Rick, Ok, /var/log/ppp.log has more information that you need, as you said in the last message...
But I realize that a script that checks if "ifconfig|grep ppp0" returns a line would not only work when you're checking the connection right after calling pon, but it could also be called from Emacs (I've checked your message - you use VM, right?), if you want to know if the connection is still alive: you'd just have to bind it to a key combination... Would this work? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
