Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:41:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Frank Griffith" <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.linkup during reboot Message-ID: <199810081541.QAA00913@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:27:51 CDT." <000701bdf228$93b70260$dcf6a2a5@fgriffth.ctxmort.com>
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> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7 on a Pentium computer with=20
> ppp and Apache. I have a command in my ppp.linkup=20
> file to run a script which ftp's a file up to another server=20
> on the web each time a connection is made with my ISP.=20
> When the server reboots, I have commands in the /etc/rc.local=20
> file to run ppp -auto -alias my_isp and start Apache. Problem=20
> is, when the server reboots, ppp and Apache start okay, but the=20
> command in my ppp.linkup file does not execute. In other=20
> words, my file does not get ftp'ed up to the other server unless=20
> I manually login and run the script myself.
>
> When I manually login and run ppp the ppp.linkup file runs=20
> the desired script without a problem. It is only when the=20
> server reboots and no one is there to login that the ppp.linkup=20
> file fails to execute. Anyone have an idea on this?
Have you enabled command logging to prove that ppp.linkup isn't being
executed (try ``set log phase lcp ipcp command'') ?
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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