On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:02:40PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until > > that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will > > never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file. > > That makes good sense. I never thought about doing it that way (and don't > have the foggiest idea how. > > Craig Sanders sent me what looks like some good advice but I haven't > figured out how to implement it. I will take a moment to figure it out > before asking any silly questions :) > > I did notice that I am using a script called 'ppp-on' instead of 'ip-up' > so I have to wonder if that is part of the cause of my confusion. > > If I had a way to make the ppp-on script wait until the connection was > established before going on past > > exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/ttyS1 38400 \ > asyncmap 20A0000 escape FF kdebug 0 $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \ > noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT > > to the rest of the script, I could just put tail in after the line above > and it wouldn't be run until the connection was established (and the > information was in /var/log/messages).
Even better -- ip-up is run by pppd once you are connected, independent of how pppd was started. It passes the IP address of the connection (among other things) as command line parameters. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
