Bug#5014: diald won't do what I want

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

It sure does! Diald is ultra-configurable. Perl's "there's more than one way"
definetely applies.

But I tend to leave the config script alone, and communicate with diald via
the FIFO option; see the manpage for details. Alternatively, you can use
signals.

I enclose a script "dial" which you can use in crontab as 

	dial force; mirror <whatever>; dial unforce

and which the diald maintainer might want to add. My /etc/diald.options has 

	fifo /etc/diald/diald.fifo      

and I created a fifo of that name in the said directory.

So here's the script. One fringe benefit of it is that pppd can stay
root-only because dial and diald provide nicely configurable user-level
access.

#!/bin/sh
#
# dial --- communicate via fifo `/etc/diald.fifo' with the diald daemon
#
# edd	12 Jul 96
# edd	18 Oct 96	moved the fifo to /etc/diald/diald.fifo

if [ $# -ne 1 ] 
then
    echo "Usage: dial <command>"
    exit 1
fi
  
dialdfifo=/etc/diald/diald.fifo

case "$1" in
    block|unblock|force|unforce|down|up|delay-quit|quit|reset|queue)
	echo $1 >> $dialdfifo
	;;
    *)
	echo "Unknown (or unsupported) command: $1"
	exit 1
	;;
esac

exit 0





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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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