Help Needed regarding ppp connection Termination

bedi-beparwah · 04-14-2005, 10:40 AM

hi, friends, i use ppp Internet Connection through GPRS on my Cellular Phone. eveyr thing goes fine.... I start the connection by the following command in Terminal.

wvdail GPRS

but the terminal in which i give this command and connection establishes...
when i close the terminal the ppp Connection is automatically terminates.

Is there any solution of this....so that after establishment of connection i can close the Terminal but the connection remains activated and established.

Hoping for you kind reply

abisko00 · 04-14-2005, 11:02 AM

Try to start the command with nohup <command>. This will run the command independent from the terminal.

bedi-beparwah · 04-14-2005, 11:22 AM

hi First of all , thanks " abisko " , thanks a lot ,

but now there is another problem.

How can i disconnect the same Conncetion intentionally.

Please let me know., soon

thanking you in advance

NoeticRapture · 04-14-2005, 11:25 AM

I'm still not 100% familiar with the low-level details of how processes are handled, but as I understand it, adding a '&' to the end of your line should fix the problem (by causing the process to be forked and started in the background). So in the term window, type

wvdail GPRS &

Hope that does it for you

abisko00 · 04-14-2005, 11:51 AM

Quote:

How can i disconnect the same Conncetion intentionally.

Good question! I don't know an elegant way, but in general you look-up the process-id (pid) with 'ps ax | grep wvdial' and then kill the process: 'kill -19 <pid>' (-19 is SIGSTOP, which I think is a soft way of killing, -9 is pretty brutal. However, I am not sure what these signals actually do). 'kill -l' lists all possible signals.

EDIT: If you don't like to lookup the pid first, you can also use:

Code:

kill `pidof wvdial`

The command 'pidof' does the job for you

bedi-beparwah · 04-14-2005, 11:54 AM

It does NOT work . But any way , thanks.

Hope for your kind help in future too.