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I had been using shimo to connect to my vpn and shimo has the ability to execute apps/scripts when the connection happens. I have moved to 10.6 and am now using the built in client. I don't see any way to execute apps/scripts when the built in client connects. Does anyone know if this can be done? If so please provide details. Thanks | ||||
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Well, as far as I remember, Shimo can you any of your excisting connections. If its 10.6 compatible, you could just use it for the triggering/scripting. If I'm wrong, sorry. That's just how it worked the last time I used it. //Ulrik | |||
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Use an ip-up (and an ip-down if needed) script in /etc/ppp, a quick article on macosxhints.com has a few details. | |||
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Use something like NetworkLocation to detect when you get the new IP address on your private network and trigger certain actions. To do it for free, you could run a cron job every minute to detect if you've got an ip address in the VPN and trigger an action the first time it sees it. | |||
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The right way to do this is with an ip-up script in /etc, but historically, this has not actually worked properly on OS X. I have not tried it since 10.4, but what I had to do as a workaround back then was setup a launchd job that watched /var/log/ppp.log for relevant (i.e. VPN-related) entries. I'd say both methods are worth a shot. | |||
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