Re: Text output with ip-up...

[Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>]

DarkChyld [Ronald J. Hall] wrote:
>   Hi, I'm trying to use ip-up (and eventually ip-down) with my Mint setup.
>   Basically, I'm trying to output my logon stats (such as ip address) to a
>   text file /var/log/ip-log. Here is what I've done (but isn't working)

> $4 > /var/log/ip-log

Katherine L Ellis wrote:
> cat $LOCALIP >/var/log/ip-log

You probably want :

	echo $4 > /var/log/ip-log

If you have :

	$4 > /var/log/ip-log

the variable will be interpreted and the shell will try to run a command
with the name of your IP address and put the output from that into the
ip-log file.

If you have :

	cat $LOCALIP >/var/log/ip-log

the variable will be interpreted and cat will try to concatenate the file
with the name of your ip address.

You could also use :

	echo $4 >> /var/log/ip-log

if you don't want the file to be overwritten each time (probably not in
this case), or :

	echo $4 > /var/log/ip-log 2>&1

to get standard error to go into the file as well as standard out.

J

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