RE: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run
>From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:frodo@ccs.neu.edu]
>Sent: 03 November 1998 16:55
>To: Debian User List
>Subject: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using pon.
>I can run the script manually, and it works OK. I've read the pppd man
>page, but didn't find anything in it that mentioned anything about
>requiring this script to have certain permissions or ownership (aside from
>the obvious execute permissions). It doesn't matter if I run pon as root
>or a user; the script isn't run in either case.
>
>There are no error messages.
>
>Any ideas?
One problem I had was that the default ip-up runs the scripts in the
directory ip-up.d. *These* scripts need to be executable if they are to
run - non-executable scripts are silently ignored. OTOH, that would mean
they wouldn't run interactively, either, so this may not be your
problem...
Paul.
Reply to: