Re: [arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nelson Marambio <nelsonmarambio@gmx.de> wrote:

Dear list,

I try to write a small shellscript that (dis-)connects me with / from the WLAN of my university.

I use wpa_supplicant in combination with the -B switch to establish the connection. After a pause of 10 seconds I pull an IP address by calling dhcpcd.

My question (in context of the wlan-disconnect-script): how can I exit wpa_supplicant if it runs in the background ? Up to now it's done by "sudo killall wpa_supplicant" but I guess it's not the best way.

I suggest "wpa_cli terminate". See the wpa_cli manpage.