From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 04:53:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235DC16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:53:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFCB43D4C for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:53:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.218] (c-24-1-232-64.client.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005031204533801400jib9ee>; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:53:38 +0000 Message-ID: <423275FE.1050901@computer.org> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:54:22 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems stopping pptp... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:53:39 -0000 Hello, This was originally posted to -Questions. I thought it would be a no brainer and get an immediate response. But I haven't heard from anyone yet, so I thought I'd post here too. I have some keybindings on my laptop that allow me to easily start and stop a pptp connection to my office. The binding are of no concern other than I would like to be able to start/stop pptp as a non-root user. It looks something like: Control Shift V opens the vpn using sudo pptp x.x.x.x OFFICE Alt Shift V closes the connection sudo killall -TERM ppp When I do this (stopping pptp) I get a pptp.core in my home dir. In fact no matter what I try... I allways end up with a core. I have tried: # as myself sudo killall -TERM ppp sudo kill -TERM `cat /var/run/tun0.pid` sudo killall -TERM pptp Also tried those as root (without sudo). I have tried all of the above after issuing the pptp command from CLI as root. Still no luck I have also tried other signals (QUIT, ABRT). So... the question is.. How am I supposed to shut down a pptp connection? I would like to be able to do it with sudo, or at least some way to bind it to keys of non-root users. Thanks, -- Regards, Eric