Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

* Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:51:00AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> 
>> > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My
>> > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it
>> > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command
>> 
>> Isn't your filename wrong?
>> 
>> /etc/ppp/ip-up

> But the /etc/ppp/ip-up script calls run-parts on /etc/ppp/ip-up.d,
> which should mean that all the scripts in there get run when ip-up runs.
> It's done that way so that you can put in separate scripts for everything
> to run on connection, eg fetchmail, new routes etc.

Yes, but maybe he wasn´t so wrong after all:

man run-parts
| 	 Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters,
| 	 digits, under­ scores, and hyphens.  Subdirectories of directory
| 	 and files with other names will be silently ignored.

Maybe that is it?

Cheers,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>