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From: Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ppp link time limit
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:55:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253904924.6726.681.camel@compaq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004001ca3e15$69a6b9d0$0413010a@scu.escambray.com.cu>

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $pid = fork();
exit 0 if $pid;

$pid = fork();

if($pid = 0) {
  exec "/usr/sbin/pppd", ("call", "isp", "nodetach");
  exit 1;
}

sleep 1800;
kill 15, $pid;


On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:51 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Bill Unruh wrote:
> 
> > pppd call isp & sleep 1800; killall pppd
> 
> The above will kill any pppd process, not just the backgrounded one from 
> this shell script.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-25 18:20 ppp link time limit Davy Leon
2009-09-25 18:28 ` Chris Fowler
2009-09-25 18:40 ` Bill Unruh
2009-09-25 18:51 ` Charlie Brady
2009-09-25 18:55 ` Chris Fowler [this message]
2009-09-25 18:56 ` James Carlson
2009-09-25 20:28 ` Bill Unruh

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