 -0400
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.psu.edu>
To:        Jason McKay <jasonm@homer.argo.net.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disconnecting for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19970610091350.23696@astro.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970610200906.3421A-100000@homer.argo.net.au>; from Jason McKay on Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 08:10:19PM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970610200906.3421A-100000@homer.argo.net.au>

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On Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 08:10:19PM +0800, Jason McKay wrote:

> When a dial-up user types "exit" to logoff, it only returns them to the
> login prompt.  How do we make FreeBSD hang up the modem once 'exit' is
> entered?

I don't know exactly how you are starting ppp or pppd, but presumably
you are somehow running it from the shell or a shell script.  Instead
of just running it as "ppp" or "pppd" use "exec ppp" or "exec pppd".
"exec" replaces the shell with the program that you are running.




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