Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:40:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: where to put pppd startup script ???? rc.conf ??? Message-ID: <XFMail.010730154041.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010730225150.33089@caamora.com.au>
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On 30-Jul-01 jonathan michaels wrote:
> greetings all
>
> i've been using kernel ppp (aka pppd) for a while now and was watching
> a power-outage recovery during one of teh bad storms (losts of very
> cold winds and rain, thankfully no lightening) we have had here in a
> while.
>
> currently, i start pppd with a script (by hand mainly) but the machine
> has been stable (its on a small ups, local australian product and i'm
> not a programmer so i've not worked out how to rejig teh many ups c
> sources to make my sola work with with any of the american ones that
> teh programes are written for). sorry i digress.
Get hands on Ted Mittelstaedts book "The FreeBSD corporate guide". He describes
a DIY method that let external ups signal by the CD (i think) signal of the
serial port. Mail me if you need more details, I don't have the book here right
now.
>
> where, would the pppd startup segment be best put in rc.local ?
> rc.network or rc.conf ???? i tried with rc.network but got a hung
> computer -- i tried reading up on teh booting process but the general
> "Unix" book was more a tome on sys V r3.2 than a text on berkeley unix
Put the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, preferably modified to accept
[start|stop] parameters. As depicted in rc(8)
#!/bin/sh -
#
# initialization/shutdown script for foobar package
case "$1" in
start)
/usr/local/sbin/foo -d && echo -n ' foo'
;;
*)
echo "unknown option: $1 - should be 'start'" >&2
;;
esac
/micke (again:)
>
> some sugestions thoughts cc's appreciated (jlm at caamora dot com dot au)
> as i'm not subscribed to -questions anymore.
>
> also can anyone recommend a book to read up on topics like this (i have
> teh greg lehey tomes, one through 2 and a ed 3 somewhere).
>
> with regards and much thanks
>
> jonathan
>
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