From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 9:58: 4 1999 Received: from void.agames.com (gate-void.agames.com [192.245.82.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16063 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schluntz@pacbell.net) Received: from [192.245.82.126] (wintermute.agames.com [192.245.82.126]) by void.agames.com with SMTP id JAA12548; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:57:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902161757.JAA12548@void.agames.com> Subject: RE: Help with user ppp and launching a script Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:00:50 -0800 x-sender: schluntz@postoffice.pacbell.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" To: "Christopher Michaels" , "FreeBSD Questions " Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm not too sure about answering 100% of your question, but you should be >able to do something along the lines of the following. > #1 in /etc/ppp/ you can have a file called ppp.linkup. Just add a section >for your isp with the same name as your section in ppp.conf I believe this is the bit of info I was missing. So if I make an entry in the file called ppp.linkup I can have it call a script to do the rest of the work? That would be perfict! Is there a way to run another script when the link goes down? > #2 i suppose you could write a script that parses the output of the >nslookup or host commands and then uses the hostname -s command. > #3 then if you kill -HUP sendmail to reread it's configuration it MAY >pickup the different hostname. That's not a big problem. The system doesn't run X so I should be able to change the host name on the fly. Thanks for your help! -Sean >It all sounds good on paper but honestly don't know if it'll work in >practice. Hopefully this will put you on the right track, or at the very >least someone else on the list will add more info to this posting. > >-Chris > >> Is there any way to launch a script from the user ppp after it connects? >> Here's my problem: --- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@agames.com Sr. Office Systems Administrator 408-434-5804 Atari Games Corporation http://www.agames.com Mountain Dew and doughnuts...because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. - ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message