On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote:
>
> nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local
> #!/bin/sh
> echo 'status online' >/home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo
> nimrodm:~$
>
> nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
> #!/bin/sh
> echo 'status offline' >/home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo
> nimrodm:~$
>
> That's how it's done for Licq ($HOME/.licq/licq_fifo is a named pipe).
What happens when licq isn't running and reading the pipe?
Unless I'm mistaken, your ip-*.local scripts would block, which
is probably not what you want.
Also, what does putting the data on a pipe get you? The process
would still have to poll the pipe, wouldn't it?
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