On Mar 12, at 12:57 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> My mom uses FreeBSD. More precisely, she uses Pine to send/receive
> email. At present, she has a DSL connection. She's soon to change
> to a dial up account.
>
> What I'm planning to do is provide her with a shell script which will
> send/receive email for her. She'll run it to check for mail and when
> she's done composing her outgoing mail.
>
> My initial untested idea is:
>
> - ppp --dial HerISP,
> - wait for the connection to come up
I can get you this far.
> - kill the connection
This one, too. See the attached script.
Note that I had to hack some files in /etc/ppp to get things to work right
(auto-dialup when anything WAN-related happens). If you want these too,
I can supply them, but I have to wonder if the list is the right forum?
I used kernel-mode PPP, BTW.
> Cheers
> --
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
Dave
--
Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
#!/bin/sh
#
# EZ interface to pppctl. Supports connecting, disconnecting, setting the
# timeout value, showing the bundle, and testing the line (the last returns
# 0 if line up, the others return undefined).
# for cron
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
# defined in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
COMMCHNL=/var/run/ppp
TIMEOUT=180
NOISY=-v
test_up ()
{
pppctl -v $COMMCHNL quit 2>/dev/null |grep ^PPP >/dev/null
return $?
}
syntax ()
{
echo "usage: "${0##*/}" -c|-d|-s|-v [-t timeout] [-q]"
echo " -c, -d, and -t always set a timeout (default="$TIMEOUT")"
exit
}
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
syntax
fi
while getopts "cdqst:v" OPT; do
case $OPT in
c) FLAG=c;;
d) FLAG=d;;
q) NOISY=;;
s) FLAG=s;;
t) TIME=$OPTARG;;
v) FLAG=v;;
*) syntax;;
esac
done
if [ "$TIME" -o "$FLAG" -a "$FLAG" != "v" -a "$FLAG" != "s" ]; then
if [ "$TIME" ]; then
TIMEOUT=$TIME
fi
pppctl $NOISY $COMMCHNL set timeout $TIMEOUT
fi
case $FLAG in
c) test_up;
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
if [ "$NOISY" ]; then
echo "Line is up"
fi
exit
fi;
exec pppctl $NOISY $COMMCHNL dial;;
d) exec pppctl $NOISY $COMMCHNL close;;
s) exec pppctl $NOISY $COMMCHNL show bundle;;
v) test_up;
RETVAL=$?;
if [ "$NOISY" ]; then
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Line is up"
else
echo "Line is down"
fi
fi;
exit $RETVAL;;
esac
