wvdial does not disconnect after ctrl-c

[James McKenzie]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using wvdial (briefly) and I have a strange outcome when I
> disconnect. This happens about 90% of the time. About 10% of the time,
> it exits cleanly and everything is fine, but my question pertains to
> the other 90%.
>
> So, I hit ctrl-c and get the following
>
> ^CCaught signal 2:  Attempting to exit gracefully...
> %
>
> There is no wvdial process anymore.
>
> $ killall wvdial
> wvdial: no process found
>
>
> However, the connection is not terminated (the meter is running), and indeed,
>
> $ ps aux | grep wvdial
> root      2024  0.0  0.0  50616  2344 pts/0    S    08:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd 230400 modem crtscts defaultroute usehostname -detach user 1 noipdefault call wvdial usepeerdns idle 3600 logfd 6 remotename 0

kill -15 2024
if that fails
kill -9 2024
as root

This should disconnect you.

James McKenzie