Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:28:49 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: francisco@natserv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to tell if connected to internet? Message-ID: <19980919212849.A10391@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199809191720.NAA14305@federation.addy.com> References: <199809191720.NAA14305@federation.addy.com>
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Francisco Reyes wrote: > What command can I use to tell if I am connected to the internet? > I found "show ipcp" in ppp, but I am looking for something that would > either return 0/1 or that I could call on shell script and parse the > status. Put in ppp.linkup: !bg touch /tmp/ppp-online Put in ppp.linkdown !bg rm -f /tmp/ppp-online Then, to check if you are online $ test -f /tmp/ppp-online There may be better ways, but this seems fairly reliable and simple to check from a shell script. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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