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Re: Non-interactive modem hangup



Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly.



<branden@apocalypse.sequitur.org> writes:

> Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just
> hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands.
> 
> What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo
> to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1
> immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and
> hang up on me).
> 
> The first part I've got figured out --
> 
> start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd
> 
> But there has to be an easier way to hang up the modem than writing a
> chat script or something like that.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> G. Branden Robinson
> Purdue University
> branden@purdue.edu
> http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/
> 
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