From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 14:06:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19853 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19846 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kona.javanet.com (kona.javanet.com [205.219.162.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05173 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (harpo@localhost) by kona.javanet.com (8.8.5/8.7) with SMTP id RAA13997; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:06:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Szumowski To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Still trying to invoke a script on ijppp linkup In-Reply-To: <199707121914.MAA04801@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. =---------------------------------------------------------= John Szumowski - harpo (at) javanet (dot) com =---------------------------------------------------------= http://www.javanet.com/~harpo 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? > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. >