Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:43:37 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to close a ppp connection? Message-ID: <39347C59.C502122C@3-cities.com> References: <000801bfcaa8$598702c0$52dba7d1@odie>
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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"
> >> `.
> >
> >> -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.....
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.
Kent
>
> -duke
>
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