Hi,
I'm packaging wmppp.app 1.2 (a PPP monitoring tool that fits
on a 64x64 window) and it requieres an external program to determine
the connection speed. The sample program does this:
tac /var/log/messages | grep CONNECT | head -1
since /var/log/messages is not world readable, this program has to be
suid root, (yikes!) but on Debian, that's not a problem because it's
the same as
grep CONNECT /var/log/ppp.log | tail -1
and /var/log/ppp.log is world readable...
But the problem is I get:
[14 jacinta:~] grep -A 6 CONNECT /var/log/ppp.log | tail
May 1 16:54:37 jacinta chat[669]: expect (CONNECT)
May 1 16:54:37 jacinta chat[669]: ^M
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ATDT207-5661^M^M
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: CONNECT
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: -- got it
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: send (^M)
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: expect (name:)
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: 14400/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS^M
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ^M
May 1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ^M
(yes, I've got an 14.4 modem... I've never bothered to buy a new one)
As you can see chat breaks the CONNECT line. Is there a way to tell
the connection speed? Once on IRC I told Manoj to use $PPP_SPEED on
the ip-up/ip-down scripts, but he pointed out that that didn't report
the connection speed but the maximum speed on the line.
Is there a way out of this, or is this a case by case problem?
Thanks,
Marcelo
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