From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 17:13:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8334E37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGP1YZ03.R9W; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:13:47 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6J0BLp80068; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:11:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:11:21 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Closing PPP connection opened using ppp -auto Message-ID: <20010718201121.I51074@localhost> References: <045b01c10fc4$7813ba50$0200a8c0@mark2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <045b01c10fc4$7813ba50$0200a8c0@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:57:05PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do a kill -HUP ppp process number. I use sudo which allows me to let normal users reset this process that is started as root. If you want, I can send you the steps on how to do this. It beats logging in as root everytime to kill a connection. Ian As it was put forth by Mark Hughes on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:57:05PM +0100... > If I've opened a PPP connection using the line... > > ppp -auto adsl > > (where adsl is the profile name) > > and the line has come up with usage, as is expected, how do I force a > disconnect? The only way I can find to do it at the moment is by running > killall ppp as root, which seems a little excessive and heavy handed, and > also messes up the driver for my adsl modem - then requiring a reboot to > reconnnect (as far as I can tell). > > How do I force a disconnect? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message