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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
Reply-To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
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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.