From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:55:24 +0000
Subject: Re: ppp link time limit
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#!/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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