[aclug-L] Getting by with a little help from my friends...

["Matt Pankratz" <mattp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

Anyone able to offer some suggestions to a friend's quandry below? (Much
Appreciated)

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Hey Matt,

I'm happily running SuSE 8.0. whoohoo!  suse rocks.

However, I have a little problem, and as my Madison LUG server seems to
be blowing chunks, I thought I'd hit you up for a little advice.

Here's the thing: With my cable modem service I need to establish a VPN
connection to the university.  I can do this just fine.  However, I want
to automate the process, so I wrote a tiny little script to run the two
/sbin/route commands and the pptp client command.  My script consists of
the following:

#!/bin/sh

/sbin/route add -host 12.24.207.58 gw 10.44.124.1 dev eth0
/sbin/route del default
/usr/bin/pptp doit-cable name soisaac_3

exit 0

I put the script in /etc/init.d, and made a symbolic link to it from
/etc/init.d/rc5.d (naming the link S12pptp-connect).  I reboot, and the
system seems not to have executed it.  There's no entry of it in the
boot log.  Would you have any inkling what's going on?  The script
works--if I type "sh /etc/init.d/pptp-connect" in the terminal (as
root).  ???  Is there something wrong with the name of my link, that it
doesn't get run?
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