[H-GEN] crontab question

[Timothy Hitchens [HiTCHO Group]]

On 13/12/04 12:33 PM, "Anthony Irwin" <anthonyi at toolboxsoftware.com.au>
wrote:

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> Hi guys,
> 
> I have set up a simple script to check if the Internet is running and
> connect to the Internet if it is not. The problem is if I run the script
> from a cron job it doesn't work, running it from the shell however works
> as I would expect
> 
> Below is the line in the root crontab
> 0,30 * * * * /root/scripts/checkpppstatus.sh
> 
> Below is the script
> #!/bin/bash
> /sbin/ifconfig|/bin/grep ppp0 || /usr/bin/pon
> 
> The computer is running on a Debian Woody system. Any suggestions would
> be greatly appreciated.

Why don't you just use persistent connection from ppp config?

 
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Timothy [HiTCHO] Hitchens