Re: strange pppd question

[Don Strayer <dstrayer@sadt.com>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:11:13AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> 
> > So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link?  Perhaps I'm
> > being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it
> 
> Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to send SIGUSR1 to your program (create a
> pid file in /var/run so the script can find you). This way, your program
> just waits til it gets SIGUSR1 before tearing down the eth0 route.

I haven't tried it, but couldn't you just use the "nodetach" option
on pppd so it doesn't fork into the background?

-- 
Don Strayer