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Re: Check for ppp connexion in script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Wed Nov 18 03:05:49 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:06:26 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981117194610.31853A-100000@localhost>; from Rick L. Mantooth on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 07:51:05PM -0600
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On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 07:51:05PM -0600, Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
> Zoki,
> Here is the begining of my checkmail script:
And another way to do it is to grep for:
Point-Point Protocol
in the output of ifconfig, something like:
grout=`ifconfig | grep "Point-Point Protocol"`
if [ grout ] # found it!
then
# do your stuff here
fi
but note that's off the top of my head.
I've got a script I run from cron which starts ppp, waits for it to come
up then fires up some program to make use of it. I can show it to you if
you want. Let me know by private e-mail if you want to see it.
Fred
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Zoki wrote:
>
> > Since I've scripts as cronjobs to take care of mail I 'm having the
> > annoying experience that the scripts try to make a connection even if I'm
> > allready on line. What I would like to do is make the script check if
> > there is a connection and if so skip the dialing and go straight to
> > downloading and sending mail. I checked in the archives but couldn't find
> > the answer to this question. I've an idea I should work with grep but
> > since I never used it, I don't know its "grammar".
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Zoki.
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