On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 01:08:18AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> 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?
Probably wan't to make sure you've got an address. Here's one variant.
$ /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr:' | sed 's=.*inet
addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='
That's all one line. It shouldn't return anything if you don't have an
inet addr for ppp0. Otherwise, it'll return the address.
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