On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:11:13AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm > > being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it > > Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to send SIGUSR1 to your program (create a > pid file in /var/run so the script can find you). This way, your program > just waits til it gets SIGUSR1 before tearing down the eth0 route.
I haven't tried it, but couldn't you just use the "nodetach" option on pppd so it doesn't fork into the background? -- Don Strayer
