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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Running function or command concurrently in a bash script Post 302278092 by dj_bridges on Monday 19th of January 2009 09:00:01 AM
Old 01-19-2009
CPU & Memory Running function or command concurrently in a bash script
I currently run a script over a vpnc tunnel to back-up my data to a remote server. However for a number of reasons the tunnel often collapses. If I manually restore the tunnel then the whole thing can continue, but I want to add into my script a section whereby while the transfer is taking place, the system checks if the tunnel is still up and if not it resets it. I though I had it cracked (see below), but even though the $BREAK variablet change after the process code had run, it didn't escape the while loop so the script never ended. I therefore think I need a different way of doing it (by the way I am new to scripting so expect some ugly code).....

I am not asking someone to write this for me, but if you know of a function that I could use that would be most helpful..... Thanks in advance.....

Code:
function process ()
{
process code.....
BREAK=500
}

# ------------- the script itself --------------------------------------
BREAK=0

# First run Tunnel to get it up and running (a separate script).
Tunnel.sh

# Run process and the while loop at the same time.
process &
while [ $BREAK == 0 ]
do
   Tunnel.sh #Re-establishes connection if required
   sleep 15
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

nos-tun

NOS-TUN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						NOS-TUN(8)

NAME

     nos-tun -- implement ``nos'' or ``ka9q'' style IP over IP tunnel

SYNOPSIS

     nos-tun -t tunnel -s source -d destination -p protocol_number [source] target

DESCRIPTION

     The nos-tun utility is used to establish an nos style tunnel, (also known as ka9q or IP-IP tunnel) using a tun(4) kernel interface.

     Tunnel is the name of the tunnel device /dev/tun0 for example.

     Source and destination are the addresses used on the tunnel device.  If you configure the tunnel against a cisco router, use a netmask of
     ``255.255.255.252'' on the cisco.	This is because the tunnel is a point-to-point interface in the FreeBSD end, a concept cisco does not
     really implement.

     Protocol number sets tunnel mode.	Original KA9Q NOS uses 94 but many people use 4 on the worldwide backbone of ampr.org.

     Target is the address of the remote tunnel device, this must match the source address set on the remote end.

EXAMPLES

     This end, a FreeBSD box on address 192.168.59.34:

	   nos-tun -t /dev/tun0 -s 192.168.61.1 -d 192.168.61.2 192.168.56.45

     Remote cisco on address 192.168.56.45:

	   interface tunnel 0
	   ip address 192.168.61.2 255.255.255.252
	   tunnel mode nos
	   tunnel destination 192.168.59.34
	   tunnel source 192.168.56.45

AUTHORS

     Nickolay N. Dudorov <nnd@itfs.nsk.su> wrote the program, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> wrote the man-page.  Isao SEKI
     <iseki@gongon.com> added a new flag, IP protocol number.

BUGS

     We do not allow for setting our source address for multihomed machines.

BSD
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