Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:06:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.com> Subject: Re: Still trying to invoke a script on ijppp linkup Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970712170536.17362A-100000@kona.javanet.com> In-Reply-To: <199707121914.MAA04801@freefall.freebsd.org>
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I think you need to get the latest version of ppp for the scripts to run
correctly. (the 970701 or something like that) available at Brian's site.
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
> I am still thashing around with trying to execute an arbitray shell
> script when ijppp links up to my ISP. Acording to the man page for the
> vesrion found at http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/. I should be able to
> use the "shell" keyword, So i put the following in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
>
> shell "echo HISADDR > /tmp/addr"
>
> Nothig happende, not even the creation of the file in /tmp. The version
> of ppp that I am runing is :
>
> /usr/sbin/ppp
> uucplock.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
>
> Is my syntax wrong? Can this not be in the ppp.linkup file ? Is the
> version of ppp that I am runing to early to support this?
>
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