Reference

gpppkill(1)

a program to monitor and kill a ppp connection

NAME

gpppkill - a program to monitor and kill a ppp connection

SYNOPSIS

gpppkill [options...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the gpppkill command. Complete documentation is distributed with the package in its README file; see below.

gpppkill is a GTK+ program that is used to assist managing a ppp connection. gpppkill displays a throughput graph for the ppp connection, and as its name suggests, can be configured to kill your ppp connection after a specified period of idle time, or once the pppd has been connected for a specified amount of time.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

displays a help message.

-V, --version

displays the version number of gpppkill.

-c, --copyright

displays the copyright, description and contact info for gpppkill.

-i, --idle=time

Kill pppd after time of pppd being idle. The format of time may be HH:MM:SS, MM:SS or just seconds.

-o, --online=time

Kill pppd after time of pppd being connected (online). The format of time may be HH:MM:SS, MM:SS or just seconds.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs to the Debian BTS, or if they are upstream related, to Oliver Schulze <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO

pppd(8), The gpppkill program is more fully documented in its README file available in the /usr/share/doc/gpppkill directory.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll-Miller <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

History

--copyright since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --idle since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --online since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --version since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -V since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -c since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -i since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -o since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).