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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:20:30 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr>
To: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD versions of Windows Apps
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:32:03AM +0200, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> 
> Well the reason I want to be able to quit ppp is because when I download large
> files I do it over night, and over here phone rates are cheap from 7pm to 7am,
> so I usually make the DL manager disconnect the modem around this time.

Two things.  If you add in your /etc/ppp/options the following:

	idle 900

After 900 seconds of inactivity on the line, the PPP daemon will close the
connection automagically.  If you want to kill pppd when some specific time i
reached, you can always use:

	# echo 'killall -TERM pppd ; killall -9 pppd' | at 06:55

Yes, I know, FreeBSD can be a lot different that Windows...

--giorgos


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