Hi Kevin, You're 100% correct. I just checked from my room-mates computer which dials up into a different ISP, and found that the page was not updated by ip-down.d.
I suppose I'll do the same thing you did and write a new poff script. Thanks for pointing that out. --D > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin A. Foss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 3:30 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: automagic ftp sessions? > > > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 11:34:13AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > > Thanks for the script. I modified it slightly and now it posts > > my dynamic ip address where friends can look it up. It runs in > > ip-up.d. Then, ip-down.d puts "i'm offline" in the same file. > > Does this work -- the last part I mean? I always thought the > scripts in ip-down.d were run after the connection was brought down, > which makes it difficult to upload anything. Or has the behavior of > pppd changed recently? > > I wanted to do the same thing and ended up writing a script that I > run in lieu of poff which makes the "I'm offline" upload and then > runs poff. > > -Kevin > -- > Kevin A. Foss ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >