Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 05:51:26 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection? Message-ID: <000801bfcbbf$be8d8140$10dba7d1@odie>
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On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:24 PM Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote: >Duke Normandin wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:02 PM Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote: >> >> >Duke Normandin wrote: >> >> >> >> 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" >> >> [snipped for brevity] >> >> >Read about pppctl. Then add a local domain socket to your ppp.conf. >> >Then, all you have to do is tell it to close. You can setup shell >> >scripts to do the commands. I even have one for "quit all" which shuts >> >ppp down nicely. >> >> Things work well when a person knows what to look for ;) I also searched >> the archives and found your previous posts re: pppctl to "flesh out" the >> above hints. I have a further question which concerns using `pppctl` as >> a normal user. I noticed that I'm not able to "get a status" or "hangup" >> (I have aliases set up) unless I frist `su`. It seems a long-way around >> to kill a connection (from lynx, e.g.). Is the the normal way of doing >> things? I have set myself up in the wheel group (among others), so I >> thought that I would be able to use `pppctl` as "myself". In ppp.conf >> I also have: >> >> default: >> allow users dnormandin >> >> Am I missing something -- or I should say *what* am I missing? Tia.... > >I think you will find that your local domain socket, i.e., >/var/run/internet or what ever you called it, has 544 privaledges for >root and wheel. If you auto start it, it will be owned by root. I >don't know any way around that. So if I abandonned auto-starting ppp, and ran it as a normal user via a sh script, could that solve the problem? And speaking of these sh scripts (e.g. -- the ones to "use" pppctl ) , ideally where should they live? -duke Calgary, AB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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