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From: yzalkow@fox.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-killing slattach?
Date: 23 Jun 1995 21:02:20 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: <kientzle@netcom.com> wrote:

: >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?

: Slattach normally catches the SIGHUP and tries to redial.  You can
: provide it with a command used for redialing (option -r), and nobody
: says that you cannot use this command in order to kill slattach off.
: -- 
: cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
:                                    http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

and an easy command to kill it is something like this:

kill `ps -aux | grep slattach | grep -v grep | cut -c10-14`

This works by the way, so I guess if you add this to the "-r" on slattach, it
should do what you want.

Chris Inacio
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cinacio@vt.edu