On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
>
> > What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
> > connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
> > mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
> > (actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go offline, and
> > allow me to override, but that's not too hard).
>
> Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
> query script) as the last item in ip-up.
Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' -
so the leading 'z' puts the file at the end of the directory listing.
'run-parts' runs the scripts alphabetically AFAIK.
You could put some sort of file checking functionality into the script to
decide if it should disconnect. Similar to the no-ppp-on-boot system.
HTH,
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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