On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I'm using PPP at the command line to connect to my ISP. Sometimes it is
> very slow or worst it picks up the phone but does not make a connection.
>
> Does anyone have a script to delay my fetchpop & sendmails commands until
> there is a connection? Perhaps checks for a connection before it runs the
> rest of my script? Right now I first run ppp-on and then (by hand) run the
> rest of my script.
Put your script in /etc/ppp/ip-up. It will be run automatically by pppd
once the link is up and packets are being exchanged.
See man pppd(8) for details.
Phil
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