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Date:      Thu, 05 Mar 1998 19:14:00 -0500
From:      Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis@gte.net>
To:        Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Detecting state of PPP 
Message-ID:  <199803060014.TAA13234@gte.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Mar 1998 07:16:09 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980305071307.15655F-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za> 

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pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za wrote:

> How does one go about writing a program to check if a PPP link is up
> or down? 

I've seen lots of complicated responses to this, so there is probably 
something inherintly wrong with what I've always done, check for the
existence of the /var/spool/lock/LCK..cuaa? file.  If there is a possibility
that something else is using the serial line, one could check whether the
PID in the file matches the PPP process.

-Ben

-- 
Benjamin Lewis
bhlewis@gte.net		-or-  	   bhlewis@purdue.edu



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