G'day Tony, I'm the author of pptpconfig, and I am beginning to regret it. You've done some interesting things with what you've learned from it. You might not have known what the updetach option does ... check the pppd man page for that. Your final question was how to write a script to try the pppd command repeatedly. This is a shell question. One simple method is to write a shell loop, like this: #!/bin/sh while true; do pppd call myserver logfd 1 nodetach done The updetach is changed to nodetach, so that the pppd process does not exit until the connection is closed. If you used updetach in an inittab referenced script, you'd get too many processes. This is because init might start a new one since the process that started pppd had terminated. Have a look at my script http://quozl.linux.org.au/darcs/eee-maxon-bp3/usr/sbin/bp3 where I use pppd in a similar way. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
