Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

[Jason McCarty <bclg@iup.edu>]

> else? I thought I could start writing information to a file as soon
> as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or
> anything else, no information would be written to the file. Can I do
> it in a script?

Try parsing the end of /var/log/ppp-connect-errors and/or
/var/log/syslog. Daemons will typically report their status in
/var/log/syslog, and some other logfiles, depending on your syslogd
config.

Good luck,

Jason

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