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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