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
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...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

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