**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
Hello vinod, good-evening. This is quite simple. Just go thro the post dial ppp scripts. This should solve your issue. /etc/ppp/ip-up /etc/ppp/ip-down This should do the job mighty well. Just read them well and back 'em up before you start on anything adventurous. Bye for now. Trevor On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:21, Vinod wrote: > **************************************** > * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI > **************************************** > > Hi friends, > > When I connect to net through a modem, I can check whether ppp0 is > active or not using ifconfig command so that it will list the status of > ppp0. > > My problem is I had set a command in crontab as follows. > > lynx -dump www.lcnet.com/update.php (A module to update the web mysql > database) > > Above script has to work and update only if ppp0 is active. > > How can I check whether ppp0 is active (A script has to check and then > if the status is true, update.php module has to execute). > > Please suggest me how to go about. > > I had put six to seven commands in a batch file and the batch file name > is given in crontab. I am using wvdialer to connect to net and it > redials if connection disconnect. and if I specify the dialing command > "wvdial redial" in the batchfile, then the subsequent command in the > batch file are not executing. > > > Regards, > > Vinod. > > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
