Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Wes Santee" <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> To: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Solution: Telling if User PPP is up or down Message-ID: <199602160811.AAA20475@wsantee.oz.net> In-Reply-To: <199602160655.WAA17072@wsantee.oz.net> from "Wes Santee" at Feb 15, 96 10:55:35 pm
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Wes Santee sez: > > Terry Lambert sez: > > Or "ifconfig tun0", and if it reports an "inet" line (if it doesn't, > > it has never been up), check it for 0.0.0.0 (and make sure it gets > > upt back correctly by pppd when it downs...). > > Someone else mentioned in e-mail to take a look at ifconfig and see > what it will tell me. I'll give it a shot. Well, that didn't do it, but upon further exploration of the PPP man page, it says that when the process is locking the com port, it creates a lock-file as /var/spool/lock/LCK..<com name> where <com name> is something like cuaa0, cuaa1, etc. As it turns out, when the link is up, the lockfile exists, and when the link is down, it is removed. Cheers, -- ( -Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> | ) ( <wsantee@oz.net> (backup) | No one told you when to run... ) ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee \------------------------------- ) ( finger for PGP info Powered by FreeBSD )
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