Greetings all:
After windows 98 crashed on me two days ago, I decided to start using
linux to connect to the net and get my email. I created two scripts in the
/var/run directory called pppon and pppoff.
Pppon works fine. Pppoff, however, doesn't. The contents of pppoff are
#!/bin/sh
kill 'cat /var/run/ppp0.pid'
using the cat command gives me to pid number I need to kill, but this
script, which I took from a book, doesn't seem to work. Am I doing anything
wrong? Does anyone have a better script to disconnect with? Also, I can run
the script only as root user. When I log in as a normal user or a user with
root powers, I am never able to get the dialup script to run even though I
have chmod 755 the scripts. Do I need to change the properties of pppd?
Where is pppd located?
John
