I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me how to adapt this to
RH6.1.
Thanks in advance.
Frank Roberts
Scott Felton wrote:
> In Slackware 3.6 I had always run a script called "keepalive.sh" that
> keeps my ISP connection up. I stole it from the Dynamic-IP-Hacks
> mini-HOWTO. It runs from root's crontab.
>
> Now that I've upgraded to Slackware 7.0 it doesn't seem to work and I
> get this error in my root mailfile (now that I stopped redirecting it
> to /dev/null)...
>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: cron: /sbin/keepalive.sh
> >
> > /sbin/keepalive.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
> > /sbin/keepalive.sh: line 8: `else'
>
> Here is the shell script pasted from an xterm...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Script to keep the ppp0 port up by pinging and then grepping results
> #
> if [ -f /var/run/ppp0.pid ] ; then
> ping -c5 -l3 204.249.184.2 2>&1 | grep "0 packets" > /dev/null && \
> { /usr/sbin/ppp-off > /dev/null 2>&1 ; sleep 2 ; /usr/sbin/ppp-go }
> else
> /usr/sbin/ppp-go
> fi
> # Done
>
> I think it is a verbatim copy of the example in the mini-HOWTO except
> I use ppp-go and ppp-off and like I said, I think it worked fine in my
> old setup. Can anyone spot what is wrong and why bash is complaining?
> Thanks...
>
> --
> Scott Felton WF3R
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.k3ir.ampr.org
> Slackware Linux
