Re: ppp

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> I have a shell script which connects me to the internet with ppp. Also in
> this script I would like to add fetchmail, sendmail -q, and rdate but
> because pppd detaches so quickly it tries to execute these commands before
> it has finished dialling/authenticating. Is there an easy & neat way to make
> it wait until the link is established?
> 

pppd executes the script typically in /etc/ppp/ip-up once the connection
is made. Put your sendmail -q and rdate or ntpdate stuff in there. It also
executes /etc/ppp/ip-down when the line goes down. (I have no docs to
hand, so am going on memory - could be faulty as to exact names).



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