Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:18:10 +0200 From: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr> Cc: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, freeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD versions of Windows Apps Message-ID: <3B0931B2.88B22788@iafrica.com> References: <3B082EEA.62A2ADA5@iafrica.com> <8666ev68lf.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <3B083154.BF2A5D49@iafrica.com> <86zoc74t66.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <3B08C473.D233EB28@iafrica.com> <20010521112030.A17593@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 Cool, I actually forgot about the idle setting... I set mine to 0... Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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