Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

[Willy Lee <willy2@jps.net>]

"Wayne" == Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net> writes:
> This may help

> ____[ cut here ]____ #!/bin/sh # Script to inform users that ppp is
> up # # Called from cron every 5 minutes

> if [ -e /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then /usr/local/bin/play
> /usr/lib/sounds/pppisup.au fi

> ____[ cut here ]____

Beauty, just what I needed, thanks.

=wl

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