At 07:12 28/08/98 +0200, Stefan Frank wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i'm looking for a way to check within a shell script wheter a PPP connection
>is already up or not. To check for a /var/run/ppp0.pid file did not help, as
>this file is already created when the modem is still dialing my ISP's
>number. 

Try something like:  ifconfig | grep ppp0 

I used this in my ppp-on shell script - i put it in a loop with a 1 second
delay.

There is probably a better way, but it worked for me..

Regds, Peter

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