that's fine, I don't ... <sniff> care that you did not <sniff> use my
suggestion.
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Thanks go out to everyone having answered this question. I've had many
> alternative solutions proposed.
>
> In fact, I chose to ask 'route' for the information. (Courtesy, Edward
> Dekkers.)
>
> Thanks again for all your help. You're a fantastic source of knowledge
> with a remarkable willingness to share your experiences.
>
> Regards
> Gustav
>
> Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know I've seen a recipe for this somewhere sometime.
> >
> > I want to let cron execute a script on regular intervals. This script
> > shall look upon the state of my serial port ppp0. If ppp0 is up, then
> > certain commands should be executed, otherwise not.
> >
> > I know that I could use ip-up and ip-down to write some 'indicator file'
> > that I can let my new script read and interpret.
> >
> > But...
> >
> > I have seen a very elegant solution described (unfortunately I can't
> > find it back) where the script looked upon something in the system to
> > find out the state of ppp0. May eventually have been something under
> > /dev but I really don't remember.
> >
> > Anyone understand what I'm talking about? ;-)
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas of how to realize this?
> >
> > Best regards
> > Gustav
>
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