second try at posting, hope I get this one correct.
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On Thu, 21 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It worked; thanks!
>
> -JC
>
> P.S. one other thing, to the list.. anyone know of a program that will
> feed me *just* the IP address, so I don't have to do the "ifconfig.."
> mess?
>
in the file /etc/ppp/ip-up:
cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e
It worked; thanks!
-JC
P.S. one other thing, to the list.. anyone know of a program that will
feed me *just* the IP address, so I don't have to do the "ifconfig.."
mess?
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
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> > if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
> > IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut
> if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
> IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -c 23-34`
> cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e s/--IP--/$IP/g > /etc/hosts
> fi
>
> If I execute the second and third lines, one at a time, from the command
> line myself, they work perfectly. But if I run them in a sc
I'm using RH 5.0, and I have a dial-up connection to the Net. When I dial
in, I run a script containing these lines, to update my /etc/hosts:
if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -c 23-34`
cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e s/--IP--/$IP/g > /etc/hosts
fi
If I
