Re: run-parts

[Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net>]

Thanks Brian.  I'll keep this for reference. BTW, the
script /etc/ppp/ip-up exports the dynamic address as
PPP_LOCAL.  Should I not be able to use that in my
script?
export PPP_IFACE PPP_TTY PPP_SPEED PPP_LOCAL PPP_REMOTE PPP_IPPARAM

Thanks again,
  Russ

On 30 Dec 2002, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:

> Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net> writes:
>
> > I named the script mail_ppp.  It's purpose is to email
> > my dynamic address to a specific email address after
> > dial up, so I can access my network from remote locations.
>
> I did this with the following script.  The IP address part may be
> ugly, but it works.  The script sleeps 5 minutes in order to let
> fetchmail get mail and allow my use of the SMTP server.  This has been
> working for me for a while.
>
>
> b:/etc/ppp/ip-up.d$ cat 50mail_ip
> #!/bin/sh
> # send ip when DSL comes up
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>
> IPADDR=`ifconfig ppp0 | awk '{print $2}' | grep addr | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
>
> sleep 5m
> echo $IPADDR | mail name@provider.com
>
>
> This script is in the ip-up.d directory and has the same permissions
> and ownership as the other files there.  I hope this helps.
>
> Brian
>
>
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