Kppp: script to kill Licq on closed connection?

el_felipe · 12-14-2001, 09:19 AM

I set up kppp to start Licq for me when it connects to internet, but i tried to find something to automatically kill the job... nothing!

does anybody know if there's a way to do that? I basically need a script which retreives the PID of Licq and kills it. I read man pages of kill, pid, pidof... not much help

thanx -el felipe-

DavidPhillips · 12-14-2001, 09:25 AM

not sure about what your doing but heres a generic idea.

you might play around with it.

make a script some what like this and run it from kppp...

#!/bin/sh

#start the program

myprogram &

# wait a while

sleep 60

#kill the program

killall -9 myprogram

el_felipe · 12-14-2001, 09:38 AM

David,

I just didn't try killall -9 ... now there's virtually no need of a script, just entering "killall -9 licq-bin" in the kppp setup > program to run after disconnecting dialog...

well actually i hope, i'll give it a try and i tell you... thanx!

-el felipe-

DavidPhillips · 12-14-2001, 03:33 PM

Ok I see,

did not realize you were also disconnecting.

el_felipe · 12-14-2001, 04:37 PM

David,

upon connecting:
licq & kmago (I also use kmago..)

upon disconnecting:
killall -9 licq-bin kmago

...that's it, bye bye

el felipe

DavidPhillips · 12-14-2001, 04:44 PM

kewl