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Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior



On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

>      The pppd man pages say that the ip-up and ip-down scripts are
> executed with "standard input, output and error streams redirected
> to /dev/null." 
> 
>      I would like to use these scripts, but I want them to echo
> messages to the console.  How can I overcome this redirection to
> /dev/null?

A solution may be saving the tty when starting the connection
("tty > /tmp/ppp-tty"), and use redirection in ip-up and ip-down
("echo xxxxxxxxx > `cat /tmp/ppp-tty`").

Ciao

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