>From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 03 November 1998 16:55 >To: Debian User List >Subject: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using pon. >I can run the script manually, and it works OK. I've read the pppd man >page, but didn't find anything in it that mentioned anything about >requiring this script to have certain permissions or ownership (aside from >the obvious execute permissions). It doesn't matter if I run pon as root >or a user; the script isn't run in either case. > >There are no error messages. > >Any ideas?
One problem I had was that the default ip-up runs the scripts in the directory ip-up.d. *These* scripts need to be executable if they are to run - non-executable scripts are silently ignored. OTOH, that would mean they wouldn't run interactively, either, so this may not be your problem... Paul.
