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emak

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Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 32

PPTP ip-up.d runs script but doesn't execute program

Hi everybody

I installed and configured PPTP and ip-up.d scripts. Everything seems to work, all three existing scripts are executed and also the echo is written to syslog but I don't get the program to start. If I execute the script manually it works like a charm.

What is the matter?

Solutions tried

• PATH definition added

• echo line before and after executing remmina added -> both worked

• changed program execution with "sudo -u <user> remmina" and "su <user> -c "remmina" etc. also not worked

• permissions checked, every script file is on 755

#!/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
echo "`date +%b" "%e" "%H":"%M":"%S` PPTP: Remmina wird gestartet" >> /var/log/syslog.log
/usr/bin/remmina

voidzero

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Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 109

Re: PPTP ip-up.d runs script but doesn't execute program

Look at ip-up and ip-down, it only executes scripts that end with '.sh'. Is that the case?
Does remmina fork? Or does it wait indefinitely? If it's the latter you can execute it as a separate process by adding &! at the end.

emak

Member

Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 32

Re: PPTP ip-up.d runs script but doesn't execute program

Hi, sorry for late answers:

..scripts that end with '.sh'. Is that the case?

[emak@PC-LE-T42-LI ip-up.d]$ ll
insgesamt 20K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 20. Mär 13:40 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K  6. Mär 07:16 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  229  3. Nov 2011  00-dns.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  110 16. Mai 18:45 01-remmina.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  162 20. Mär 13:23 02-routes.sh*

They should be correct and permissions sufficient.

Does remmina fork?

No, I don't see any procs running by executing

ps -ef | grep remmina

Last question:

you can execute it as a separate process by adding &!

I tried that with no better success.

As I wrote above, the script is executed, the echo line is written to syslog but no process of remmina is starting. I'm sure it's a dumb thing but still annoying... Any more ideas to try?