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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp -> shell script problems
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:24:39 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33C34EAC.41C67EA6@javanet.com>,
Jack <harpo@javanet.com> writes:
> I'm having a little more trouble than I anticipated calling a shell
> script from my ppp.linkup. In essence, what I want to do is get the
> value in MYADDR into a text file, say ~/data which I can then upload to
> my isp shell account, so I can access this machine from the outside
> world (dynamic ip).
> I'm running FBSD 2.1.5 with PPP-2.2-970629 installed.
> Here's the relavent line from /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup:
> ! sh -c "/usr/home/jack/ipinfo MYADDR > /usr/home/jack/data &"
> (This is the last line in ppp.linkup)
> --
> ipinfo is very simple so far:
> #!/bin/sh
> echo My current IP address is $1
> ---
>
> I don't think sh likes the "-c" option. In fact, I didn't see it listed
> under my man pages! I've tried "-x" as well, but that didn't do anything
> more.
>
> In short, this script doesn't seem to be getting called. (~/data does
> not get updated. However, if I run "./ipinfo 127.0.0.1 > data" in my
> home directory, that works!"
>
> I'd appreciate ANY thoughts/ideas/etc.
You need the 970701 archive:
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970701.tar.gz
The archives before that didn't execute shell commands in auto
mode...... sorry.
> TIA,
> John Szumowski
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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