Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 04:02 schrieb Raymond Page:
> Perhaps someone could inform me of the proper manner of restarting
> pppd when it does die. As it is, I do not know how to manually
> restart a connection that has died. I've tried '/usr/sbin/pppd
> call dsl-provider eth0' and that will not reestablish my
> connection. Restarting the inetd script doesn't seem to help
> either, so perhaps I'm overlooking the proper step for starting
> and restarting the pppd in the first place?
ifup ppp0
kp
>
> 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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