Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:30:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Script to make ppp hangup? Message-ID: <199907032330.AAA73298@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:24:41 EDT." <377CE7C9.3E6CC193@glue.umd.edu>
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> I want to make a script that runs 'ppp -background' then fetchmail and then
> tells ppp to hangup. Currently the only way I know how to make a background ppp
> process disconnect is by using kill, but ppp doesn't leave its pid anywhere
> (that I can find) so I don't know how the script will know what process to kill.
> Is there another way to do this?
If it's the only running ppp on your machine, a simple ``killall
ppp'' is the easiest way.
Alternatively, put something like
! sh -c "echo PROCESSID >/tmp/ppp.pid"
in ppp.linkup and do a ``kill `cat /tmp/ppp.pid`'' from your script,
or if you've got a ``set server'' in your config, just use pppctl to
tell ppp to ``close''.
> Thanks,
> Brandon
> --
> bfoz@glue.umd.edu
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