From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 09:59:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13132 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13065 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zL95F-0005mE-00; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:45:05 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:45:05 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Frank Griffith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.linkup file won't execute command Message-ID: <19980921174505.A21618@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <012c01bde4fa$36069580$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <012c01bde4fa$36069580$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Griffith wrote: > I want to have my system e-mail my dynamically assigned > IP number each time I hook-up. So following some much > needed advice, I added this line to the MYADDR section > of my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file: > > !bg ifconfig tun0 | mail -s "My Latest IP Address" me@my_domain.com Do you have a space before the !bg ? I don't know if it's needed or not, but there are some in my ppp.linkup. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message