Erich Titl wrote: > Richard Saunders wrote: >> Is it possible just to insert a pause somewhere in the startup scripts >> to wait for ppp0 >> to come up before continuing? > > Yes, that was my first aproach, unfortunately not a very smart one, as, > for example, ppp may take a very long time to come up. >
while true; do ip link ls dev ppp0 > /dev/null 2>&1 && break echo "Waiting for ppp0 to come up..." sleep 5 done -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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