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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Auto-killing slattach?
Message-ID: <kientzleDAJ8zB.FHo@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 17:09:11 GMT
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Sender: kientzle@netcom6.netcom.com
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?
(I've considered writing a Perl script to search /var/log/messages for
the `dropped carrier' message from slattach so it can get the PID and
kill slattach, but that seems like overkill.)
- Tim Kientzle
P.S. I'm still using 2.0R if it makes a difference.