On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, John P. Marr wrote:
> 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'
should be
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
>
>
Frank
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