On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:16:13AM -0800, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why my ip-up script is not running.  I'm 
> using PPPoE for my ADSL connection protocol and I'm trying to run a 

Are you using in-kernel PPPoE, or one of the pppoe userland package ?

> dyndns.org site via this.  I'm using ddclient as my update agent and 
> using the prepackage ip-up script with modifications for my local 
> environment.  The troubleI'm having is that I can run the script 
> manually using Here's the script:
> #!/bin/sh
> ######################################################################
> ## $Header: /home/paul/src/ddclient/RCS/sample-etc_ppp_ip-up.local,v 
> 3.5 2001/08/25 14:22:00 root Exp root $
> ######################################################################
> ##
> ## On my host, pppd invokes this script with args:
> ## /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ppp0 /dev/pts/1 115200 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.3
> ##
> ## From the manual page for my pppd, these aguments are:
> ##   scriptname interface-name tty-device speed local-IP-address 
> remote-IP-address ipparam
> ##
> ## Some people have reported that their pppd returns their
> ## local-IP-address as $3.  If that's also the case for you,
> ## you may need to change the $4 below to $3.  This may not
> ## be necessary if you pppd also passes the local-ip-address
> ## in the environment as either PPP_LOCAL or IPLOCAL.
> ##
> ######################################################################
> PATH=/usr/sbin:/root/bin:${PATH}
> IP=
> IP=${IP:-$PPP_LOCAL}
> IP=${IP:-$IPLOCAL}
> IP=${IP:-$3}
> 
> ## update the DNS server unless the IP address is a private address
> ## that may be used as a internal LAN address (or PPtP tunnel).
> 
> logger -t ddclient $0 $*
> case "$IP" in
> 10.*)           ;;
> 172.1[6-9].* | 172.2[0-9].* | 172.31.*) ;;
> 192.168.*)      ;;
> "")             logger -t ddclient No local IP given so cannot update
>                 ;;
> *)              (
>                         sleep 5
>                         ddclient -daemon=0 -syslog -use=if 
> -if=$1 >/dev/null 2>&1
>                 ) &
>                 ;;
> esac
> As I understand this script, it just calls ddclient with the 
> arguments listed.  Why isn't this script running after being called 
> by the ppp process?  I can run the console echoed ip-up line manually 
> with no problems.
> 
> One thing I do notice is this line from my dmesg:
> starting local daemons:/usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/ddclient: WARNING: $ddclient 
> is not set properly.
> I would guess that a problem with this rc script is the 
> ${ddclient_flags} and ${command_args} variables since they don't seem 
> to get set anywhere in this script.  How can I fix those and the 
> above $ddclient not set properly?

Yes, in /etc/rc.conf add:
ddclient=NO

As ddclient should be called from ip-up don't start it at boot time.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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