Homemade laptop lojack: ping website early in boot process

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:00:10 -0500
"Chris Mohler" <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thoughts?  I'll need to come up with something better that supersedes
> NM, but I thought it would be a good place to start, and I can't seem
> to figure out what's going wrong...

For what it's worth, if you use dhcp you can do something like this ( I
use this to run my iptables script on connect )

Place a file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks  ( this runs as soon as
dhclient exits after obtaining the IP). In my case it reads:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 1  &&

/etc/iptables.up

... where /etc/iptables.up is my script.

I imagine a simple nc or ping command or whatever is needed would run
from such a file too. This is used in conjunction with Network Manager,
but I see no reason why it should not work if you have plain dhcp
running on boot.

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
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