There are some options on pppd that allow you to execute scripts. One command executes a script once the PPP connection is made, and the other is executed when the PPP connection goes down. I think the options are "ip-up" and "ip-down". I don't have a Linux system to look at the pppd man pages to make sure I'm 100% correct on the option names. I'm not sure how this affects the use of the SuSE PPP scripts as I use diald in conjunction with pppd instead. When I ran a Slackware system I had to run chat and pppd directly from a script and so that why I know the options I mention exist in some form with pppd. Tony Steve Crane wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am running SuSE 5.3 and have become quite tired of using Netscape > Communicator for e-mail. I am now using sendmail and fetchmail with > mutt. I have created the following script: > > /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up generic > sendmail -q > fetchmail -v >> /var/log/fetchmail > /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-down > > to send and receive but it has a problem. The commands after the ppp-up > execute immediately and the entire script finishes (with errors from > sendmail & procmail) before the modem even begins to connect. > > How can I pause the script and test that the connection was made before > continuing with execution? > > --- > Steve Crane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.datapro.co.za/~stevec > -- > To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the > archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html -- Tony Schlemmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sequeltech.com -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
