On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:11:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Martin Bialasinski writes: > > When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to > > make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the > > dynip service to tell them I am going offline" doesn't work.
You could have poff call some program and waits for it to exit before it takes the link down. I think this technique is called a wrapper. So you move poff to poff.real and create a new poff that tells your service you are going offline, then calls poff.real > > A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run "ip-about-to-go-up" and > "ip-about-to-go-down" scripts, but so far as I know nothing was ever done > about it. The best solution I can think of off the top of my head is to > run pppd under the control of a script that would do stuff like this before > shutting it down. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>