Why script ip-down.local is doing nothing?
Alexander Dalloz
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Wed Jul 27 11:50:33 UTC 2005
Am Mi, den 27.07.2005 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 13:09:+
> I have created a script in ip-down.local as follows on the advice of
> Mr.Alexander Dalloz on the list,
>
> [pbhat at sidharth ~]$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
> DATE=$(date +"%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S")
> # Format: date time onlinetime [s] bytes send bytes received
> /bin/echo $DATE $CONNECT_TIME $BYTES_SENT $BYTES_RCVD >>/var/log/ppp-usage
>
> I have also created an empty file in /var/log/ppp-usage.
>
> Now I expected this file to be updated each time connection went down.
> This doesn't seem to be happening. This file remains empty.
>
> If I issue command
>
> /sbin/echo $CONNECT_TIME
All variables are only available at pppd disconnect time. You can't
request the contend of $BYTES_SENT for instance during a ppp session.
> I get nothing. What I am missing here?
Paul's hint regarding SELinux context is good. For debugging purposes
you could too add a command to ip-down.local like (single command line,
probably wrapped in mail here):
/usr/bin/logger -t "PPP DEBUG" -p kern.debug "ppp went down after
$CONNECT_TIME seconds"
You then should find the logger notice in your system log
(/var/log/messages).
> Parameshwara Bhat
Alexander
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