:: Rick Hayner writes: > Hello to all here.
> Sunday when we were configuring my dial up connection, I had to pick > up the receiver of the phone connected to my modem to know that the > connection had failed. I don't know how others determine whether > things have connected alright or not, but I wrote scripts in the > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory, and they were run, but did not display the > local ip and remote ip addresses like I wanted. Modifying the pon > script so that pppd was run with the -detach option and using & to put > it in the background solved this problem for me. If anyone has a > better suggestion, I'd like to hear about it. I use gkrellm to check if the connection is still alive. So far, it worked perfectly, and it also shows me some other useful information. When I need more information, less /var/log/ppp.log or tail -f /var/log/ppp.log are usually all I need... > Thanks for reading this. You are welcome! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
