RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
>From: Michael Beattie[SMTP:mickyb@es.co.nz]
>On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
>> Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
>> query script) as the last item in ip-up.
>
>Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' -
>so the leading 'z' puts the file at the end of the directory listing.
>'run-parts' runs the scripts alphabetically AFAIK.
Does this imply that the ip-up.d scripts are run in sequence? That's a
bit annoying - I was hoping to add a few mirrorring scripts in there
which would run alongside my news download - would they wait for
slrnpull to finish?
Paul.
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