Re: ppp and ip-up.d, ip-down.d

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Marc Haber wrote:
  >>On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:10:06PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
  >>> As you see, ip-up and ip-down export $PPP_OPERATION which is either
  >>> "up" or "down" and proceed to call run-parts /etc/ppp/ip.d.
  >>
  >>What about passing "up" and "down" as first argument. This is more likely t
      >he
  >>init-scripts of SysV-Init...

If you are using the standard names, ip-up and ip-down, you do not need
to pass parameters or set environmental variables; simply examine the
first value of the argument list to see which you have:

prog=`basename $0`
if [ $prog = ip-up ] 
then
	# Up actions
elif [ $prog = ip-down ]
then
	# Down actions
else
	echo "Script called with unrecognised name: call it ip-up or ip-down"
	exit 1
end

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