Re: ppp

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
>I have a shell script which connects me to the internet with ppp. Also in
>this script I would like to add fetchmail, sendmail -q, and rdate but
>because pppd detaches so quickly it tries to execute these commands before
>it has finished dialling/authenticating. Is there an easy & neat way to make
>it wait until the link is established?

Put these commands in ip-up (or ip-up.local if you are using RH)
and they will execute after the link comes up.

atb

Martin
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