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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To: Andre Pekelaar <andre@mail.ct.paywise.co.za>
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Subject: Re: ppp locking up
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Andre Pekelaar wrote:

[...]
> 1) Is there a way to force ppp to drop the line, without me having to 
> walk across the room to unplug the phone line?  ("reboot" works, but 
> I was hoping for a more subtle method)

You could signal the `ppp' process with a signal to drop the line.

	kill -INT 'process-id-of-ppp'

[...]

Jonathan Chen
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