On Sat Dec 13 08:21:36 EST 2003, Henning Jebsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Raymond,I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies.I got another approach than using inittab/respawn.
You simple could do a tail -f onto /var/log/messages and then search for a specific string. The search is done by
awk in my case.
I use that method for all kinds of messages, I want to be tracked.
My script goes like this: tail --retry -f /var/log/messages | awk '{ do anything }'
If awk finds that string it will restart pppd, or whatever you need.
This works -of.course- only if pppd writes someting into /var/log/messages if the connection state changes. I think, pppd does write something into the logfile. Think of increasing the debug level ;-).
This way is fast,flexible and doesn't consume much ressources, I like it ;-)
bye
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