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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 17:18:10 +0200
From:      Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr>
Cc:        Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, freeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD versions of Windows Apps
Message-ID:  <3B0931B2.88B22788@iafrica.com>
References:  <3B082EEA.62A2ADA5@iafrica.com> <8666ev68lf.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <3B083154.BF2A5D49@iafrica.com> <86zoc74t66.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <3B08C473.D233EB28@iafrica.com> <20010521112030.A17593@hades.hell.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:32:03AM +0200, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> >
> > Well the reason I want to be able to quit ppp is because when I download large
> > files I do it over night, and over here phone rates are cheap from 7pm to 7am,
> > so I usually make the DL manager disconnect the modem around this time.
>
> Two things.  If you add in your /etc/ppp/options the following:
>
>         idle 900
>
> After 900 seconds of inactivity on the line, the PPP daemon will close the
> connection automagically.  If you want to kill pppd when some specific time i
> reached, you can always use:
>
>         # echo 'killall -TERM pppd ; killall -9 pppd' | at 06:55
>
> Yes, I know, FreeBSD can be a lot different that Windows...
>
> --giorgos

Cool, I actually forgot about the idle setting... I set mine to 0...

Thanks.


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