Why script ip-down.local is doing nothing?

[Paul Howarth]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have created a script in ip-down.local as follows on the advice of  
> Mr.Alexander Dalloz on the list,
> 
> [pbhat at sidharth ~]$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
> DATE=$(date +"%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S")
> # Format: date  time  onlinetime [s]  bytes send   bytes received
> /bin/echo $DATE $CONNECT_TIME $BYTES_SENT $BYTES_RCVD >>/var/log/ppp-usage
> 
> I have also created an empty file in /var/log/ppp-usage.
> 
> Now I expected this file to be updated each time connection went down.  
> This doesn't seem to be happening. This file remains empty.
> 
> If I issue command
> 
> /sbin/echo $CONNECT_TIME
> 
> I get nothing. What I am missing here?

It's probably an SELinux issue. Try doing:

# setsebool pppd_disable_trans 1

and see if it works. This should get fixed in a policy update sometime soon.

Paul.