**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:25 am, Vinod wrote: > Dear Bhargav, > if ppp0 is not active, > > the line ifconfig ppp0 > temp shows error. Yes, and the temp file is created as empty. > what does [-z temp] function do ? It evaluates to true if the file size is 0 (in the case of ppp0 being down) But this seems to be a bit overkill. The approach others suggested seems simpler to implement and less prone to syntactic error. Try going with that. :-) -- Bhargav Bhatt, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. -- "If English was commutative, we could all talk like Yoda." - Anonymous. -- http://www.columbia.edu/~bbb2004 -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
