Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 01:41:25 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection? Message-ID: <20000531.1412500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <000701bfca91$599a0d00$6bdba7d1@odie> References: <000701bfca91$599a0d00$6bdba7d1@odie>
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On 5/31/00, 12:45:34 AM, "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com>
wrote regarding How to close a ppp connection?:
> Background: 3.3R on a standalone box
> ppp / lynx are working great, except that I don't know (read , can't
find)
> how to shutdown a connection when I'm through. I use
`/etc/start_if.tun0`
> which contain `ppp -auto my_isp` to bring ppp up at boot-time. As it
is,
> I have to wait for `set timeout = 300` to kick in, or use `kill -HUP
"ppp pid"
> `.
> -sidebar-
> Buried somewhere deep in /usr/ are html-type docs etc in languages
other
> than English which are of no use to me. It is safe to nuke these dir /
files?
> -duke
Hello Duke,
use ``ps ax'' & ``awk'' to feed the kill command ... before reading
the next line :-))
For the impatient: ps ax | awk '$5 == "ppp" { system("kill " $1)}'
Regards,
Salvo
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