Why script ip-down.local is doing nothing?

[Alexander Dalloz]

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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