PPP scripts
Hi,
I have a shell script that establishes a PPP connection. I have a ppp-on script that runs pppd and a ppp-on-dialer script that runs chat. I am getting confused here - 1) What processes should I look for to make sure that pppd and chat are running? I see /var/run/ppp0.pid sometimes, but sometimes its not there. There is also /var/run/pppd.tdb which doesn't go away irrespective of whether pppd is running or not. What is pppd.tdb file for? 2) What process corresponds to chat? 3) The ppp-on script starts ppp-on-dialer script. I run ppp-on script from my C function using system call. Using the following two lines, I can know the exit code of ppp-on. int ret = system("./ppp-on") printf("%d", WEXITSTATUS(ret)); But how can I know the return code of chat? This is how my chat script looks. exec chat -v -s ABORT 'RING' ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' AT TIMEOUT 3 OK ATD$TELEPHONE TIMEOUT 45 CONNECT '' 4) Is there a way of specifying the number of times chat should try to establish connection before returning failure? 5) Should ppp-off script just try to kill ppp0.pid or also kill pppd.tdb? Thanks for your help. Ruchika |
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