Richard Saunders wrote:
> Thanks Tom and Eric
> I don't know if it matters to me how long it takes to come up, so long
> as everything that is supposed to work works once it's up.
> When ppp0 is up its a router, until then it's lump of useless metal
> chewing power.
> I have put the loop here:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # IPsec startup and shutdown script
> # Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001  Henry Spencer.
> 
> /..SNIP
> 
> # misc setup
> umask 022
> 
> while true; do
>         ip link ls dev ppp0 > /dev/null 2>&1 && break
>         echo "Waiting for ppp0 to come up..."
>         sleep 5
> done
> 
> # do it
> case "$1" in
>   start|--start|stop|--stop)
> 
> Is this alright? I won't get to test it until I can reboot on the weekend.

Give it a chance to barf in the loop to tell you what is wrong.

Erich



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