Re: Disconnection command?

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Unruh wrote:
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Under Gnu/Debian Linux, to connect and disconnect I use the commands
'pon' and 'poff' respectively.
Instead, other Linux distributions don't have 'pon' and 'poff':
then I connect with 'pppd call my_provider', but don't
know how to disconnect apart from switching off the phone.

Can you please suggest the suitable command to disconnect?

killall pppd

I'll be /really/ pedantic and say...

For ppp0
kill SIGHUP `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`

For ppp1
kill SIGHUP `cat /var/run/ppp1.pid`

etc

FWIW, you can substitute -SIGTERM or -SIGINT for -SIGHUP



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