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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-killing slattach?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:07:59 +0200
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<kientzle@netcom.com> wrote:

>I've cobbled together a Kermit script that dials up my local ISP and
>starts up slattach.  The annoying point is that when I hang up (with
>Kermit), slattach is left running, and has to be killed manually.  Is
>there an easy way to have slattach die when the carrier drops?

Slattach normally catches the SIGHUP and tries to redial.  You can
provide it with a command used for redialing (option -r), and nobody
says that you cannot use this command in order to kill slattach off.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)