Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Need UUCP tools for Sun III/3.2 unix... Message-ID: <2373@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 02:09:18 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2373 Posted: Tue Jul 7 02:09:18 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 06:28:34 EDT References: <1238@potomac.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 17 Xref: mnetor comp.sources.wanted:1529 comp.unix.questions:3112 comp.unix.wizards:3145 jtn@potomac.UUCP (John T. Nelson) wrote: > Our site talks across country via UUCP with our home office on the > West Coast. Sometimes the line is left off hook when the converstaion > closes. As a result we are racking up monumental long-distance phone > bills. > What I'm looking for is a set of tools or program that will: > 1) Terminate any "useless" tip or uucp processes and... > 2) Hang up the call that was on the modem. I have posted a shell script, zapcall, that does something like this, to alt.sources. It terminates any call in progress with a particular site. I use it at 7AM to avoid running up PC Pursuit bills. Others could use it at 8AM to avoid running up telco bills when the rates change. -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet.