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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!kone!news.ccs.queensu.ca!news From: Jake <3rlk1@qlink.queensu.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: iij-ppp auto-dial question Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 07:59:16 +0000 Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3275B954.41C67EA6@qlink.queensu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip134.qlink.queensu.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP i386) Hi, I have iij-ppp setup to autodial on my system, but it is a pain to logoff of my ISP. I have a little shell script that starts ppp -auto, then starts ping which causes ppp to dial in. However, when I want to logoff I have to telnet to 127.0.0.1 3000 as root, type close, then quit all. How can I automate this? Maybe with a shell script? Right now I just ahve a ppp option in my ctwm menu, that starts ppp, and starts pinging, I know ehn I am logged in because the pings starts getting through. I would like to have another option like pppdown, that logs me off automagically. Is this possible? Is there any harm ion just letting it time out? I'm on for free through the university so time is not a factor. Thanks Jake