"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: > > Is there any way, using pon/poff, to be notified in the console/term of > connections and disconnections? When I type pon, I'd like to be told > when it actually finishes connecting; and when my ISP disconnects me, > I'd like to be told about it so I don't scratch my head and wonder what > happened to the server I was downloading that file from. :) How?
There are subdirectories of /etc... (uhh) /etc/ppp.d/up, /etc/ppp.d/down, or something like that -I don't have ... wait a minute, let me telnet & check... - OK! I have the Straight Dope now: In /etc/ppp, there are scripts ip-up and ip-down, which, in turn, call programs and scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d, in which you can put some script that echoes a connection notification, or executes `ifconfig ppp0` so you can see your address, or whatever you want. I haven't gotten around to it, but I want to add a script in mine that appends "domain koyote.net" and "search koyote.com" to my /etc/resolv.conf, since the configuration that comes from my ISP doesn't supply those, only the "nameserver ..." entry. -- Cc: me (I'll be off the list for the weekends) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home ph. on Q) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html RMS of Borg: "Resistance is futile; you shall be freed."