Re: Re: ipupload

[Paolo Pedaletti <paolo.pedaletti@flashnet.it>]

Ciao Eric G . Miller,

 > > file to my website. But when I disconnect I can execute another script
 > > in ip-down.d because I use 'kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.d`' which is not a
 > > proper downing of route ppp0. 
 > 
 >   Since the ip-down script run *after* the link goes down, you obviously
 >   can't put the script there. 

I have modified ip-up and poff script:

ip-up:
....
# Main Script starts here

run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
run-parts /etc/ppp/online

Inside online:
/etc/ppp/online$ dir
-rwxrwx---   1 root     dialout       141 May  1 15:11 00*
-rwxrwx---   1 root     dialout       690 Jul 23 14:41 fetchmail*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          327 Oct  6 13:48 postfix*
-rwxrwx---   1 root     dialout      1128 Oct  8 23:48 slrnpull*
-rwxrwx---   1 root     dialout       184 Oct 21 03:06 zz*

so after running programs in ip-up.d, I run programs in online... ***

poff:
...
run-parts /etc/ppp/online

# Lets see how many pppds are running....
#set -- `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid 2>&1 /var/log/PPP.log`

case $# in
  0) # pppd only creates a pid file once ppp is up, so let's try killing pppd
...


*** ... the same programs that I run BEFORE killing pppd.


So it works like this:

pon
	ip-up.d
	* online *
poff
	* online *
	ip-down.d

If you want to update your network-state on a web-page, using the same
script "/etc/ppp/online/update-my-web-page" you can chek the presence of
ip-up/pon or ip-down/poff in memory:

#!/bin/sh
# update-my-web-page

if [ "`pidof pon`" ] ; then
	echo "Going online ..."
	/usr/local/script/upload-online-web-page
else
   if [ "`pidof poff`" ] ; then
	echo "Going offline ..."
	/usr/local/script/upload-offline-web-page
else
        echo "What are you doing?"
fi
fi

if [ "`pidof gdm`" ] ; then
	echo "GDM running ... did you know? :-)"
fi

Ciao

BTW.... I don't like run-parts.
I dont' understand why a so trivial task must be done by a binary.
It' equivalent to 3-line script:

for FILE in `ls /etc/ppp/online` ; do
	. /etc/ppp/online/$FILE
done

or no?

-- 

Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa
paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it

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