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Today's Topics:

    1. Re: another openbsd -> ppp (Jeremy C. Reed)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:10:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: plug <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: another openbsd -> ppp
Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Mike Starke wrote:

 > And disconnecting is as easy as
 > 'poff'

 > Now, I do not know how to disconnect without
 > killing the process. Certainly there is a more
 > gracefull way than 'kill <PID>'?

Have a look at that poff script. Basically it does:
   /bin/kill -TERM `pidof pppd`

pidof can be done like:
   ps axc -o pid,command | awk "\$2~/^`echo $1`\$/ {print \$1}"

That poff script is so short you could rewrite (with a friendlier
license). (Or choose to just use it on your BSD box.)

    Jeremy C. Reed
    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/



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