Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:42:44 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: starting ppp on boot up Message-ID: <20021220183045.G934-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20021220152406.B29073@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:31:20PM +0000, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> > In the meantime I found # man and copied/edited this
> > - working - /usr/local/etc/rc.d - script:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > #!/bin/sh -
> > #
> > # initialization/shutdown script for pppd
> > case "$1" in
> > start)
> > /usr/sbin/ppp -nat -ddial adsl && echo -n ' pppd'
> > ;;
> > stop)
> > kill `cat /var/run/foo.pid` && echo -n ' pppd'
^^^
Thanks Scott, now that you explained what this thing should do I
found out that it should be
kill ... /tun*.pid ...
Uli.
> > ;;
> > *)
> > echo "unknown option: $1 - should be 'start' or 'stop'" >&2
> > ;;
> > esac
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > Does this do anything substantially different to your idea?
>
> No -- I expect that the command line actually executed will be the same in
> either case.
>
> I guess the advantage of the script is that you have the 'stop' option as
> well, which you don't get with rc.conf. On the other hand, it's one more
> script you have to maintain.
>
> Personally I'd go with the rc.conf variables and use pppctl to shut down
> the daemon if I ever needed to, but I think it's down to personal
> preference at this point.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
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