[lug] red hat dialer

[dan radom]

when i want to kill wvdial i just do a ctrl + c in that xterm where it's running.  it shuts doen wvdial, ppp and closes teh xterm for me.

> This last line is what I'd never done correctly. It now works. In a more
> comic and cosmic setting, I then needed a way to drop the modem.
> Normally I just use an alias as root for "killall -HUP wvdial" (it runs
> in the background). I found that even if I added sudo ability for
> killall -9 wvdial, it still wouldn't hang up. It managed to kill wvdial,
> but pppd was still going, and ppp0 was still up. Eventually I got
> ifconfig ppp0 down to drop the interface...still the phone was
> connected. Then killall -9 worked on pppd to get the line down. Somehow
> there is a sense of comedy that once sudo works, it's hard to stop
> wvdial without becoming root, or using many commands.
> 
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