Problems stopping pptp...

[Eric Schuele]

Hello,

This was originally posted to -Questions.  I thought it would be a no 
brainer and get an immediate response.  But I haven't heard from anyone 
yet, so I thought I'd post here too.

I have some keybindings on my laptop that allow me to easily start and
stop a pptp connection to my office.  The binding are of no concern 
other than I would like to be able to start/stop pptp as a non-root user.

It looks something like:
   Control Shift V opens the vpn using
      sudo pptp x.x.x.x OFFICE
   Alt Shift V closes the connection
      sudo killall -TERM ppp

When I do this (stopping pptp) I get a pptp.core in my home dir.  In
fact no matter what I try... I allways end up with a core.

I have tried:
   # as myself
   sudo killall -TERM ppp
   sudo kill -TERM `cat /var/run/tun0.pid`
   sudo killall -TERM pptp
Also tried those as root (without sudo).
I have tried all of the above after issuing the pptp command from CLI as
root.  Still no luck

I have also tried other signals (QUIT, ABRT).

So... the question is.. How am I supposed to shut down a pptp
connection?  I would like to be able to do it with sudo, or at least
some way to bind it to keys of non-root users.

Thanks,

-- 
Regards,
Eric