From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 13: 9:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-91.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8668B151E9 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.5]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA07245; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:58:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dev.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA35271; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:58:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@dev.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199907120558.GAA35271@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jason Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.linkup problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:23:36 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:58:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have my ppp working fine except for getting ppp.linkup to run a perl > script. I have tried looking at the samples and cant seem to get it to > work.. > FreeBSD welsh.dynip.com 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 11 > 22:01:36 EDT 1999 root@welsh.dynip.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KITTY > i386 > > here are a few of the commands that i've tried in my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup > > ! sh -c "/etc/ppp/jlclient.pl" > !bg /etc/ppp/jlclient.pl > shell /etc/ppp/jlclient.pl > > the jlclient.pl is a dynamic dns client. it runs just fine if I run it > from the command line.. I just cant get ppp.linkup to execute it.. > Ive tried it in both (demand and myaddr) sections of ppp.linkup > > any suggestions? Does your log file say anything about it when you ``set log +command'' ? Careful with the ``!'' and ``shell'' versions as ppp will wait for them to complete before continuing. If they expect to use ppp everything will hang waiting for things. > thanks and regards, > Jason > > > -- > ======================================================================= > | Jason Welsh jason@welsh.dynip.com | If you think there's | > | | good in everybody, you | > | http://welsh.dynip.com/ | haven't met everybody. | > ======================================================================= -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message