Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-18 Thread Don Strayer
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:11:13AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm > > being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it > > Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: : On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) : : Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using : cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually : works pretty

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually works pretty well! > that mon

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 12:52:03AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) > > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the > next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials > a provider when the connection goes

strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and