G'Day,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Mark Carey wrote:

> Anyway there is one thing I would like to fix, I need to find a bash command
> to wait for a period of time between the line,
> /usr/sbin/pptp 192.168.1.250
> and the bringing up of iptables any suggestions?
try 'sleep <period>' eg. sleep 1 to wait 1 second....
although you may want to combine it with a while loop so that it checks
every second if the link is back up, when it is it exists (while
<condition>; do <commands>; done)

alothough my attempts with pppd/pptp just use the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
directory. I use that and the while loop in my script as I check to make
sure the modem exists using 'ping 10.0.0.138 -c 1' if its not beeps using
echo ^G>/dev/console and then sleeps 1 seconds and checks again.

while [ "'ping 10.0.0.138 -c 1|wc -l'" == 4 ]; do
  echo ^G>/dev/console
  sleep 1
done

> Any general critquing would also be greatly appreciated.
Hope that helps.

Cheereo,

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