tlug: the cron that won't kill

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

Thank you, Simon, for the advice on using cron. 
I ran into a snag, however. 
It's probably something stupid, but I can't 
figure out what it is yet. 

"killall pppd" typed in as root works fine, 
the modem clicks off and ppp can be restarted 
again. 

I put this in /etc/cron.daily/killppp.cron (a new file):

#!/bin/sh

killall pppd


and changed /etc/crontab so that the daily tasks would be 
handled at a test time (a few minutes after the editing 
of these file). I then stopped and restarted 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond . 

Cron kicked in when its time rolled around. I could hear 
...something happening...maybe it doing its other daily 
tasks. However, the modem didn't click off; pppd was 
not killed. 

I tried killall -HUP pppd and then 
killall -9 pppd , just to see if 
anything different would happen; 
nothing did. 

I also tried rebooting the system to see 
if that would do the trick, but no luck. 
Any ideas? 

Thanks. 






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