Re: [gentoo-dev] PPTP Tunnel init.d script

[Ricardo Loureiro]

Hi chris,

If I understood your problem correctly, you need to make sure that your script runs after eth0 goes up and before everything else. If that's the case, the solution is simple:

Take a look at the Gentoo Linux rc-script Guide, specially this section:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml#doc_chap5

Hope it helps.

Ricardo Loureiro

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:55:21 +1200
Chris Smith <chris.rs@×××××××.nz> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've recently set up my Gentoo server to access my nokia M1122 modem via pptp.
> Everything works sweet as, and it gives me the control over my internet
> connection that I need.
>
> The problem is, is when my server powers off, and powers on again, the tunnel
> will be lost and I'll have to start it manually. I thought the
> /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 script may have some kind of support for it, but it
> doesn't. The command that needs to be run is "pptp-command start M1122", but
> I would like it to be part of the Gentoo init system.
>
> So I set out with my _very_ basic bash skills and tried to impliment my own.
> And I failed (I really need to learn bash better :). The Gotcha's are that it
> has to load after my net.eth0 script, but before any of my network services
> start up (can't bind to a non-existant device).
>
> I found a nice walkthrough for a debian PC, but time is limited at the moment
> (assignments are piling up... :( Uni.) so I was just wondering if anybody had
> hacked up a solution for this.
>
> If not, I'll attempt it again in a week or two, and post the result here so
> you guys can get kicks from my bash scripting :D
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
>
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Ricardo Loureiro

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