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To: "Stan Brown" <stanb@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Still trying to invoke a script on ijppp linkup 
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:11:15 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 	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"

This will attempt to execute a program called "echo HISADDR > 
/tmp/addr" - not really what you're looking for ;-)

You really want:

  shell sh -c "echo HISADDR > /tmp/addr"

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