Dave,
in a shell script, the environment variable "$?" has the value of
the exit status of the last foreground command executed.
So if you find the script which runs pppd, then "echo $?" just after
it will show the pppd exit status.
Brian
At 10:58 AM 16/02/2000 +1100, Davo wrote:
>G'day folks,
> just wondering if anyone can tell me how to find the exit status of a
>pppd process that has finished on our server. As many users log in to us, of
>course there are many pppd processes hanging around. Basically I would
like to
>know why the connection was dropped and it appears as though the exit status
>will reveal all.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Dave.
>
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