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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Telling if User PPP is up or down
To: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:49:16 -0700 (MST)
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> Is there a way to determine (from a shell script) if the
> user-process PPP daemon currently has the line up or down when using
> dial-on-demand PPP?  

#!/bin/sh
#
# pppup

ps -gax | grep -v grep | grep ppp
if test "$?" = "0"
then
	echo "yes"
else
	echo "no"
fi


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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