Triggering a program to quit

Question

I connect to a VPN using the built in Apple VPN client. Occasionally, the client disconnects for whatever reason, and what I want to do is have a program quit when this happens. Any ideas? Could I do this with Applescript? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways of doing this.
It's tricky to get an AppleScript to run on an event, but it shouldn't be too hard to have a background AppleScript periodically check the link and take action when the link changes.
This script can be saved as an application and when it's opened it will check the state of the VPN connection and quit the specified app if the VPN is down:
<pre class=command>tell application "Internet Connect"
set VPNStatus to status of L2TP configuration "My VPN" -- change name as appropriate
if state of VPNStatus is 0 then -- VPN is down
tell application "Some Other App" to quit
end if
end tell</pre>