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From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com>
To: "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@neomedia.it>
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Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:31:31 -0600
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On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:49 PM Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> wrote:


>> 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


I really don't want to kill ppp --- all I want to do is *disconnect*
from the 'net w/o having to wait for ppp to timeout! Any other ideas?
Thanks.....

-duke




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