On Tue, February 8, 2005 9:43 am, Volker Kuhlmann said: >> and also enable the corresponding but in /etc/ppp/ip-down to stop the >> ping when you disconnect: >> # Stop ping if you started it in /etc/ppp/ip-up. >> #killall ping 2>/dev/null > > And this runs as root? What a bad piece of scripting... > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >
...especially when early versions of killall looked in a ps list and sent signals to all processes that matched... so all processes with the string ping in them would be attacked ( Poor pingu (: ) Dunno if it's different now -I took one look at the script and vowed never to use that command. Steve -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
